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Biotechnologies and patent law: The case of European Union

open access: yesЦифровое право, 2023
The rapid development of biotechnologies requires taking comprehensive steps to actualise and consolidate actions. In order to introduce new technologies into life in the most rapid and appropriate way, it is imperative to establish mechanisms and ...
A. I. Shcherbakova
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Exploring Family Relations between International Patent Applications

open access: yesBiomath, 2012
In the international system for granting patents for inventions, first patent filings can be followed by subsequent filings at other patent offices within one year. Each such group of related filings constitutes a patent family. Tests are developed as to
Peter Hingley
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Impacts of Establishment of Unitary Patent System in European Union [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2016
Undoubtedly, one of the most significant changes in the patent system is the recent EU Member States’ agreement on signing and approving the regulations concerning new unitary patent system.
Mehdi Zahedi   +2 more
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Modeling the Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain information related to the patent’s economic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novel citation measures which are ...
Harhoff, Dietmar, Wagner, Stefan
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Assessing the Morality of the Commercial Exploitation of Inventions Concerning Uses of Human Embryos and the Relevance of Moral Complicity: Comments on the EPO’s WARF Decision

open access: yesSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2010
In late 2008, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) reached a decision supporting the rejection of a patent application on human embryonic stem cells filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
Sigrid Sterckx and Julian Cockbain
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The Judicial Geography of Patent Litigation in Germany: Implications for the Institutionalization of the European Unified Patent Court

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be the pillar of a unified European patent enforcement system. Crucial to its success will be the harmonization of geographical variation in national jurisdictions.
Marius Zipf   +5 more
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Forecasting Artificial Intelligence Trends in Health Care: Systematic International Patent Analysis

open access: yesJMIR AI, 2023
BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI)– and machine learning (ML)–based medical devices and algorithms are rapidly changing the medical field.
Stan Benjamens   +3 more
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Enhanced Cooperation - the New Trend of the EU Development

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
The article is dedicated to implementation of the enhanced cooperation in the EU. Actually two such projects are шn progress (the law applicable to divorce and legal separation and unitary patent protection) and other two are under discussionffmandai ...
L. O. Babynina
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Measuring Patent Value Indicators with Patent Renewal Information

open access: yesJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2020
This paper attempts to fill a research gap of literature by constructing the dynamic model into which both ex ante and ex post patent value indicators are incorporated.
Joo Young Og   +4 more
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Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. Our empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model cap- tures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of patents
Aizcorbe   +42 more
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