Séminaire par Prof. Uwe Dulleck, Queensland University of Technology
Event details
| Date | 19.06.2018 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Uwe Dulleck, Queensland University of Technology |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
"Are University Patents Better Than Those Of Corporation?"
Résumé
Encouraging inventors to disclose their new inventions is one of the top two economic justi- fications of the patent system. Some scholars argue that disclosure function does not work well in real world, because the technical information contained in patent documents is of- ten inadequate and unclear Lemley (2012). However, there are quite few research so far studying the extent of patent disclosure occurred in real world. In this paper, we firstly in- troduce computational linguistic program into patent documents to measure the readability of patents and we then use readability as an index to study the disclosure level of patents. By comparing the readability of patents applied by universities and practicing firms in the industry of nanotechnology during 2009 to 2012, we find that our linguistic indicators show that university patents are significantly easier to comprehend. This result implies that the difference of disclosure level between different patent documents is not random and appli- cants may strategically choose different disclosure levels for their patent documents.
Résumé
Encouraging inventors to disclose their new inventions is one of the top two economic justi- fications of the patent system. Some scholars argue that disclosure function does not work well in real world, because the technical information contained in patent documents is of- ten inadequate and unclear Lemley (2012). However, there are quite few research so far studying the extent of patent disclosure occurred in real world. In this paper, we firstly in- troduce computational linguistic program into patent documents to measure the readability of patents and we then use readability as an index to study the disclosure level of patents. By comparing the readability of patents applied by universities and practicing firms in the industry of nanotechnology during 2009 to 2012, we find that our linguistic indicators show that university patents are significantly easier to comprehend. This result implies that the difference of disclosure level between different patent documents is not random and appli- cants may strategically choose different disclosure levels for their patent documents.
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