Browsing by Subject "Patent"
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Extracting complexity metrics of technological artifacts and systems from patents using patent document structure
(North-West University, 2018)This study investigates the relationship between different complexity metrics from the literature and metadata fields in patents. Patent citations, claims and other fields are compared against complexity metrics derived ... -
Leveraging Traditional Knowledge on the Medicinal Uses of Plants within the Patent System: The Digitisation and Disclosure of Knowledge in South Africa
(2015)Traditional knowledge (TK) plays an important role in the global economy and is valuable not only to those who traditionally depend on it in their daily lives, but also to modern industry, especially the global biotechnology, ...