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Introduction, Tracy Mitrano
Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano
Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano
Tracy Mitrano
Chapter Three: Intellectual Property, Tracy Mitrano
Chapter Three: Intellectual Property, Tracy Mitrano
Tracy Mitrano
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Patent Citation Networks Revisited: Signs Of A Twenty-First Century Change, Katherine J. Strandburg, Gabor Csardi, Laszlo Zalanyi, Jan Tobochnik, Peter Erdi
Patent Citation Networks Revisited: Signs Of A Twenty-First Century Change, Katherine J. Strandburg, Gabor Csardi, Laszlo Zalanyi, Jan Tobochnik, Peter Erdi
Katherine J. Strandburg
This Article reports an empirical study of the network composed of patent “nodes” and citation “links” between them. It builds on an earlier study, in which we argued that trends in the growth of the patent citation network provide evidence that the explosive growth in patenting in the late twentieth century was due at least in part to the issuance of increasingly trivial patents. We defined a measure of patent stratification based on comparative probability of citation; an increase in this measure suggests that the USPTO is issuing patents of comparatively less technological significance. Provocatively, we found that stratification increased …