United States Patent Office: stereoscopic-television apparatus for individual use

Indicators based on the probability of applicant citations in patents have been used to emphasize the importance of distinguishing applicant and examiner citations. However, the interpretation of these indicators and of the presence of applicant ...

This study used the US Patent Application Database to identify who files provisional applications in the United States. Preference ratios, use ratios, and provisional application to nonprovisional application ratios were used to evaluate the filing ...

In this study, we investigate and compare the number of examiners' forward citations in the United States and Japan. The most effective way to do so is to compare pairs of patent applications that have equivalent content. Therefore, we propose a new ...