Yet while a large body of literature addresses the impact of patent originality on various firm performance measures, we address the question of what conditions drive patent originality in the process of knowledge creation within the university.
Fenning ((2)) noted that IPR were held not only by private companies but also by some public organisations and that "it will soon reach the point where it is nearly impossible to use any aspect of biotechnology for improving any major crop species without infringing a patent somewhere in the process".
The team has patented or is in the process of patenting several elements of the technology, and several companies have expressed interest in pursuing the research, Ren said".
Rixty, a cash-based payment platform for games, virtual goods and other digital content, today received a majority-stake investment from MOL AccessPortal, the e-payment subsidiary of MOL Global, the company that bought social network Friendster in 2009 and then converted it into an online gaming site, selling Friendster's social media patents to Facebook in the process.
"It would be a tragedy if the greed of the big banks and their willing accomplices in Congress use this important legislation to trample the rights of legitimate patent holders and in the process weaken the integrity of our patent system," Tom Giovanetti, the president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, a conservative research group, said in a statement.
Otherwise, the organization seeks to find a customer interested in using the patent in the production process.
In particular, we assess the role of two main factors: the significance of the technological solution contained in the patent and the involvement of the applicant of the patent in the standardisation process.
For example, Nokia has over 12,000 existing patents globally, and 10,000 innovations in the process of being patented.
But Mr. Bezos said he planned to light a fire underneath the nascent patent reform movement and, in the process, stimulate innovation that he says has been hindered by current law, which grants 20 years of protection from the time an application is filed.
