The existing temporary protection system seems to protect patent applicants through royalties. In fact, due its emphasis on technology dissemination, pursuit of judicial efficiency, and lack relief for cost recovery during the duration, is ineffective. abnormal mode that holds “double given when a authorized no not authorized” provides larger room “submarine patent”. Concerning behavior “implem...

I provide a primer on six recent large-scale historical patent data sets for use in innovation research. discuss how each set is constructed, the types of information included each, and quality completeness each. Throughout, emphasize when our knowledge history invention dependent source used recommendations about which most likely to be best different contexts. Overall, these paint remarkably ...

Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified product—a literary or artistic work in the case of copy­ rights, an invention or productive process in the case of patents. Though these concepts are subsumed under the broader heading of “intelle c­ tual property,” they are not completely analogous ...

Claiming intellectual property for an invention by patents is a common way to protect ideas and technological advancements. However, patents allow only the protection of new ideas. Assessing the novelty of filed patent applications is a very time-consuming, yet crucial manual task. Current patent retrieval systems do not make use of all available data and do not explain the similarity between p...

Methods: A bibliographic study was carried out by consulting public online databases of patents, such as the United States Patent and Trademark office, World Intellectual Property Organization and the National Intellectual Property Institute; The following keywords were used: copaiba oil, renal function, kidney, kidney stones, matrix microparticles Copaifera langsdorffii and lithiasis. In this ...

I introduce and analyze an equilibrium model of invention, patenting and infringement under monopolistic competition. Profitable use of inventions requires adaptation to complementary technologies. With patents, a thicket of conflicting rights emerges and costly infringements occur. This taxes invention and lowers welfare. When an inventor may be a “troll”—patent without inventing—the rate of i...

This editorial presumes that DRM patents are a public policy issue which at the end of the value chain has an impact on the consumer experience with protected digital content. After a brief general characterization of the "social invention" called patents, DRM patents are addressed and open questions are raised which deserve further analysis. Surprisingly even seemingly simple questions like th...

In theory, patents are simple. In exchange for the right to control the application and use of a new invention, an inventor must disclose the details of the invention to the public. Because of this disclosure, patent applications can contain important and timely information on technical innovations. Often, applications also contain useful technical information that has either been withheld or h...