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Keywords: protection of rights, intellectual property; patent, industrial design, invention,utility model, appeals chamber, patent trolling
 The right property is the leading drivingforce economy any state; therefore its legal requires proper legalregulation and constant improvement through adoption new laws, amendmentsto current acts, introduction innovations in judicial activity.On 21.07...

Ontology-based neural network for patent knowledge management in design collaboration Amy J. C. Trappey a , Charles V. Trappey b , Tzu-An Chiang c & Yi-Hsuan Huang a a Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management , National Tsing Hua University , Hsinchu , Taiwan b Department of Management Science , National Chiao Tung University , Hsinchu , Taiwan c National Taipei College o...

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)— which required US patent applications to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find that post...

BACKGROUND In a search for an effective anticancer therapy the R&D units from leading universities and institutes reveal numerous technologies in the form of patent documents. The article addressed comparative anticancer patent landscape and technology assessment of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR): India's largest R&D organisation with top twenty international public funded...

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time, I take into account ...