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The Patent Conference @ KU Law

Today, I am traveling to Kansas for The Patent Conference (aka Pat Con). Tomorrow, I will be presenting our methods paper Distance Measure for Dynamic Citation Networks (published in the Statistical Mechanics Journal – Physica A in October 2010). While … Continue reading

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US Patent and Trademark Office – Data Visualization Center

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Legal Studies in the Era of ‘Big Data’ – Google Releases 10 Terabytes of Patent and Trademark Data

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The Bilski Case: Still Waiting for the Supreme Court’s Decision

Along with a non-trivial subset of the legal blogosphere, we eagerly await the Supreme Court’s decision in the Bilski case. Perhaps tomorrow will be the day?  In the meantime, here are a variety of thoughts on the matter.  Bilski Blog … Continue reading

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Google Wave — A Promising Platform for Real-Time Collaboration

Also from the good folks at Google Scholar comes caselaw and patents together with metadata, page tags and a nice “how cited” feature.  Here is the announcement from the GoogleBlog. Useful analysis available at Legal Informatics Blog, Just in Case and Internet … Continue reading

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Patent Citation Networks Revisited: Signs of 21st Century Change?

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Classifying the US Patent Hierarchy

The United States Patent and Trademark Office patent classification scheme organizes 3 million patents into about 160,000 distinct patent classes. This visualization by Katy Börner, Elisha Hardy, Bruce W. Herr II, Todd M. Holloway, & W. Bradford Paley considers the organizational … Continue reading

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