Patent specifications consist of patent claims and detailed descriptions. While patent claims are the most important part of patent specifications, they are compositionally or combinationally described and difficult to read. By aligning patent claims with detailed description, the readability of patent claims can be improved because paraphrases for the claims can be found. In this paper, we pro...

This paper examines the administrative practices of the patent offices in sixty countries over a 150-year period, a little-explored arena where government bodies and private firms interact. Larger and wealthier countries where international trade is more important give patent applicants more options. In these nations, patent office administrators’ flexibility is often restricted and the respons...

The purpose of this article is to consider problematic issues regarding unfair competition in patent law, particular, trolling. For purpose, the concepts «patent trolling» and troll» were analyzed. Types trolls are also defined. signs peculiarities trolling Ukraine reasons for its spread established. manifestation competition, consisting abuse intellectual property rights, considered. Recommend...

Building on insights gained from interviewing administrators and patent examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), we collect and analyze a novel dataset on patent examiners and patent outcomes. This dataset is based on 182 patents for which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled on validity between 1997 and 2000. For each patent, we identify a USPTO ...

The creation of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is widely regarded as an improvement in the system of patent litigation in the United States. However, there is still support for the creation of a specialized patent court at the trial level. Much of the support for the creation of such a court derives from the argument that most judges have too little experience to be familiar with ...

Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents at the European Patent Office w...

Patent data have diversely technological information of any technology field. So, many companies have managed the patent data to build their R&D policy. Patent analysis is an approach to the patent management. Also, patent analysis is an important tool for technology forecasting. Patent clustering is one of the works for patent analysis. In this paper, we propose an efficient clustering method ...