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...

In the past few years, the statistical relational learning (SRL) community has recognized the importance of combining the strengths of statistical learning and relational learning (also known as inductive logic programming (ILP)), and developed several novel representations, as well as algorithms to learn their parameters and structure. However, the problem of statistical predicate invention (S...