Many, if not most, commercially available diabetes treatment products are protected by some form of intellectual property. This article discusses the development and commercialization of products in view of the state of intellectual property for the diabetes treatment market, with respect to possible discouragement, for some, from seeking patent protection or commercializing a new product under...

PURPOSE This investigation identifies patent applications published under the international Patent Convention Treaty between July 2010 and January 2011 in three significant fields of vascular risk management (arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, and aneurysms) and investigates whether the inventors have also published peer reviewed papers directly describing their claimed invention. RESULT...

This article investigates the interplay between formal standards, essential patents and informal industry alliances such as consortia and patent pools. Building upon more than 6.200 declarations of essential patents to major international Standard Development Organizations (SDO), we investigate how informal standardization consortia and patent pools influence the number and timing of patent dec...

We report a baby with an unusual umbilical cord swelling. On the antenatal scans, a cystic area within the umbilical cord near its insertion onto the abdominal wall was detected. Postnatally an unusually thick umbilical cord with a yellow fluid filled cyst at the base was noted. The fluid from the cyst was confirmed as urine and ultrasound confirmed patent urachus. The baby underwent a cystosco...

We report a case of retinal artery occlusion in a young adult in early pregnancy found to have a patent foramen ovale as the source of the embolism. This report suggests the importance of early cardiac investigation in such individuals.

The NHS has made patent safety a national priority. A particular challenge is to ensure that lessons are learned from clinical incidents and that individuals and agencies take corrective action. A structured approach for the investigation of clinical incidents in health care is introduced and an example of its application in a general practice setting is presented The framework was originally d...

While the use of statistics (particularly survey methods) in copyright and trademark matters continues to grow, statistics has seen far less use in patent cases. However, elementary statistics can be a powerful tool in investigation of patent liability as well. Of course, as in other fields where applied statistics are used, statistics are just as often misused. Our analysis illustrates how sta...

This paper presents the evaluation of a number of algorithm alternatives for content based retrieval from a database of technical drawings representing patents. The objective is to help patent evaluators in their quest for a possible patent bearing too much similarity with the one under investigation. To achieve this, we have devised a system where images (drawings) are represented using attrib...