Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic growth, its role in shaping patterns inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels across two industrial revolutions United States, this paper provides new evidence a relationship between highly disruptive forms innovation and spatial inequality. Using universe patents granted 1920 2010 by US Paten...

In this paper, we present a visualization of the demography of U.S. University patenting activities between 1969 and 2000 at twenty universities producing the highest number of patents during the same time period. Extracting patents granted to U.S. universities from the United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] PATSIC, CONAME and Inventor datasets, we analyze the data to explore the rel...

Patent management is increasingly important for organizations to sustain their competitive advantage. The classification of patents is essential for patent management and industrial analysis. In this study, we propose a novel patent network-based classification method to analyze query patents and predict their classes. The proposed patent network, which contains various types of nodes that repr...

European Patent Office (EPO) practice, guided by the European Patent Convention (EPC) is in many aspects very similar to Europe's national patent practice, such as the German patent law. In this article, the US practitioner is briefly reminded of some of the considerable differences between US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent prosecution practice and its European counterparts, primari...

We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO). Our analyses of fractionalized inventorships demonstrate that women's rate of patenting has increased from 2.7% of total patenting activity to 10.8% over the nearly 40-year period...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) has provided a large amount of sequence information about the human genome. One type of sequence information obtained relates to expressed sequence tags (ESTs), i.e. partial DNA sequences of expressed genes. These ESTs are usually between 300 and 500 nucleotides in length. In many cases the sequence is unique to a degree that allows the identification of the corre...

The infringements and suits of patents have been increased in many technological fields. Since a patent is an intellectual property to protect inventors’ exclusive rights of developed technologies, technological pre-occupancy is very important to the development of companies. For the technological pre-occupancy a patent registration time is surely important. In this paper we propose a predictiv...

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar um estudo prospectivo sobre a utilização do licopeno, com atividade antitumoral comprovada em literatura, adição outras drogas antitumorais no combate ao câncer. Para tanto, foram realizadas pesquisas nos bancos de dados patentes INPI, USPTO, Espacenet e WIPO, bem artigos científicos nas bases PubMed, Web of ScienceTM, Scopus Scielo, o uso palavras...

Abstract The growing environmental pressure and the parallel policy push on eco-innovations are making generation of green technologies more profitable, given expansion existing markets creation new ones. MNEs may show a competitive advantage in this context because their global knowledge sourcing strategies that increase heterogeneity variety firms’ innovation processes. We accordingly argue i...