Patent infringement suit claims of inequitable conduct before the Patent Office and claims of patent misuse are staple affirmative defenses in patent practice. Defendants' frequent invocation of the inequitable conduct and patent misuse doctrines causes patentee-plaintiffs to consider the possibility that a court will find the patent unenforceable in accord with those doctrines. The authors of ...

In this paper register based family studies provide the motivation for linking a two-stage estimation procedure in copula models for multivariate failure time data with a composite likelihood approach. The asymptotic properties of the estimators in both parametric and semi-parametric models are derived, combining the approaches of Parner (2001) and Andersen (2003). The method is mainly studied ...

Telomere length (TL) is emerging as a biomarker for aging and survival. To evaluate factors influencing this trait, we measured TL in a large homogeneous population, estimated the heritability (h(2)), and tested for parental effects on TL variation. Our sample included 356 men and 551 women, aged 18-92 years, from large Amish families. Mean TL in leukocytes was measured by quantitative PCR (mea...

The area of our research is the phenomenon of social influence process and the role of person's and group's mentality in the conflict. Conflict implies the existence of at least two sides or parties, majority and minority (by its number, territory, resources and etc.). Until now the role of majority in social influence process was mainly studied considering the existing numerous psychological r...

Many methods have been developed to recognize those progresses of technologies, and one of them is to analyze patent information. And visualization methods are considered to be proper for representing patent information and its analysis results. However, current visualization methods for patent analysis patent maps have some drawbacks. Therefore, we propose an alternative visualization method i...

Motivation Motivation l / • Systematic evaluation in NLP / IR is crucial – Large Test Collections are needed • We have produced test collections for p patent retrieval at NTCIR since 2001 – What is the next task for patent What is the next task for patent information? 2 History of Patent IR at NTCIR y • NTCIR-3 (2001-2002) T h l 2 years of JPO patent li ti * – Technology survey • Applied conven...

The use of survival time models with non-proportional hazard functions is introduced as a method of studying age of onset effects in family studies. Statistical methods for investigating non-proportionality of the hazard function are described, and the application of these methods is illustrated using data from a family study of depression to investigate transmission of age of onset between pro...

The purpose of this paper was to review the theoretical underpinnings, major concepts, and methods of the typological approach. It was argued that the typological approach offers a systematic, empirically rigorous and reliable way to synthesize the nomothetic variable-centered approach with the idiographic case-centered approach. Recent advances in cluster analysis validation make it a promisin...

More than 20 different leukocyte or tissue antigens can presently be recognized; they belong to one complex system (HL-A) which is, from the genetic point of view, very similar to the H-2 system in the mouse. Another independent system consisting of two antigens has also been well defined, the Group Five system. The methods of defining these antigens, their tissue distri bution, and complex rel...

Abstract This paper builds a patent-based knowledge graph, patent-KG, to represent the facts in patents for engineering design. The arising patent-KG approach proposes new unsupervised mechanism extract patent, by searching attention graph language models. extracted entities are compared with other benchmarks criteria of recall rate. result reaches highest 0.8 rate standard list mechanical rela...