Pharmaceutical; Trademark; Patents; News

A Manually Annotated Corpus of Pharmaceutical Patents

The language of patent claims differs from ordinary language to a great extent, which results in the fact that tools especially adapted to patent language are needed in patent processing. In order to evaluate these tools, manually annotated patent corpora are necessary. Thus, we constructed a corpus of English language pharmaceutical patents belonging to the class A61K, on which several layers ...

Does the U . S . Patent & Trademark Office Grant Too Many Bad Patents ?

Many believe the root cause of the patent system's dysfunction is that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO or Agency) is issuing too many invalid patents that unnecessarily drain consumer welfare. Concerns regarding the Agency's over-granting tendencies have recently spurred the Supreme Court to take a renewed interest in substantive patent law and have driven Congress to enact the first ma...

designing around patents in the pharmaceutical product development, case studies

2 The semiotic account of trademark doctrine and trademark culture

Semiotics is the study of signs and sign systems. While linguistics concerns itself specifically with human speech, semiotics investigates " the processes and effects of the production and reproduction, reception and circulation of meaning in all forms, used by all kinds of agent[s] of communication. " 1 Semiotic thought developed into its own distinctive field of inquiry in the late-nineteenth...

TAST-Trademark Application Assistant

In this paper, we introduce a novel Trademark Application Assistant (TAST) that aims to speed up the process of a successful trademark application. The core of TAST is a web-browser based integrated image content editing and similarity-based retrieval system accessing local and remote databases of coded trademark images. Potential users of TAST include the party that initiates a request for tra...