BibSonomy publications for /tag/patentFri Jan 13 15:16:01 CET 20122WO2007018904A2Releasible attachment system for a prosthetic limb, {Patent WO2007018904A2}Schutzrecht2007osseointegration patent 15Thu Dec 22 11:51:38 CET 2011Technological Forecasting and Social Changecited By (since 1996) 071183-1199A New Comprehensive Patent Analysis Approach for New Product Design in Mechanical Engineering782011New Overall Patent Patents Product Technology Technology-based, analysis; and citation citation; design, design; development, development; efficiency; family; intellectual inventions; performance; product property rights; searching; technical technology This study proposes a five-phase procedure for a new product design process. Based on the concept of "focus first, then extend", this study presents a new approach called the New Comprehensive Patent Analysis model (NCPA) which combines the patent family with patent citation analysis in a new product design process. The procedure includes the following features: (1) integrating the perspective of management-based and technology-based design for patent searching, (2) building a patent family based on industry basic patents, (3) filtering the patent family to obtain key patents, (4) utilizing patent citations to gain necessary technology information in product development design, and (5) combining TRIZ theory to construct patent technology performance maps, and to discover product niches. This NCPA model is empirically applied in a real case. The results show that the NCPA improves the overall efficiency of new product designs, but also involves higher cost than other approaches. Β© 2011 Elsevier Inc.Thu Dec 22 11:51:38 CET 2011WuhanCCIE 2011 - Proceedings: 2011 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineeringcited By (since 1996) 0; Conference of IEEE 2nd International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering, CCIE 2011; Conference Date: 20 August 2011 through 21 August 2011; Conference Code: 86652320-323Integrating requirements analysis and design around strategy for designing around patents22011Design Design; Development Industrial Industry; Innovative Knowledge Original Patent Patented Patents Requirement Requirements Washers; Washing Washing; analysis, analysis; and costs; cycle; design; economy; engineering; infringement; infringements; inventions machines, patent technology; In the era of knowledge economy, enterprises have set up patent barriers to protect their proprietary intellectual property. Therefore, it's an important issue for the industrial circles to break the patent barriers. Design around patents is an effective method to avoid the patent infringement, which is in connection with the competitor's patented product or technology. This paper presents an innovative design process which can combine the strategy and the requirement analysis. In order to reduce the design cost, shorten the development cycle and lower the risk of patent infringement, we try a systematic way which blends the needs analysis into the law of patent infringement, in using the TRIZ theory; we can achieve the original design to aim at the method and patented technology. Finally, we take the avoid powder washing machine for example to express the process of design around. Β© 2011 IEEE.Thu Dec 22 11:51:38 CET 2011Expert Systems with Applicationscited By (since 1996) 11215540-15548An automated method for identifying TRIZ evolution trends from patents382011Computational Evolutionary NAtural Natural Patent Patents Semantic Semantics; System TRIZ, Technological Technology analysis; and evolution; forecasting, forecasting; inventions language linguistics; measurement; potential; processing processing; similarity systems; Trend analysis of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (Russian acronym: TRIZ) identifies the evolutionary status of systems to seek directions for further improvement of technology by relating properties and functions obtained from patents to TRIZ trends. The property, which is a specific characteristic of a system, is usually described using adjectives; the function, which is an action that changes a feature of an object, is usually described using verbs. Methods exist to facilitate identification of TRIZ trends, but they rely heavily on human intervention to identify specific trends and trend phases. Therefore, this paper proposes a method that automates identification of TRIZ trends. The proposed method consists of (1) extracting binary relations of the 'adjective + noun' or 'verb + noun' forms from patents using natural language processing, (2) defining a 'reasons for jumps' rule base that arranges trend-specific binary relations for trend identification, and (3) determining specific trends and trend phases by measuring semantic sentence similarity between the binary relations from patents and the binary relations in the rule base. The final output of the method depicts the evolutionary potential as a normalized radar plot, which can be used as input for technology forecasting based on TRIZ trends. Β© 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Thu Dec 22 11:51:38 CET 2011Expert Systems with Applicationscited By (since 1996) 032927-2938TrendPerceptor: A property-function based technology intelligence system for identifying technology trends from patents392012Analysis; Computational Electric Innovation Natural Network Patent Patents Property; Social TRIZ Technological Technology Technology, analysis; and forecasting; intelligence; inventions; language linguistics; mining; network processing processing; systems; trend, Technology intelligence systems are vital components for planning of technology development and formulation of technology strategies. Although such systems provide computation supports for technology analysis, much effort and intervention of experts, who may be expensive or unavailable, is required in gathering processes of information for analysis. As a remedy, this paper proposes TrendPerceptor, a system that uses a property-function based approach. The proposed system assists experts (1) to identify trends in invention concepts from patents, and (2) to perform evolution trend analysis of patents for technology forecasting. For this purpose, a module of the system uses grammatical analysis of textual information to automatically extract properties and functions, which show innovation directions in a given technology. Using the identified properties and functions, a module for invention concept analysis based on network analysis and a module for evolution trend analysis based on TRIZ (Russian acronym of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) trends are suggested. This paper describes the architecture of a system composed of these three modules, and illustrates two case studies using the system. Β© 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Wed Nov 16 13:24:13 CET 2011#aug#~7US Patent 7,254,137SIP2 Mobile gateway2007Patent Wed Nov 16 13:19:42 CET 2011#aug#~7US Patent 7,254,137SIP2 Mobile gateway2007Patent Thu Aug 11 14:51:35 CEST 2011Cambridge, Mass.ArbeitspapiernovSequentielle Innovation, Patente und Imitation1999imitation innovation patent softwarepatente Warum können solche Industriezweige wie die Software-, Halbleiter- und Computerbranche so innovativ sein trotz – historisch gesehen – schwachem Patentschutz? Wir stellen die These auf, dass Wettbewerb zukünftige Unternehmensgewinne steigern und somit kurzfristig entgangene Gewinne ausgleichen kann, wenn Innovationen sowohl sequentiell als auch komplementär sind – was auf oben genannte Industriezweige zutrifft. Anhand eines einfachen Modells läßt sich auch aufzeigen, dass Patentschutz in solch dynamischen Industriezweigen zu einem Rückgang der Gesamtheit der Innovationen und infolgedessen zu einer Verringerung des sozialen Nutzens führen kann. Die Veränderungen, die sich ergaben, als der Patentschutz in den 80er Jahren auf die Softwarebranche ausgeweitet wurde [Anm. des Übersetzers: in den USA], können zur Verifizierung dieses Modells dienen. Die übliche Argumentation läuft darauf hinaus, dass sich der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaufwand und die Produktivität bei Unternehmen, die Patente anmelden, erhöhen sollte. In Übereinstimmung mit unserem Modell traten diese Steigerungen nicht ein. Darüberhinaus wird unser Modell gestützt durch die Tatsache, dass in diesen Industriezweigen Cross-Licensing auffällig häufig und die Anzahl der Markteintritte proportional zur Anzahl der Innovationen ist.Tue May 24 23:27:55 CEST 2011Recht für Software- und Webentwickler2008contract developer law licence ma10 patent software Wed Mar 09 18:40:07 CET 2011311Journal of Workplace Rights08/2010311-328Knowledge Work and Intellectual Property Rights: New Challenges for Trade Unions142010Europe copyright iprights knowledge_work myown patent software In a society where knowledge has become the main factor of production, intellectual property rights are an important issue in social conflicts. However, in the current debate about the reform of intellectual property (IP) law, the trade unions are playing hardly any role, although the new regulations have an impact on employed and self-employed workers as well as on the power relationship of labor and capital. This article is intended to provide a theoretical discussion of IP law issues in the context of labor market changes. Using the example of software production, the article raises two questions: What kinds of strategies does management apply to control and exploit knowledge workers? How do software patents and free software practices affect their workplace rights? The article deals with these issues on the European Union (EU) and the national level by focusing on the role and behavior of German and Austrian unions. Although these unions have become increasingly aware of the impact of IP law, they are struggling to find a common position that is fitted to defend the rights of their highly skilled (potential) members. We conclude that unions should refrain from a blind adherence to strong intellectual property rights. They should rather contribute to the creation of a new balance between free access to knowledge and culture and the protection of the individual rights of workers.Fri Feb 04 12:43:44 CET 2011DecemberTechniques for binding an application with a data exchange format based on tags in comments (US Patent 7,155,705)2006binding haifa-edtech my myown patent software xml 26Techniques for binding a data exchange format with a computer program application having source code in a particular language include receiving comment data from a particular file that includes the source code. The comment data includes first data indicating a parameter of the data exchange format. Second data from the particular file is also received. The second data is associated with the comment data and includes a statement that defines a class of data objects in the particular language. Based on the first data and the second data, third data for configuring the data exchange format is generated. When the particular language is Java and the data exchange format is XML, these techniques allow a developer to automatically produce an XML grammar document that is based on Java data objects defined by the developer and that is responsive to the developer's choices for options in the XML grammar. Individual classes or multiple nested classes are handled.Fri Feb 04 12:22:17 CET 2011AprilUS Patent 7,210,095Techniques for binding scalable vector graphics to associated information (US Patent 7,210,095)2007graphics haifa-edtech knowledge my myown patent representation scalabe software vector Techniques for providing information about an object through a graphical interface include providing in a document scalable vector graphics (SVG) statements associated with a graphical representation of the object. The SVG statements are bound to a pointer to a resource that includes information pertaining to the object. The pointer to the resource associated with the SVG statements may then be extracted from the document. Information is then retrieved from the resource based on the pointer. The SVG statements may then be modified based on the information. Then a second graphical representation of the object is presented based on the SVG statements after the modifying. The presentation provides information, or control, or both, for the object.Fri Feb 04 12:22:08 CET 2011mayUS Patent 7,222,333Techniques for generating software application build scripts based on tags in comments (US Patent 7,222,333)2007build development engineering haifa-edtech java my myown patent release scripts software tags xml Techniques for forming an application from a particular file that has source code in a particular language include receiving, from the particular file, comment data. The comment data is ignored according to the particular language. The comment data includes build data indicating how to use the source code in a build process. The build process packages compiled code to form the application. Based on the build data in the comment data, build-input data is generated. The build-input data indicates input for the build process. These techniques automatically provide, for the application build process, build information known to the application developer who produced the source code.Fri Feb 04 12:20:47 CET 2011SeptemberUS Patent 7,107,575Method and system for providing a single object instance per client-server session2006designpatterns haifa-edtech my myown patent session singlton A session singleton object, design pattern, and method for providing computer program code that defines a class for instantiating a session singleton object are disclosed. The class includes a constructor for instantiating the session singleton object, and an access method for accessing the session singleton object. The access method has an input parameter, which is used to locate a session, logic for determining whether the session singleton object exists, logic for creating the session singleton object, and associating the session singleton object with the session only when the session singleton object does not exist, and logic for returning the session singleton to a caller of the access method. Executing the code in a server that is coupled to clients in respective communication sessions results in instantiating one and only one instance of the session singleton object for each of the sessions communicating with the server.Fri Feb 04 12:19:14 CET 2011January7477600Method and apparatus for configuring network elements to support real time applications based on meta-templates2009configuration haifa-edtech my myown network patent Techniques for configuring a network to support real-time applications include maintaining multiple templates and a meta-template. Maintaining each template includes associating a class of network elements with an action to perform on a network data packet by a network element that belongs to the class. The class is defined by a first constraint set on one or more first properties of the network elements. Maintaining the meta-template includes associating external information with an associated template. The external information indicates a second constraint set on one or more second properties different from the one or more first properties. The network elements are automatically configured based at least in part on the meta-template. These techniques allow two members of the same class to be automatically configured for different QoS policies based on such external information as a property of a peer device or data rate on a connected link.Fri Jan 07 18:01:26 CET 2011Consumer item matching method and system2006classification genome music patent similarity Fri Oct 08 18:23:11 CEST 2010StuttgartWeltgesellschaft. Theoretische Zugänge und empirische Problemlagen239-259Zeitschrift für Soziologie. SonderheftDie Welt der Patente. Eine soziologische Analyse des Weltpatentsystems2005patent globalization Patente gewinnen in der modernen Gesellschaft zunehmend an Relevanz. In der industriellen Forschung und Entwicklung kommt einem effizienten Patentmanagement immer größerer strategischer Wert zu, in der akademischen Forschung müssen Patentlizenzen als zusätzliche Geldeinnahmequellen verstärkt berücksichtigt werden und auch in den Massenmedien wird ethisch-moralischen Dimensionen des Patentschutzes wachsende öffentliche Resonanz verliehen. Der Beitrag setzt sich daher zum Ziel, das Patent als soziologisches Forschungsobjekt zu erschließen und lässt sich von der These leiten, dass das moderne Patentsystem in Analogie zu anderen funktionalen Teilsystemen als Weltpatentsystem begriffen werden muss. Wie alles staatliche Recht unterliegt auch das Patentrecht einem strikten Territorialitätsprinzip. Aufgrund der nationalstaatlichen Fragmentierung des Rechts könnte die Annahme eines Weltpatentsystems aus einer konventionellen globalisierungstheoretischen Perspektive daher problematisch erscheinen. Dieser scheinbare Widerspruch zwischen Nationalstaatlichkeit und Globalität lässt sich im Rahmen eines weltgesellschaftstheoretischen Ansatzes auflösen. Aus der Sachspezifik des Patents erwächst ein partikularer Universalitätsanspruch: Ein Patent kann nur dann erteilt werden, wenn der Erfindungsgegenstand absolut neu ist, d.h. nie zuvor der Weltöffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht wurde. Jede Beobachtung von Patentrechten rückt damit in einen globalen Vergleichszusammenhang technischen Wissens ein: die Welt der Patente. Ungeachtet der territorialen Differenzierung und Fragmentierung des Patentrechts lässt sich das Patentsystem daher soziologisch nur als Weltpatentsystem beschreiben.Fri Oct 01 17:51:40 CEST 2010Wissenschaftsrecht131-156Zur Patentkultur an Hochschulen – auf neuen Wegen zum Ziel382005Hochschullehrerprivileg hochschulen patent patentkultur Universities are important places for the creation of innovation. Researchers at the universities have made a lot of inventions in the past. But the exploitation of these inventions still is a problem. Many universities don’t have a system of promoting inventions, taking care for the patent protection of innovation and its dissemination. The article describes the present situation of patent protection for university employees including the special rules for the attribution of economic rights between the university and its researchers. Furthermore, the text explains how research results are protected within the framework of the 6th research framework of the European Union. Finally, organizations like IPR Helpdesk are presented; these organizations help researchers in administering their untellectual property rights in a European research setting.Wed Sep 29 15:44:04 CEST 2010KölnOnlineMPIfG Working Paper 08/2Uncertainty and the Market for Patents2008market patent uncertainty Modern societies regard knowledge as a production factor in its own right. The market is the prevailing governance mode of their economies, and it is supposed to be the most appropriate mode of trading and allocating knowledge assets, too. But socio-economic research has revealed that knowledge markets are far from functioning smoothly. Building on ongoing qualitative research into patent trading we suggest that the emergence of a well-functioning market for patented new technological knowledge is confronted with several obstacles, which can be characterized as different facets of uncertainty. They are included in the process of creation of innovative knowledge, in its transformation into a fictitious knowledge commodity (patent), in its uniqueness, in the strategy of transaction partners, in the estimation of the future market potential of final products (based on the patent), and generally in the problem of incomplete and asymmetric information. Also a commonly accepted method of determining a patent’s value is missing. We analyze structural and organizational responses to the problem of uncertainty. Potential traders often rely on contractual options, especially licensing agreements, and complementary procedural principles facilitating the trade of patents.patentCommunity for tag(s) patent