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Intellectual property rights business management practices: A survey of the literature

01 Aug 2006-Technovation (Elsevier)-Vol. 26, Iss: 8, pp 895-931
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the empirical literature regarding the use and management of Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) is presented, focusing on the US, Canada, EU, Japan and Australia and the protection of IP in specific industry groups.
About: This article is published in Technovation.The article was published on 2006-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Intellectual property & Valuation (finance).
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TL;DR: Text mining is used to transform patent documents into structured data to identify keyword vectors and principal component analysis is employed to reduce the numbers of keyword vectors to make suitable for use on a two-dimensional map.

386 citations


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  • ...However, as the value of firms, particularly in the knowledge-intensive business service sector, is determined by the value of their intellectual property that can be represented and protected by patents (Hanel, 2006), more firms are trying to protect their service innovations (Bader, 2008)....

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TL;DR: The results showed that topological measures are beneficial in detecting branching innovation in the citation network of scientific publications.

293 citations


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  • ...The intellectual property rights are becoming significant for the management of firms (Hanel, 2006; Storto, 2006; Bader, 2008)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) protect their inventions from imitation by rival firms when choosing among various protection mechanisms, including patents, registration of design patterns, trademarks, secrecy and lead-time advantages over competitors.

222 citations

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TL;DR: This article examined the pattern of international collaboration across countries in inventive activities using the information about inventors and assignees as defined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

133 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a specific model of analysis, which includes various hypotheses to be tested in a sample of 258 Spanish manufacturing companies, and confirm that companies that mostly use explicit knowledge chose the patenting system as a defence mechanism, while those companies in which tacit type knowledge predominates tend to opt for industrial secret.

117 citations


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  • ...used by Spanish manufacturing companies, confirming the results obtained in the research of Harabi (1995) and Brouwer and Kleinknecht (1999)....

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  • ...of appropriating economic benefits from appropriation (Hanel, 2006)....

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  • ...In this sense, patents are increasingly perceived in many industrial sectors as being a rather ineffectual means of appropriating economic benefits from appropriation (Hanel, 2006)....

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TL;DR: Hall as mentioned in this paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms, and the motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented.
Abstract: UNIVERSITY O F CALIFORNIA A T B E R K E L E Y Department of Economics Berkeley, California 94720-3880 Working Paper No. E99-265 Innovation and Market Value Bronwyn H . Hall Oxford University University of California, Berkeley NBER and IFS February 1999 Keywords: innovation, intangibles, R & D , patents, market value, patent citations JEL Classification: G12, O30 Abstract This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature thatrelatesTobin's q to R & D and patent measures is surveyed and new results based on U.S. data through 1995 are presented. The conclusion is that the market value of the modem manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above and beyond that conveyed by the usual R & D measure. (Prepared for the NIESR conference on Productivity and Competitiveness, London, February 5-6, 1998; forthcoming in a Cambridge University Press volume edited by Ray Barrell and Geoffrey Mason). Bronwyn Hall: Nuffield College, Oxford 0X1 INF, UK; email: bronwyn.hall@nuf.ox.ac.uk

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide insight into relevant, international, legal complications of joint patenting, sectoral trends and patterns and the motivation of companies to enter into these specific patenting agreements.
Abstract: Joint patenting by companies, the sharing of property rights on inventions, is a relatively unknown phenomenon that is generally seen by patent lawyers and firms alike as a second-best option that, if possible, should be avoided. However, the number of joint patents has increased during the last couple of decades and despite its impopularity firms frequently engage in co-ownership of patents. This exploratory study is one of the first contributions that provides insight into relevant, international, legal complications of joint patenting, sectoral trends and patterns and the motivation of companies to enter into these specific patenting agreements.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse sectoral patterns and trends in the production and use of innovations in the UK between 1945 and 1983, based on information on more than 4000 innovations commercialised in UK between 1985 and 2003.

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