What a patent grants

Applications , grants and the value of patent

Patenting strategy, technological diversity, domestic and international R&D collaborations and/or coapplications, and the mix of designated states for protection ‘also’ affect the value of patents.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

What is Patent Quality?

What do Inventors Patent

Legal disputes, such as the Blackberry case, suggest that patent rights may become vital to the economic survival of even the most successful innovations. Although it is obvious that inventors do not choose to patent all their innovations, what or why they patent is poorly understood. This paper introduces a new data set of more than 7,000 American and British innovations at three world’s fairs...

Patent ductus arteriosus in a lamb: A case report

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a persistent patency of a vessel normally present in the fetus that connects the pulmonary arterial system to the aorta. The ductus arteriosus fails to close at birth when breathing commences and placental blood circulation is removed. Closure of the ductus arteriosus arises in response to decline pulmonary vascular resistance and increased systemic vascular re...

A “what if” analysis for sound financial management decisions in Romanian European Social Fund grants evaluation

European Commission trusted for implementation the European Social Fund (ESF) to Member States through a commonly agreed decentralized management system, including compliance to the “sound financial management” principle within the Members’ State designated Authorities obligations. While implementing ESF, Romania should comply too with this principle all projects cycle life: national ESF progra...