Category: Patents

  • Patent Landscape Report on Animal Genetic Resources

    This patent landscape report provides an overview of international patent activity for animal genetic resources for food and agriculture. The research focused on identifying patent activity for 17 animals from 15 species of global importance in food and agriculture. The research covered cattle, buffalo, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, bactrian and dromedary camels, llamas and…

  • Evolution of the Patent Information World – Challenges of yesterday, today and tomorrow

    Highlights Patent information developments 1996–2014 reviewed. Implications of extended and improved search capabilities explored. Language issues, data volume and changing user needs are significant issues. Parallel development of basic raw data searches and of power searches and analysis predicted. Over the last 18 years, the field of patent information searches has dramatically evolved. Centralized information…

  • Patent Analysis of Shale Gas Technology in China and Implications for its Exploitation

    China has made significant progress in developing new energy sources such as solar energy and wind power in recent decades. However, commercial exploitation of shale gas in China is in the very early stages, in sharp contrast to that in the United States. Patents related to shale gas exploitation are analyzed by using data mining…

  • The global intellectual property landscape of induced pluripotent stem cell technologies

    Will freedom to research and innovate be restricted as the induced pluripotent stem cell field advances toward the clinic, or are concerns premature within a rapidly changing ecosystem? Intellectual property (IP) rights lie at the core of the commercialization process, serving as a powerful incentive to harness the potential of technologies for therapeutic applications. However,…