a r t i c l e i n f o We investigate how a deferred patent examination system promotes ex-ante screening of patent applications, which reduces both the number of granted patents and the use of economic resources for examinations, without reducing the return from R&D. Based on a real option theory, we develop a model of examination request behaviors. Exploiting the responses of Japanese firms to...

32 MAY 2013 healthcare financial management The patent is a secondary rather than a primary patent, and the court rejected it as not being a novel invention because Novartis had patented a version of Gleevec in 1993, which it later abandoned. The focus on how innovative the secondary patent is relative to the first patent has potentially large ramifications for biologics, where innovations may ...

This paper presents development of a trend-based patent alert system (PAS) to find out current trends in patents on industrial technologies. Patent count data based on number of patents filed in specified duration is considered an indicator to define current trend. PAS retrieves data of associated patent counts using extended markup language (XML). Trend extraction algorithm is developed based ...