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Publication date: 1 September 1987

Charles D. Moss and Ann Evans

Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the…

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Are companies effectively protecting new product ideas by using the patent system? Company awareness of the need to use the system to protect new ideas/concepts is focused on, the practical benefits accruing to companies when patents are obtained are discussed, and the necessity for companies to search patent information already in existence is referred to. Comments are made about the present system, with observations on how the recent White Paper, “Intellectual Property and Innovation” presages changes in the patent system law.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 87 no. 9/10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 1 January 1986

R.F. Lipscomb

There is growing evidence that, with some notable exceptions, the use of patents to gain or protect market objectives is not successful in industry today.

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There is growing evidence that, with some notable exceptions, the use of patents to gain or protect market objectives is not successful in industry today.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 6 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0275-6668

Article
Publication date: 1 January 1992

Richard Garner

Discusses the factors that have contributed to the increasedawareness and use of patents as sources of scientific and technicalinformation. Examines the problems the growth in the…

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Discusses the factors that have contributed to the increased awareness and use of patents as sources of scientific and technical information. Examines the problems the growth in the number of patents has caused for traditional paper storage, the use of microform and CD‐ROM as solutions, and other patent services offered by the British Library. Concludes that the volume of patent documents has been a factor in the neglect of a valuable information source in the past, new services are helping disseminate the information more widely.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 20 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

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Article
Publication date: 1 February 1988

BRENDA M. RIMMER

Many abstract journals include patent specifications in their coverage thereby providing references to the most up‐to‐date sources of information which might otherwise be ignored…

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Many abstract journals include patent specifications in their coverage thereby providing references to the most up‐to‐date sources of information which might otherwise be ignored by technicians in smaller enterprises and by students. A survey of some of these journals shows that while many do provide good coverage and indexing, the selection criteria for the patent specifications are sometimes questionable and bibliographic details are inaccurate or misleading. Standards for the identification of patent documents have been developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization and are in world‐wide use by patent offices. Their adoption by abstract journals is strongly recommended.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 44 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 March 1988

Michael W Hill

Despite their daunting reputation, patent documents, or copies of them, are in fact remarkably easy to acquire. Although some million patent specifications are published each year…

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Despite their daunting reputation, patent documents, or copies of them, are in fact remarkably easy to acquire. Although some million patent specifications are published each year for approximately half that number of new inventions, confusion is in general avoided because of the influence of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which enables the 40 patent offices to work together in the cause of universal availability, to standardize their documents and to designate them uniquely. The somewhat complicated publication sequence and numbering systems of patents, both in the UK and overseas, are explained. There are many sources of supply for published patent specifications, both national and international, public and private sector, to meet varying needs, whether document or information‐centred. Amongst these are the patent offices (both national and international), regional sub‐offices, national technical libraries, depository centres and various private sector services. Finally, a reminder is given that the Science Reference and Information Service is itself a specialist both in the supply of patent documents and in information about them.

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Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 16 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-1615

Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 September 2015

Outlook for the global patent system.

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB205546

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 1 December 1958

NICHOLAS J. FLOWER

I have the greatest admiration for those in the Patent Office and for those members of Aslib who have to concern themselves with problems of classification. The theory and…

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I have the greatest admiration for those in the Patent Office and for those members of Aslib who have to concern themselves with problems of classification. The theory and practice of solving such problems, which no doubt occupy many members of Aslib, are of the greatest public importance. I have the greatest sympathy for the Patent Office in their efforts to overcome these problems, but members of the public who have to use the facilities of the Patent Office also deserve sympathy, for the system is as difficult to use as it was to devise. That remark is in no way meant to be disrespectful to Mr. de Bray and his colleagues. On the contrary, Patent Agents, members of the public and others who have to use the Patent Office Library find a system available to them which is based on something which has been devised for the purposes of the Patent Office only, namely, the checking to see whether inventions are really new ones.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 10 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

Article
Publication date: 30 August 2011

Naoki Shibata, Yuya Kajikawa and Ichiro Sakata

This paper seeks to propose a method of discovering uncommercialized research fronts by comparing scientific papers and patents. A comparative study was performed to measure the

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Purpose

This paper seeks to propose a method of discovering uncommercialized research fronts by comparing scientific papers and patents. A comparative study was performed to measure the semantic similarity between academic papers and patents in order to discover research fronts that do not correspond to any patents.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors compared structures of citation networks of scientific publications with those of patents by citation analysis and measured the similarity between sets of academic papers and sets of patents by natural language processing. After the documents (papers/patents) in each layer were categorized by a citation‐based method, the authors compared three semantic similarity measurements between a set of academic papers and a set of patents: Jaccard coefficient, cosine similarity of term frequency‐inverse document frequency (tfidf) vector, and cosine similarity of log‐tfidf vector. A case study was performed in solar cells.

Findings

As a result, the cosine similarity of tfidf was found to be the best way of discovering corresponding relationships.

Social implications

This proposed approach makes it possible to obtain candidates of unexplored research fronts, where academic researches exist but patents do not. This methodology can be immediately applied to support the decision making of R&D investment by both R&D managers in companies and policy makers in government.

Originality/value

This paper enables comparison of scientific outcomes and patents in more detail by citation analysis and natural language processing than previous studies which just count the direct linkage from patents to papers.

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1972

K.M. Saunderson

I must start my paper with two disclaimers. Firstly, I will not be concerned with the legal aspects of patents other than as these may arise in the context of a discussion of the…

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I must start my paper with two disclaimers. Firstly, I will not be concerned with the legal aspects of patents other than as these may arise in the context of a discussion of the reasons why patents are an important source of technical information and the ways in which the information that they contain can be utilized.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

Article
Publication date: 1 June 2004

Paul Casey and Michael Pecht

This paper presents the analysis of information collected from numerous patent searches on lead‐free alloys. The significance of claim structure and content is discussed in view…

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This paper presents the analysis of information collected from numerous patent searches on lead‐free alloys. The significance of claim structure and content is discussed in view of the growing number of lead‐free patents. Patent analysis software was developed to effectively compare over 350 lead‐free alloy patents. A case study was conducted to assess Sn‐Ag‐Cu and special purpose lead‐free candidate alloy intellectual property. The results show that there are a number of patents and patent applications that may affect the use of “popular” Sn‐Ag‐Cu formulations.

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Circuit World, vol. 30 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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