Essays about: "patent applications"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 essays containing the words patent applications.

1. 21. Has Swedish companies’ ability to protect their innovations decreased due to a shift towards more software and business method-based innovations?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknik

   Author : Olivia Berglund Darell; [2019]
   Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : The goal of this master’s thesis was to investigate if the possibilities for Swedish companies to protect their innovations have decreased due to a shift towards more software and business method-based innovations. The investigation was based on interviews with respondents working as IPR consultants, with technical development or as patent attorneys at different Swedish companies together with collected data from different Swedish and European databases. READ MORE

3. 22. Artificial intelligence outsmarting the human perception of what is patentable? - An EU examination of the patentability of artificial intelligence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Jennifer Rönnerhed; [2018]
   Keywords : EU law; artificial intelligence; intellectual property; patent; inventive step; technical character; board of appeal; European patent convention; inventor; problem and solution approach; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Artificial intelligence challenges IPRs and patent is the legal field in focus for this thesis. The thesis examines if artificial intelligence can be the inventor of its own invention. Thereafter central questions to granting a patent by focusing on the second patent requirement in art. 56 EPC - the inventive step. READ MORE

4. 23. The individual inventor as a driver of social and sustainable innovations in Sweden: Understanding their motivations, the invention process, and why patents matter less

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Blaise Bayuo; [2018]
   Keywords : Social innovation; individual inventor; sustainable innovation; inventrapreneur; Sweden; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Individual inventors have played an important role in shaping modern economic growth with their inventions. However, the upsurge in corporate and institutionalised research and development (R&D) has overshadowed the individual inventor in both academia and policy research. READ MORE

5. 24. Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for diagnosis of Fasciola hepatica in animal faeces and comparison with traditional diagnostic methods

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

   Author : Maria Immaculata Arifin; [2016]
   Keywords : Fasciola hepatica; faeces; sheep; cattle; diagnosis; loop-mediated isothermal amplification; PCR; serology; coprology;

   Abstract : The liver fluke Fasciola hepatica is a parasitic trematode prevalent in mammals, primarily in sheep and cattle. There is a wide range of methods for diagnosis of F. hepatica infections, such as coproscopy, coproantigen ELISA, serum ELISA, PCR and Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). READ MORE

6. 25. Plant, where are thou from? - an analysis of the disclosure requirement of origin of genetic resources in patent applications

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Emina Cehaja; [2016]
   Keywords : Förmögenhetsrätt; Immaterialrätt; Property Law; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property Rights; the TRIPS Agreement; the Convention on Biological Diversity; Genetic Resources; Disclosure requirement; Patent applications; Patent; Patent law; Access and benefit sharing; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In the last decades one of the main topics in the international intellectual property forum has been the biopiracy issue. Genetic resources and traditional knowledge from developing nations are being misappropriated (i.e. biopiracy), by commercial actors in order to receive patent protection. READ MORE