Publications related to Sufficiency of disclosure

Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

Methods of treating or preventing an aging-related disease

Johan Auwerx, Davide D'Amico

The invention relates generally to methods, agents and pharmaceutical compositions for treating or preventing an aging-related disease by reducing the levels and/or activity of the RNA-binding protein PUM2. ...

2019

Examining inventions, shaping property: The savants and the French patent system

Jérôme Baudry

In 1791, the Loi relative aux découvertes utiles instituted a new patent system in France. Because patents were seen as the expression of the natural right of inventors, prior examination was abolished. However, only a few years after the law was passed, a ...

2019

Apparatus comprising a support system for a user and its operation in a gravity-assist mode

Grégoire Courtine, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot

The present application relates to devices and systems for rehabilitation of the locomotor system, for example limbs. In particular, the present application discloses an apparatus, more in particular a robotic platform capable of optimizing gravity-depende ...

2018

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations

Julio Diego Salvador Raffo, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations. Regional Studies. Innovators often claim inventions that turn out to duplicate, at least in part, existing ones. This paper advances the claim that for recent and upcoming inventions, ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

IP Strategy and Use Of IP Protection Mechanisms Across Firm Size: An empirical investigation

Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

In this paper we use data from the 2012 Innovation Strategy Survey (485 responses) to compare motives and choices with respect to IP strategy in firms with sizes ranging from micro to very large. Our results confirm significant differences across firm size ...

2016

Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the disclosure and appropriation effects

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Evidence suggests that patents facilitate technology transactions but the reasons for the effect are unclear. Patents may assist trade in technology by either: (i) protecting buyers against the expropriation of the idea (the 'appropriation effect'); or (ii ...

Elsevier2016

Method for assessing the quality of various cells including induced pluripotent stem cells

Didier Trono, Marc Samuel Friedli, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro

The present invention relates to a method for assessing the quality, utility and applicability of a cell according to the said method comprising the following steps: a) analyzing the expression of the TEs of said cell in order to set up an expression profi ...

2016

Protecting Options in Global Markets: Evidence on the Use of Strategic Disclosure

Christopher Tucci, Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

We examine the impact of globally diverse market operations on a firm’s choice to openly disclose some of its technology. We suggest that this strategic disclosure offers solutions to specific needs in the commercialization strategy of globally operating f ...

2015

Sensor molecules and uses thereof

Kai Johnsson, Rudolf Griss, Alberto Schena

The invention generally relates to methods, reagents and devices for determining a concentration of an analyte in a sample. Provided is a proteinaceous sensor molecule for detecting an analyte of interest (A), comprising a signal generating moiety tethered ...

2015

Corporate Science and Voluntary Disclosure : Analyzing Determinants and Firm Performance

Markus Simeth

The dissertation investigates the phenomenon of firms that make voluntary contributions to the stock of scientific knowledge. Such a firm behaviour appears counterintuitive from a traditional viewpoint, since no direct financial returns can be expected whi ...

EPFL2013

Operational Decisions and Supply Chain Dynamics : An Empirical Investigation

Olov Isaksson

While traditional research in operations management has focused on mathematical models for improving the flow of physical goods and information, this dissertation takes a quantitative empirical approach. With three distinct research projects it revisits ce ...

EPFL2013

Complex index refraction tomography with sub ?/6-resolution

Christian Depeursinge, Nicolas Pavillon, Yann Jérôme Michel Pascal Cotte

The present invention discloses a method to improve the image resolution of a microscope. This improvement is based on the mathematical processing of the complex field computed from the measurements with a microscope of the wave emitted or scattered by the ...

2011

Nanofluidic biosensor and its use for rapid measurement of biomolecular interactions in solution and methods

Theo Lasser, Yannick Sébastien Fournier, Nicolas Durand

A method and device for the rapid detection of biomolecules (320) diffusing in a nanometer-confined slit (204) is claimed. In particular, the present invention relates to a novel concept of fluidic side apertures (205) that facilitates the filling of the d ...

2011