Sentence examples for corporate patent from inspiring English sources

In 2012, Google ranked 21st in the corporate patent sweepstakes.

A report by Thomson Reuters, published on Tuesday, tries to draw a more accurate link between corporate patent filings and real innovation.

We'd left the small river town where I'd grown up because my father, a corporate patent lawyer who loved to hunt and fish in his spare time, had soured on the Midwest.

Of course, I.B.M. also employs 370 corporate patent lawyers who Mr. Meyerson said work "hand in hand" with the company's inventors, trying to make sure that the company is aware of patent pitfalls that might affect its work.

No one would have predicted that the three of us would ever find ourselves on the same side of the corporate patent wars, let alone speak with one voice about how to end them.

By analyzing corporate patent portfolios in this manner, we are able to identify the sweet spot of innovation where pure R&D meets corporate strategy for protecting intellectual property.

"It's essentially a gift of opportunity for us," said W. Bruce Wheaton, executive director of the University of Iowa Research Foundation, which administers donated corporate patents.

Patent databases contain large amounts of information about the inventions and metadata of corporate patents (such as the technological domain they belong to, their applicants, and inventors).

Jaffe (1989) found that the proximity between universities/PRIs and firms could have mediating effects on spill-overs from public-funded research to corporate patents.

This paper explores the incidence of patenting and publishing of scientists distinguishing between corporate patents and patents assigned to non-profit organizations for a large sample of professors active in Germany.

By applying a unique dataset of German academic and corporate patents, we find that boundary-spanning knowledge production with academic inventors raises the innovative performance of SMEs and MNEs.