Technology innovation benign to environmental preservation is one of the key strategies to address sustainable development. Understanding the pattern of environmental technology innovation in a country is necessary for making policies and decisions in environment management. Temporal and spatial distribution of environmental patents was analyzed to identify innovation capability of environmenta...

Territoriality A patent is a legal document that specifies a technical invention. Patents are territorial and relate to a specific country and the same invention can therefore be patented in a number of countries. Usually, these patents have the same owner, and are related to one another by their process of application; if that is the case, they form a patent family. It is possible, however, fo...

Patents grant their owners the right to exclude others from practicing a claimed invention for a limited time. Whether patents actually protect the economic interests of their owners, provide incentive for innovation, and foster economic growth has been extensively debated. There are undisputedly, however, times when the same patents that may protect an entity’s exclusive interest in a claimed ...

the patents’ term prolongation through protecting the new detected uses is the problematic matter that has been seriously attended by the developed countries in recent years. iranian legislators’ uncertainty toward the subject within the respective legislatures illustrates the legal importance of taking a stance, which is consistent with the primary principles of patent law and international ob...

This report is both a summary and a critique of the article Invention and Inventivity Is a Random, Poisson Process: A Potential Guide to Analysis of General Creativity by John C. Huber from the Institute of Invention and Innovation. The article studies human creativity through measuring the number of patents issued to each individual inventor throughout his/her inventive career. By taking sampl...