is a critical factor in order to define their trading conditions. Valuation of patent rights is one of the main activities related to intellectual property...

or intangible assets such as patents, data and trademarks) or for liabilities (e.g., bonds issued by a company). Valuation is a subjective exercise, and...

Real options valuation, also often termed real options analysis, (ROV or ROA) applies option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions. A real...

finance, real estate development, corporate financial management, and patent valuation. Used in industry as early as the 1700s or 1800s, it was widely discussed...

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A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...

Intellectual property valuation is a process to determine the monetary value of intellectual property assets. IP valuation is required to be able to sell...

Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making, using, selling...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently...

Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that establishes...

Enforcement by patent trolls of poor quality patents has led to criticism of the patent office as well as the system itself. Patents on pharmaceuticals...

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

Patentable, statutory or patent-eligible subject matter is subject matter of an invention that is considered appropriate for patent protection in a given...

of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive...

most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1)...

state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention...

patent priority requirement. In a first-to-file system, the right to grant a patent for a given invention lies with the first person to file a patent...

A chemical patent, pharmaceutical patent or drug patent is a patent for an invention in the chemical or pharmaceuticals industry. Strictly speaking, in...

jurisdictions' patent law, industrial applicability or industrial application is a patentability requirement according to which a patent can only be granted...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

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In a patent or patent application, the claims define in technical terms the extent, i.e. the scope, of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection...

Patent prosecution describes the interaction between applicants and their representatives, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application...