maintaining the patent(s), and the income derived from owning that/those patents. Similarly the economics of whether to seek a patent present similar...

types of patents. Particular types of patents for inventions include biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents and software patents. Although...

Enforcement by patent trolls of poor quality patents has led to criticism of the patent office as well as the system itself. Patents on pharmaceuticals...

computer-implemented inventions. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. The opponents to software patents have gained more visibility with fewer resources...

essential patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Determining which patents are essential to a particular standard can be complex. Patent ambush...

suggests, that the patent owners identify in advance, which patents they intend to list in the Orange Book, and have these patents examined by USPTO's...

applicability of patents to substances and processes wholly or partially natural in origin is a subject of debate. Business method patent – includes patents on new...

software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can be...

A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. This concept has negative...

competent for adjudicating patent infringement of national patents, national parts of European patents and Eurasian patents when the infringement takes...

the patents included in the agreement. This benefits competition by allowing each more freedom to design products covered by the other's patents without...

Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law. The field emerged in the United States...

United States, the Patent and Trademark Office issues patents that give the holder of the patent exclusive, defined property rights to their product for...

patents". The Recorder. "When Patents Attack". NPR. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2012. Galante, Suzanne (8 July 1997). "Trend Micro wages patent war"...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

Of those, 6,242 were patent examiners (almost all of whom were assigned to examine utility patents; only 99 were assigned to examine design patents)...

genes cannot be patented. Per Canada's Patent Act, patents are granted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Patents will only be granted...

In economics, profit is the difference between revenue that an economic entity has received from its outputs and total costs of its inputs, also known...

Statute of Monopolies (21 Jas. 1. c. 3) was an act of the Parliament of England notable as the first statutory expression of English patent law. Patents evolved...

development effort. Patents provide a temporary monopoly on a product to the first inventor or firm which comes up with the product. Patents vary in length...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

of the US economy, the strong pro-patentee legal regime and over 200 years of case law make US patents more valuable and more litigated than patents of...

possible for part of the unitary territory. The unitary patent may coexist with nationally enforceable patents ("classical" patents) in the non-participating...

A patent portfolio is a collection of patents owned by a single entity, such as an individual or corporation. The patents may be related or unrelated...

the economic value of patents is a critical factor in order to define their trading conditions. Valuation of patent rights is one of the main activities...

A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters...

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

count patents that has since been adopted by institutions such as the National Science Foundation. He started as an assistant professor in economics of innovation...

in the Chocolate Manufacture as Part of Polish Confectionery Industry. Wrocław University of Economics. US patent 9107430B2, Dumarche, Arnaud; Troplin...

Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance...