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Introduction, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Introduction, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

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Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

Chapter Five: The San Bernardino Iphone Case, Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano

The San Bernardino iPhone case burst on the scene as I was nearing the completion of this manuscript. I could not have imagined a better scenario to sum up the issues of free speech, privacy, intellectual property and security than this case. Not least because the San Bernardino Apple iPhone case generated considerable public interest and policy debate in the United States and abroad. At stake are issues such as the balance between national security and personal privacy, tensions between global technology companies and domestic law enforcement, and the potential supremacy of technology -- particularly encryption -- over traditional notions …

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Chapter Three: Intellectual Property, Tracy Mitrano Oct 2016

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 Dec 2008

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 …

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