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Questions tagged [patents]

Questions about patents. Patents are government licenses conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention without compensation.

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Are patents appropriate in taxpayer funded academic settings?

I am asking because I work for a non-for-profit academic hospital where the vast majority of the funding comes, one way or another, from the taxpayer. It is certainly possible, actually encouraged, for us to file for patents should we find some new…
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Is it acceptable to transform an accepted paper (tier-1 conf.) as a patent?

Recently I have a paper acceptance from a tier-1 conference in our field of telecommunication. I have also submitted the extended version in IEEE Transactions as well. Is it ok (and acceptable) for me to write the patent out these papers? (I…
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My research supervisors want to patent an idea I made and I get a minority part of the invention

I entirely came up with a novel idea. I did all of the research indepently. Both my supervisors want to patent the idea now. It seems that I'm getting a smaller stake in the patent according to the filing papers (they didn't talk to me about this).…
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Patents associated with research papers

Is there a way to know if the authors of a paper filed a patent related to their content? Is this usually documented in the paper, or is it not notated for some reason (i.e. information asymmetry)? I just want to know if I can use the techniques…
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Non-published patent application -Should I mention it or not in paper submission?

Earlier this year I filed an international patent application related to a global hot topic. It will automatically be published in Aug 2023, but due to the complexity and length (150 pages), almost no-one will read it. In order to get funding (to…
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Royalty distribution negotiable?

It seems many US academic institutes co-own patents filed by their employees, and have policies for redistributing the royalty (minus costs) back to the inventor. For example, Stanford: 1/3 MIT: 1/3 University of California (UC) system: 35% State…
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How to equitably divide the economic benefits of a licensed patent among academic inventors?

I am PI of a research group and in different projects regarding sample analyses, it looks like we will be able to license 4 patents to 4 different companies. I can tell you this success was not neither expected nor planned. And now the problems…
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Can I patent part of my work presented that in my own research paper?

I recently published a paper in which I proposed a new transmission design relevant to wireless communication (skipping the details here). Now I am thinking to file a patent but I am not sure if the work already published can be patented? Can the…
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Is it possible for me as a graduate student in the US to a sign a contract with an US company to create a US patent from my PhD research?

I'm a third year graduate student in the US and a company in the US is interested in a special part of my PhD research, which was about developing an algorithm and create a software based on that algorithm for biomedical applications, and they want…
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Issues with a patent overlapping my work

I am a PhD student and recently found that a patent exists with significant overlap to my work. I.e. my situation is roughly similar to that described in Proving that the PhD work was done prior to someone else's patent except that I unfortunately…
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Should I publish a journal article on a new device instead of waiting to patent it?

I have developed a device that would be patentable, however I have no funds to get an international patent. I suspect that it might be better to write a research paper on the device so that people can read about it and provide funds for a patent,…
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