Patent classifications as indicators of intellectual organization

A Comparative Study on Patent Attorney in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Chemical Engineering Software and Legal Protection Thereof

In recent years, an increasing number of Chemical Engineering Software (CES), which play an important role in improving efficiency in the petroleum industry, has been introduced to the                market. Generally, software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy.  This paper explores the ...

Managing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) intellectual property rights: the possible role of patent pooling.

Patent applications that incorporate the genomic sequence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, have been filed by a number of organizations. This is likely to result in a fragmentation of intellectual property (IP) rights which in turn may adversely affect the development of products, such as vaccines, to combat SARS. Placing these patent rights into a patent pool to be ...

A Predictive Model for Patent Registration Time Using Survival Analysis

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...

OECD Economic Studies No. 40

INTERNATIONAL LICENSING AND THE STRENGTHENING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DURING THE 1990S ........................ 7 Walter G. Park and Douglas Lippoldt This paper assesses the effect of strengthened intellectual property rights in developing countries on international licensing activity. The analysis draws on indicators for four dimensions of intellectual property ...