As the frontier of scientific and technological innovation, universities will produce a large number patents based on their talent, technology resource advantages. How to evaluate value university in more efficient manner is great significance improving research innovation capability promoting transfer transformation patents. Firstly, combined with characteristics definition “high-value patents...

We study the evolution of technology as reflected in the US utility patents granted in the period 1976-2009. Previous work by Skusa and Bedau (2002) and Buchanan et al. (2010) used cumulative citation statistics to identify the inventions that most affect the course of evolution (those with the highest innovative impact). Here we examine the text of patent records (specifically, titles and abst...

The patent system aims at protecting inventions. The requirement that a software invention should make ‘a technical contribution’ turns out to be untenable in practice and this raises the question what constitutes an invention in the realm of software. We develop the Software Invention Cube (SWIC), a classification of software inventions and use this classification to explore the meaning of the...

Are patents a tool for promoting the development of medical treatments for patients or merely a roadblock to access to health care? This is a perennial question to which there are often strenuous opinions. This Symposium Issue complements the Second Annual Beazley Symposium on Access to Health Care, "Perspectives on Patents and Patients: Can They Coexist?," by providing a variety of perspective...

Invention and identity Members of social groups may be more likely to patent inventions targeted toward their own group's needs interests. Koning et al. examined US biomedical patents found that although fewer women engage in commercial patenting compared with men, are focus on women's health (see the Perspective by Murray). In an evaluation articles, researchers were also make scientific disco...

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading rapidly in many technology areas, and AI inventions may help climate change mitigation adaptation. Previous studies of climate-related mainly rely on expert literature, not large-scale data. Here I present an approach to track the relation between economy-wide scale. Analysis over 6 million US patents, 1976 2019, shows that within referred most...

This paper gives insight into our current research on three text mining tools for patents designed for information professionals. The first tool identifies numeric properties in the patent text and normalises them, the second extracts a list of keywords that are relevant and reveal the invention in the patent text, and the third tool attempts to segment the patent’s description into it’s sectio...