A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths m...

This paper contains the research plan that will analyze the context and type of internet inventions that have been used to extend the lifetimes of legacy systems. Certain types of legacy systems, or certain types of internet inventions, may be more amenable to extending the life of a legacy system. It is anticipated that this analysis will result in a framework or model that tabulates such type...

EU 98/44 Article 4 1. The following shall not be patentable: (a) plant and animal varieties; (b) essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals. 2. Inventions which concern plants or animals shall be patentable if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety. 3. Paragraph 1(b) shall be without prejudice to the paten...

Museum technology is perpetually changing due to current requirements and added inventions for our comfort and furbished display of specimens. Hence numerous methods of specimen preservation have been put on trial by diverse people in the medical feld as are the inventions. But only few have caught people's interest and are popularized today. This part provides unique insights into specialized ...

Depictions, such as maps, that portray visible things are ancient whereas graphics, such as charts and diagrams, that portray things that are inherently not visible, are relatively modern inventions. An analysis of historical and developmental graphic inventions suggests that they convey meaning by using elements and space naturally. Elements are based on likenesses, "figures of depiction" and ...

Using patent citations as a proxy for the influence of foreign technology on French firms’ patents, this paper finds that the inventions of importers are significantly more likely to be influenced by foreign technology than are the inventions of firms that do not import. Furthermore, importers’ citations increase relative to similar firms after they start importing. Exporting, in contrast, is n...

The paper introduces a model in which complementary monopoly inventors follow quantity-setting strategies and and engage in bilateral negotiation with licensees. The main result of the analysis is that non-cooperative equilibrium with quantity-setting inventors generates prices that correspond to the cooperative outcome. This di¤ers from Cournot’s classic result that noncooperative competition ...

Patent is an industrial property right granted by the government of a state to patentee. It intangible, incorporeal and exclusive under Law invention. While invention something that has never been made or existed before. Patents are inventions, but not every qualify for grant patent, hence there patentable non-patentable inventions. An if it new, results from inventive activity capable applicat...

Drag and drop operation is one of the key capabilities of any Graphical User Interface. The user can do quite complex operations simply by visually dragging and dropping objects from one location to another. It saves user from remembering and typing a lot of commands. The result of a drag and drop operation may vary depending the type of source object and type of destination object. For example...