Many software patents have become known by simply reading the patents in the patent databases. This is, however, a Gargantuan task and a more systematic and automatic method is needed when performing large scale legal and economic studies. Usually, software patents are identified as those patents that satisfy a simple query on the title and the specification of the patent itself. Typically, the...

I argue here that gene patents, and patented genetic tests based on them, are a very bad idea. First, I discuss whether genes can reasonably be the subject of patents in the first place; I maintain that the answer is no. Second, I explain how gene patents interfere with scientific progress, slowing down the development of new cures and treatments for genetic diseases.

We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United States in two ways. The first looks at the cumulative abnormal returns to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship between firms’ stock market value, t...

introduction: this study aimed to evaluate patents as well as high level researches including systematic reviews/meta-analyses and randomized controlled clinical trials (rct) published in scientific journals by iranians endodontic. materials and methods: the study started with targeted searches of pubmed as well as world intellectual property organization and united state patent and trademark o...

Patents have helped promote innovation for centuries, but the modern application of patents to the field of medicine raises legal and ethical questions. Patents covering pharmaceutical products and medical research tools are ubiquitous, and many discoveries described by such patents have contributed to the advancement of medical science. At the same time, when patent protection has been too bro...

Patents contain the significant amount of information. Biomedical text mining has received much attention in patents recently, especially in the medicinal chemistry domain. The BioCreative V.5.BeCalm tasks focus on biomedical entities recognition in patents. This paper describes our method used to create our submissions to the Chemical Entity Mention recognition (CEMP) and Gene and Protein Rela...

According to the economic theory of patents, patents are needed so that pioneer firm have time to recoup their sunk costs of research and development. The key element in the economic theory is that pioneer firms have large, hard to recoup, sunk costs. Yet patents are not awarded on the basis of a firm’s sunk costs. Patent law, in fact, ignores costs. The disconnect between patent law and patent...