During the financial years 2004/05 to 2008/09, Isis Innovation filed a total of 293 new patent applications from university researchers in Oxford, of which 63 were based on disclosures from clinical medicine departments.
Last year, the F.T.C. filed a complaint against W3 Innovations, a developer of popular iPhone and iPod Touch apps like Emily's Dress Up, which invited children to design outfits and e-mail their comments to a blog.
Ironically, Edison never filed a patent for his most authentic innovation: the large-scale experimental laboratory.
Yet they all happily report that last year it filed 28 innovation disclosures on behalf of clients, which is the first step towards those companies filing for patents.
Jennifer Hunt, an economist, has found that immigrants, who come as either students or on a H1-B, are more likely than natives to file a patent and commercialise their innovation.
Those patents that are being filed — or innovations being made — are also being snatched up by foreign companies, the report indicates.
The reward doesn't come from innovation, but from the act of filing a patent application.
The underlying technologies are changing so fast, that by a time a patent is filed, it loses its innovation value.
3.5 Technology Bottlieb Innovations has filed for a U.S. patent on "ground-contact area measurement devices".
In KU, it takes about 2 months from receiving an innovation application by a researcher in SACI to filing the application at the Japanese Patent Office.
