Follow the (Industry) Money – The Impact of Science Networks and Industry-to-University Contracts on Academic Patenting in Nanotechnology and Biotechnology

We investigated the factors influencing an academic's propensity to patent and the quality of patenting in nanotechnology and biotechnology. We found that a university researcher is more likely to be listed as an inventor of a patented innovation, regardless of the assignee, if he receives private funding, has a fairly high level of cliquishness in the scientific network and has shown a prior capacity to successfully collaborate with industry, a concept that we named innovation loops. Furthermore, citation rate and number of claims, which are used to represent patent quality, are influenced by factors similar to those explaining patent quantity.     

我国油田用钻井液处理剂的技术现状及专利分析

介绍了我国油田用钻井液处理剂的种类和应用情况,并对其中的钻井液用降滤失剂的国内外专利技术进行了详细介绍。从时间分布、专利权人构成以及技术构成等方面对这些专利的态势进行了分析对比,并对今后我国钻井液处理剂技术的发展提出了建议。     

从美国合成孔径雷达专利看其技术研发特点

为了解美国合成孔径雷达(SAR)技术研发特点,对美国SAR相关专利进行检索和筛选,了解其主要研究力量、研究方向和政府资助领域等情况,并对重点专利开展技术手段分析。结果表明:美国SAR技术的主要研究力量是雷锡恩公司、桑迪亚公司、洛马公司、哈里斯公司和波音公司等企业,其研究范围涉及双基地或多基地SAR、干涉SAR、逆SAR和聚束SAR等技术;在具体技术方面,SAR成像质量的提高仍然是美国SAR技术最重要的研究方向,其次是SAR目标识别技术,再次是轻质小型低成本技术。     

从国内外专利看我国蛭石开发利用与世界的差距

介绍了蛭石的性质及国内外蛭石利用专利情况，分析了在应用领域、产品品种、加工处理方法等方面我国与国外的差距。     

The face of the patent is not the “Whole Story”: determining effective life of a pharmaceutical patent in the United States

This article provides an overview of the factors that may contribute to the effective term of protection for a pharmaceutical product in the USA––by patent and by FDA market exclusivities, identifies public and commercial sources for collecting relevant patent term and exclusivity data, and provides a strategy for ensuring that the effective term of protection has been calculated accurately.     

三星公司在OLED领域的中国专利布局初探

OLED技术是显示领域的热点技术,国内企业在加大研发力度的同时,将面临如何进行专利布局以有效保护研究成果的问题.本文重点探讨了三星公司在OLED领域的中国专利申请情况及其特点.通过专利状况分析,对研究OLED行业的发展趋势以及使国内相关企业做好专利防范具有重要的参考意义.     

专利制度对企业的作用

对专利制度在企业生存和发展中的作用进行了较系统的分析,揭示了企业要想在激烈的市场竞争中立于不败之地,就必须运用专利制度来保护自身的优势和增强自身的竞争能力.     

Electric vehicle technology in China: An exploratory patent analysis

Currently, the electric vehicle (EV) technology is of great interest in China and around the world. This paper first conducts a comprehensive review of China's EV policies and the development of China's EV technology, and then analyzes the domestic performances of China's EV technology and its international competitiveness by adopting the recently developed concept of transnational patents. The results show an outstanding performance for China's EV technology in the domestic market, but a relatively poor performance in the international markets. Finally, several main factors causing the inconsistent performance of China's EV technology are proposed and discussed.     

European patents for biotechnological inventions – past, present and future

It is now well accepted that although biotech inventions may relate to living materials it is possible to secure patent protection for all but a limited number in certain defined categories. The author traces the development of biotech patents from the early days, when decisions of the Courts and the EPO set the necessary precedents, to the adoption of the European Directive in July 1998. He then goes on to explain in more detail the key features of the Directive and refers to a number of precedent decisions which, in combination with the Directive, show how certain problem areas have been tackled. Although emphasis is placed on the key areas of plant and animal patents, the patenting of gene sequences and issues of morality the author stresses that the established principles of novelty, inventive step and industrial application are, more often than not, adequate to decide the patentability of the vast majority of biotech inventions.