This gallery has been installed with the truly topical exhibition "Tools: Extending Our Reach," curated by Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid, with tools, patents, code, and tunnel borers from all branches of the Smithsonian.
In this study, the effects of patents, especially research tool patents (see Note B), on innovation were examined using survey data and statistical analysis.
The data was analyzed using statistical methods to assess the researchers' experience in using research tools and the effects of research tool patents.
Poisson regressions were performed to test the relationship between a firm's innovation performance (proxied by the total number of patents) and independent variables that included "the degree of difficulty" in acquiring research tool patents and two control variables.
Poisson regression (see Appendix B) was performed to test the relationship between a firm's innovation performance (proxied by the total number of patents) and independent variables that included "the degree of difficulty" in acquiring research tool patents and two control variables.
Twenty-five percent (4/16) of the respondents indicated that individual royalties were too high, while some of the respondents (12.5% of the respondents experienced difficulties, 2/16) reported that they were denied the use of patented research tools by patent owners.
Other tools, like Patent Search, are being integrated into the main Google experience.
However, current tools for patent management mostly support keyword search [5 9], whereas only few projects exist that target the extraction of specific facts from patents [10, 11].
By excluding common entities with highly different frequencies, the overlaps between these two tools for patent corpora are reduced to around 40 (for FP counts) and 50% (for FN counts), which indicates the two tools perform rather differently.
Patent Search and Analysis for Landscaping and Management (PSALM) tool assembles patent data from publicly available data bases, collects and analyses bibliographic parameters of patents but also does text mining.
