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 ...

The article points out the advantages of conducting agreements on purchase and sale intellectual property not individual patents, but a portfolio patents. A systematic analysis range valuation patent was conducted. mathematical explanation "maximum-minimum" values is given, as well separation actual market price substantiated. graphical stages life cycles given. Based proposed model, value basi...

In this paper, we propose a method to retrieve similar patent documents for a given patent and classify a given patent. We focus on the one of patents’ characteristics: “patents are structuralized by claims, purposes, effects, embodiments of the invention and so on.” In order to retrieve similar documents from target document set, some specific components to denote the so-called ‘semantic eleme...

In this Article, we propose a way to improve the workings of the patent system. Unlike most extant reform proposals that focus on the USPTO and the Federal Circuit and the procedures they employ, our proposal is conceptual in nature. We introduce two new intellectual property forms—“quasipatents” and “semi-patents.” Both forms are designed to mitigate the social costs of traditional patents by ...

A patent is a property right for an invention granted by the government to the inventor. Patents often have a high concentration of scientific and technical terms that are rare in everyday language. However, some scientific and technical terms usually appear with high frequency only in one specific patent. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic approach to Chinese word segmentation on patents wh...

We propose that searching for and transferring knowledge across divisions in a diversified firm can cultivate innovation. Using a sample of 211,636 patents from 1,644 companies during the period 1985–96, we find that the use of interdivisional knowledge positively affects the impact of an invention on subsequent technological developments. Furthermore, the positive effect of the use of interdiv...

A patent is a property right for an invention granted by the government to the inventor. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem. So patents often have a high concentration of scientific and technical terms that are rare in everyday language. The Chinese word segmentation model trained on currently available everyday language data sets performs poorly because it cannot ef...

We report the results of the first comparative study of the determinants and effects of patent oppositions in Europe and of reexaminations on corresponding patents issued in the United States. The analysis is based on a data set consisting of matched European Patent Office (EPO) and U.S. patents. Our analysis focuses on two broad technology categories—biotechnology and pharmaceuticals and compu...

International Co-Invention – characterized by patent applications where at least one of the co-inventor is foreign – has boomed in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 1990. A significant number of these patents arise out of various forms of R&D collaboration with multinationals. We explain this phenomenon, building on the concept of “idea gap” elaborated by Romer (1993): western multinationa...

This paper seeks to add to our understanding of how the creative process might affect patent value by investigating the possible effect of a further, as yet unexplored characteristic, “leisure time invention,” where the main insight leading to the invention emerges when the inventor is not engaged in paid work. Leisure time inventions, if mentioned in the literature at all, are disparaged as be...