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Xu, Puwei, and Wulf Loïc De. "Acquisitions: Poison Pill for Innovation?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-6149.
Payne, Bridget Áine. "State-Financed Merger and Acquisition Activity in Germany as a Catalyst for Robust Chinese Patent Law Enforcement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1171.
Maronero, Cecilia. "Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights and Non-Practicing Entities in the European Patent Market." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bordeaux, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023BORD0488.
Patents are a form of intellectual property rights (IPRs) that are especially relevant to promoting innovative activities. A patent grants its owner a temporary exclusive right over inventions that are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application. Relying on this right, inventors can protect their ideas from imitation and gain an economic return from their investments in research and development (R&D). However, the use of patents has undergone a significant transformation, extending far beyond the traditional purpose of rewarding innovative efforts. Particularly in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), patents are increasingly used as strategic tools (Blind, 2021). Moreover, over the past three decades, the sharp increase in the number of granted patents and the unprecedented flourishing of patent trading have paved the way for new intermediaries in the market for technology (Hagiu and Yoffie, 2013). Non-practicing entities (NPEs)—firms that do not use their patents in a traditional manufacturing sense, but primarily engage in licensing and enforcement—have emerged as prominent actors on the patent market (Golden, 2007; Feldman and Ewing, 2012). Also referred to as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), sometimes pejoratively called "patent trolls," NPEs have greatly polarized the academic and policy debate. Due to their non-manufacturing status, NPEs have unique advantages over operating companies. They are typically shielded from patent infringement counter-claims and have recently faced allegations of employing patent "hold-up" strategies (Lemley and Shapiro, 2007), which some argue it imposes a significant "tax on innovation" with potential negative effects on subsequent innovation (Chien, 2008). While NPEs have been extensively analyzed in the US patent market since their emergence in the early 2000s (Mezzanotti, 2021; Lemley and Zyontz, 2021), it is only recently that researchers have started to investigate their presence in the European technology market (Fusco, 2013; Love, 2013; Leiponen and Delcamp, 2019). This thesis aims to address these research gaps by examining the NPE phenomenon in the European patent marketplace. First, we extensively explore and analyze the literature on NPE business models by adopting a novel bibliometric approach guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) protocol for systematic literature reviews. In addition, we will integrate three relevant NPE business models case studies. Second, we empirically investigate the presence of NPEs in the European patent market through a brand- new dataset of NPE patent filings and acquisitions at the European Patent Office (EPO). Furthermore, we develop an original taxonomy, thus categorizing NPEs into three business models: "Litigation," "Portfolio" and "Technology" NPEs. Finally, we empirically explore the interplay between the quality characteristics of the asserted patent and the propensity of NPEs to choose specific European jurisdictions where to initiate litigation (forum shopping)
Mohamed, Ramadan Alaa. "L'abus du droit de brevet : étude comparée de droit français et égyptien." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON10019/document.
Patent law is easily subject to acquisition and abusive exercise although it's sacred due to his qualification of property rights and strengthened by the international agreements and national laws. The failure of some patent offices amplifies the possibilities of this abusive appropriation. Situations of abuse of patent rights are more frequent in the high technology sector (pharmaceutical, biotechnology and computer industry).On the one hand, these abuses hinder the realization of the function assigned to patent law, and on the other hand, they restrict freedom of competition. The legal measures of patent law and those of competition law impose limits on the power of the patentees which is stemming from their exclusive right, to realize the general interest. However, these rules don't protect private individuals whose interests can be affected by the abusive use of patent rights. The theory of abuse of law, a general principle of the common law, fills this gap. In spite of its limited and prudent application on the patent right, its utility is not to neglect. It helps to prevent and to sanction the abnormal use of the patent right. The comparison between the Egyptian and French law shows that the difference in the level of economic and industrial development between the two countries affects their legislative policy with regards to patent law
Willmann, Chantel Shroyer. "Comparison of the effects of programmed instruction versus lecture on knowledge acquisition among post myocardial infarction patients." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834614.
School of Nursing
Marthinsen, Tor Henrik Aasness. "Conversational CBR for Improved Patient Information Acquisition." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-8803.
In this thesis we describe our study of two knowledge intensive Conversational Case-Based Reasoning (CCBR) systems and their methods. We look in particular at the way they have solved inferencing and question ranking. Then we continue with a description of our own design for a CCBR system, that will help patients share their experiences of side effects with drugs, with other patients. We describe how we create cases, how our question selection methods work and present an example of how the domain model will look. It is also included a simulation of how a dialogue would be for a patient. The design we have created is a good basis for implementing a knowledge intensive CCBR system. The system should work better than a normal CCBR system, because of the inferencing and question ranking methods, which should lessen the cognitive load on the user and require fewer questions answered, to reach a good solution.
Chondrakis, George. "The strategic management of intellectual property : patent value and acquisitions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9a1c6dc0-7289-4bb2-ae21-8bdb5d81f78a.
Liénard, Aurore. "Contribution à l'étude de l'optimisation de la relation soignant-soigné en médecine." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210136.
Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Guo, Fei. "Development of the real-time data acquisition system for Philips Patient Monitor." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1405963966.
Simonpietri, Caroline. "Acquisition et circulation du savoir « profane » et médical pour la prise en charge des maladies chroniques, en France, à l'essor du numérique et de la « démocratie sanitaire »." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB180/document.
Within the framework of a "CIFRE convention, this work concerns the acquisition and the circulation of a " lay" and medical knowledge for the care of people who suffer from chronic diseases. Supervised by Dominique Desjeux, emeritus Professor, specialised in consumption and innovation, we have analyzed the diffusion process of three "innovations" of the French health system since the beginning of the 21th century: patients' associations, Therapeutic Education, and finally the ICT, and more exactly the serious games. Respectively social, symbolic and material, these three solutions have, for institutional issues, to decrease the costs of health care and management, by improving the "apprenticeship of life with disease" of patients, but also the professionnals trainning, initial as continuous. For each solution, in a qualitative, comprehensive and inductive approach, we wondered about the roughnesses which can slow down their "reception" by the final user, the patients or the doctors. With a rather original viewpoint, a "socio-anthropological" look at the heart of the branch of occidental industry, we finally reconstructed a part of the "action system" (Crozier, 1963) involved in the circulation of knowledges in health, from patients or medical way, in this transitory period of sanitary crisis and technological explosion
Rydell, Karlsson Monica. "Knowledge acquisition in patients with heart disease /." Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2007. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2007/978-91-7357-257-6/.
Sun, Shupeng. "The clarity of disclosure in patents: An economic analysis using computational linguistics." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122181/1/Shupeng_Sun_Thesis.pdf.
Yang, Wenfeng. "Design of a Knowledge Acquisition Tool using A Constructivist Approach for Creating Tailorable Patient Education Materials." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1194.
We have used constructivist educational theory and knowledge-level modelling to define a new approach incorporating Patient-centric and Behaviour-modifying Educational Model (PBEM) and a knowledge-acquisition framework. Unlike traditional approaches, in which all patients are treated alike in terms of the medical information provided, our new model takes into account characteristics of individual patients. This facilitates the patient's assimilation of relevant information pertaining to her behaviour and health. As the information provided must address the various concerns of different stakeholders, and different patients have different concerns and concern intensities, a knowledge-acquisition framework was developed to provide a structure for patient knowledge acquisition. This framework includes the following components: a Strategic Model, a Concerns Model, and an Interrogation-based knowledge-acquisition Tool. The tool is intended to be used directly by health care professionals and to assist them in formulating, structuring, representing, and articulating their domain knowledge. This research work explores a new field, knowledge-level modelling, for generating patient-tailored educational materials and provides guidelines to implementing such a knowledge-acquisition tool.
Goldstein, Lizabeth Alexandra. "Cognitive Therapy for Depression Provided by Novice and Expert Therapists: Comparison of Skill Acquisition and Patient Outcomes." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1432225327.
Smithies, Lynda Hope. "Assessing the acquisition of patient centred interviewing and assessment skills in pre registration mental health nursing students." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560829.
Mills, Eric M. III. "Application and Evaluation of Unified Medical Language System Resources to Facilitate Patient Information Acquisition through Enhanced Vocabulary Coverage." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30448.
Ph. D.
Al-Maaitah, Hadeel Mahmoud Khaleel. "An investigation of the acquisition and experience of medical tourism : the case of Jordan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26194.
Oulion, Marina. "The acquisition of technological capabilities by large Chinese industrial companies : between catch-up and engagement in emerging technologies." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC0114/document.
Among the world’s 500 largest firms, one out of five is Chinese. In 2014, 94 Chinese firms were among the world leaders in R&D. Since 2016, China is the first acquirer of foreign firms and is now targeting high-technology firms.These recent developments raise questions about the technological positioning of Chinese firms. Studying this topic requires looking at their conditions of emergence. We can look at China’s development from the perspective of the technological catch-up model (Kim, 1997). China has gone through three phases: a phase of acquisition of foreign technology following the country’s opening in 1978, a period of technological assimilation and production of increasingly complex products, and a period of technological integration characterized by technological improvement and the reconfiguration of existing technologies.The hypothesis we make is that firms are now in the last phase of catch-up, and have entered a period of transition to technology leadership. This leads to two questions. What is Chinese innovation today? This topic broadly refers to innovation in emerging countries. How far are Chinese firms from reaching the technological frontier?We observe the transition through the way major Chinese firms engage in research. The integration of emerging technologies into their research strategies reflect dynamics of technological learning which, if they are not yet visible in the market, indicate a transition. Our results show that the trend is significant, with half of large firms (48%) engaging in nanotechnology research. This proportion indicates that Chinese firms have reached the technological frontier. This, however, does not mean that Chinese firms have reached the frontier in other dimensions, such as the organizational dimension. We also show that there are several modalities of commitment to research. While some large Chine firms engage in research by adopting a model similar to that of American or European firms, other dynamics are at work, which reflect, in particular, their historical legacy, and the impact of their localization.To obtain these results, we have built a unique database of 325 large industrial enterprises, and have looked at their patenting activities in nanotechnology, directly or through their subsidiaries, based on the exploitation of sources in English and Chinese
Weathers, Jamie. "Essays on Corporate Innovation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/403878.
Ph.D.
This dissertation empirically explores the facets of corporate innovation in the firm and the ultimate effects on firm value. In the first chapter I identify firm innovation as a new channel by which employee treatment affects firm value. Growth and innovation incentive theories support positive effects of “good” employee treatment on innovation. Alternatively, entrenchment theory suggests such treatment will lead to complacency and shirking, hence deterring innovation. These opposing views merit investigation since in the “new economy”, human capital is increasingly essential to firm value and the growth and success of a firm has become more reliant on corporate innovation. Using the KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. SOCRATES database and newly acquired patent/citation data, I find an overall significant positive relationship between positive employee treatment and innovation quantity (patents) and quality (citations per patent); both measures are significantly correlated to firm value in the literature. Furthermore, I find that favorable employee treatment improves innovation focus – innovation projects more related to firms’ core business. These findings, robust to an alternate data source and endogeneity concerns, are consistent with the theories of growth and innovation incentive and suggest corporate innovation represents a channel by which employee treatment enhances firm value. In the second chapter I use the context of mergers & acquisitions (M&A) to investigate the effect of firm innovative ability. Acquirer announcement returns in M&A are known for being low on average; however, recent studies indicate greater abnormal announcement and long-run returns to firms motivated by the acquisition of innovation. Although acquiring innovation is an important motive for M&A, prior studies have ii mostly focused on the characteristics of target firms. In this paper, I explore the effect of acquirers’ innovative abilities in the M&A transaction. I propose that acquirer’s ex-ante ability to transform internal and external innovation investment into a tangible valued output (i.e. sales or profitability) is subject to asymmetric information. I apply a unique measure of innovative ability to explain the cross-sectional variation in acquirer returns for mergers and find a positive relation between acquirers’ innovative abilities and their abnormal returns around M&A announcements. I further discover that greater CARs in high innovative ability acquirers only exist in a subsample of M&As in the later life cycle of firms. For early merger events (the first three M&As after IPOs), acquirers’ innovative abilities are not associated with significantly larger announcement returns, suggesting an altered market perception of the value impact of acquisitions of innovation and innovative ability.
Temple University--Theses
Mei, Kai [Verfasser], Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Noël, Peter [Gutachter] Noël, and Franz [Gutachter] Pfeiffer. "Advanced ultra-low-dose CT assessment of bone fracture risks in patient with osteoporosis with novel acquisitions and reconstruction schemes / Kai Mei ; Gutachter: Peter Noël, Franz Pfeiffer ; Betreuer: Peter Noël." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1196293066/34.
Junior, Jorge Luiz de Brito. "Interface entre a proteção à propriedade intelectual e o direito de concorrência no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2133/tde-17032015-134535/.
While intellectual property (IP) rights are usually claimed to be designed to foster innovation and welfare in the long run, their use may give rise to opportunistic, abusive behavior - as Articles 8.2 and 40 of TRIPS openly admit. Whenever such sort of behavior affects competition in a given market - whether by dislodging competitors, imposing barriers to entry, harming costumers, raising prices or reducing output - competition law is called to intervene. Considering these issues, the purpose of this paper is to identify a Brazilian legal framework for dealing with IP related competition issues. The author sought to draw the legal concepts of abusive of IP rights, market domination and abuse of dominant position considering the new regulatory framework introduced by Law 12.259/2011.
Malz, Angela. "Jahresbericht 2009 / Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-66567.
Gosewisch, Astrid [Verfasser], and Guido [Akademischer Betreuer] Böning. "Patient-specific bone marrow dosimetry in Lu-177-based radionuclide therapy: investigation of efficient data acquisition protocols and a clinical Monte Carlo dosimetry workflow for 3D absorbed dose modelling / Astrid Gosewisch ; Betreuer: Guido Böning." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1211957306/34.
Jacob, Christel. "Étude de l’effet structurant des éléments d’un jardin thérapeutique sur la navigation dans la maladie d’Alzheimer : apprentissage de trajet et acquisition des connaissances spatiales." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0378.
The originality of this research is to focus on the characteristics of the physical environment and their impact on navigation and spatial memory capabilities. This field, until then little investigated, represents a societal stake for the autonomy and the well-being of the person. In particular, navigation difficulties have been described in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the early stage. However, the physical environment can support individuals' spatial abilities/skills, or, on the contrary, disrupt them.The aim of the present study is to assess the structuring effect of the elements of a real environment rich in landmarks, the “art, memory and life” healing garden of the CHRU of Nancy, on route learning, and on the acquisition of the spatial knowledge, in a population of subjects with AD. Indeed, the spatial organization of this garden has been designed to contribute, among other things, to alleviate the difficulties of these people in terms of spatial cognition.All the elements of the garden have been listed and integrated into a classification inspired by the works of Lynch (1960) and Zeisel and Tyson (1999). Thirty subjects with mild to moderate AD and 30 matched healthy subjects underwent the following protocol: (1) route learning (forward and return trips), during which the verbal description of the route was recorded; (2) a series of tasks assessing the acquisition of spatial knowledge of the garden as well as (3) standard cognitive tests. The speech was transcribed verbatim and subjected to a content analysis.The results show a significant residual route learning ability in the MA group, both on the forward and return trips. The repetition of the route and the richness of the environmental landmarks seem to have contributed to this result. Experimental task performances were cross-checked with discourse analysis and standard cognitive tests. The results highlight a preponderant role of certain characteristics of environmental elements, such as saliency and affordance, on the learning performances of route and spatial memory, and this even more markedly in the subjects of the MA group.The structuring effect of the elements of the environment is discussed on the one hand in healthy older subjects with regard to cognitive processes involved in the navigation and acquisition of spatial knowledge and on the other hand preserved and dysfunctional processes in the course of Alzheimer’s disease
Malz, Angela. "Jahresbericht 2016 / Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-228461.
Difadi, Mehdi. "Qualité des brevets et reprises d'entreprises." Thesis, Lille 2, 2019. https://pepite-depot.univ-lille.fr/LIBRE/EDSJPG/2019/2019LIL2D012.pdf.
The twenty-first century definitely marks the transition to the era of knowledge economy; this is evidenced by the exponential growth in the number of patents, from $50 billion in 1994 to $200 billion in 2008. In this race for patents, given the pace of innovation and rising expectations of consumers, access to knowledge and new technologies has become a priority and a prerequisite for companies’ sustainability. However, the best weapon to guarantee an optimal exclusivity and a strong competitive advantage over the long term for an innovative new product: it is "the very acquisition of the patent"! In addition to risk reduction and economies of scale, the Corporate Takeovers activity now seems to be the road to increase business technology investment and, most importantly, to broaden their knowledge base by adding new skills and know-how, new patents and others, belonging to the same sector or even outside.Starting from a cleaning and a classification of a population of 3,279,509 patents over the period 1990-2006 and a clustering by company, we were interested in the link that could exist between the Corporate Takeovers activity and the quality of patents as a means to diversify and/or upgrade existing technological skills. Basically, this doctoral dissertation is meant to be a reflection on the choice of the target company and in which we assume that the acquirer will be more interested in more "concrete" and visionary information, better reflecting economic wealth than the simple amount in the accounting R&D.Thus, in keeping with our hypothetico-deductive epistemological stance and our quantitative data collected from NBER, SDC, Compustat and CRSP, this thesis proposes a study focused on the quality of patents and the added value of opportunities that derives from the potential technological diversification and complementarity in a context of corporate concentration. In this respect, we have therefore calculated two levels for our variables of interest, the former referring to conglomerates (industries) and the second referring to horizontal and/or vertical mergers (industry segments). These two levels are studied through our two statistical variables of patents quality, namely: technological diversification and technological proximity. Finally, this doctoral thesis indicates a close link between M&As activity and patent ownership within industry-specific segments. On the other hand, diversification and technological proximity seem to establish a negative, and often insignificant, relationship with a conglomerate concentration; reflecting therefore the reluctance and all the costs/risks associated with entering a new sector.This research work concludes on a difference in perception of technological diversification and the qualitative potential that patents can provide, depending on whether we analyze the market's reaction or the determination of acquirers to pay the high price to afford a diversified technological target
Troublefield, Robert C. "DIGITAL RECEIVER PERFORMANCE." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/606794.
Bit errors often occur in a wireless communications link when impairments alter the transmitted signal. It is advantageous to be able to predict how well a system will tolerate transmission problems. This paper details laboratory performance measurements and comparisons in terms of evaluating configurations of a digital receiver for Feher patented Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (FQPSK-B) demodulation. The transmitted signal is subjected to calibrated levels of impairments while the receiver performance is monitored in real-time.
Benjelloun, Mohamed Amine. ""Don et anonymat : la question des identités"." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5032/document.
Through our practice of child psychiatry and confronted with the lived of families concerned with the question of gametes or organs donation, it seems that numerous aporia related to donation and anonymity experiences have not been considered by medicine. If donation and anonymity have been central to medicine to the point that they have become principles, they have never been subjects of education or profound reflection. Philosophy and literature also bring some possible answers. Donation is a present without the presence, carrying with itself some abandonment, without reason, to someone who doesn't ask for anything, precisely because he would not know that he was given something. Anonymity gives an opportunity to fade away, just to be able to meet the other, closer. This obliteration starts from the very beginning. It aims at any founding trace, in order, paradoxically to allow the subject to approach in wandering and doubt a possible encounter with the unknown and the outside, far from an otherness that be only would be radical.Finally, the issue of organ donation, of gamete donation, of anonymity, forces us to rethink simultaneously the question of relationship and identity. The donor and recipient, meet and are necessarily immersed in the other's time: how to build a sphere for oneself and a sphere for the other, an intersubjectivity which would enable the communication between materials of different origin? How to recognize ego and alter, as ipseities? Concepts of narrative identity, entangled stories allow to pass over the question of anonymity. Anonymity would then protect identity. And better still, would allow for an ethical recognition to happen
Wåhlin, Peter. "Enhanching the Human-Team Awareness of a Robot." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-16371.
Användningen av autonoma robotar i vårt samhälle ökar varje dag och en robot ses inte längre som ett verktyg utan som en gruppmedlem. Robotarna arbetar nu sida vid sida med oss och ger oss stöd under farliga arbeten där människor annars är utsatta för risker. Denna utveckling har i sin tur ökat behovet av robotar med mer människo-medvetenhet. Därför är målet med detta examensarbete att bidra till en stärkt människo-medvetenhet hos robotar. Specifikt undersöker vi möjligheterna att utrusta autonoma robotar med förmågan att bedöma och upptäcka olika beteenden hos mänskliga lag. Denna förmåga skulle till exempel kunna användas i robotens resonemang och planering för att ta beslut och i sin tur förbättra samarbetet mellan människa och robot. Vi föreslår att förbättra befintliga aktivitetsidentifierare genom att tillföra förmågan att tolka immateriella beteenden hos människan, såsom stress, motivation och fokus. Att kunna urskilja lagaktiviteter inom ett mänskligt lag är grundläggande för en robot som ska vara till stöd för laget. Dolda markovmodeller har tidigare visat sig vara mycket effektiva för just aktivitetsidentifiering och har därför använts i detta arbete. För att en robot ska kunna ha möjlighet att ge ett effektivt stöd till ett mänskligtlag måste den inte bara ta hänsyn till rumsliga parametrar hos lagmedlemmarna utan även de psykologiska. För att tyda psykologiska parametrar hos människor förespråkar denna masteravhandling utnyttjandet av mänskliga kroppssignaler. Signaler så som hjärtfrekvens och hudkonduktans. Kombinerat med kroppenssignalerar påvisar vi möjligheten att använda systemdynamiksmodeller för att tolka immateriella beteenden, vilket i sin tur kan stärka människo-medvetenheten hos en robot.
The thesis work was conducted in Stockholm, Kista at the department of Informatics and Aero System at Swedish Defence Research Agency.
Chi-Feng, Lee. "Automatic Acquisition of Domain Specific Regular Expressions from Patent Documents." 2006. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0016-1303200709283586.
Lee, Chi-Feng, and 李吉峰. "Automatic Acquisition of Domain Specific Regular Expressions from Patent Documents." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26466515528871136498.
國立清華大學
資訊工程學系
94
A patent specification is a document with legal protection. It records the information of technologies and its execution method. With the effective analysis and usage of patent documents, it not only can stimulate the development of industries and progress of science, but also can catch on the technical level and the key technologies of the industry and the science, and has the newest market information in hand. However, due to the specific terms and the specific writing formats of patent document, it is hard to understand for human beings within limited time. And another problem is that, the size of the patent documents is growing rapidly. If we still rely on human to conduct the analysis of the patent documents, it will be very costly in time and human power. In this thesis, we provide an approach to automatically extract the claim structure from patent documents and show the results in visualization to help human beings to understand much more easily and effectively without wasting time and energy. There are two major goals in our research. One is the element extraction and the other is the triple extraction. In element extraction section, we use statistical method to count the frequency of NGram word and use the combination of part-of-speech to extract the element. And In triple extraction section, we develop a wrapper environment for user to wrap the training data and automatically generate its corresponding patterns with minimal user efforts, and provide an induction algorithm that is an adaptation of string edit distance to induce our training results into abstracted extraction patterns, and use the result patterns to extract the claim structure.
Ho, Kung-Ling, and 賀宮鈴. "Patent Acquisition of Cardiovascular Stent by Movement of Technology Position." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52266916969260618368.
國立雲林科技大學
企業管理系
102
Acquiring technological patent is the most common way for firms to obtain target resource and expanding innovative abilities. Consequently, it is an important issue for firms to identify and estimate the target patent. Before acquiring, firms also have to make sure whether the target patents is matching the strategic purpose, and whether the target patent is suitable for the adopting after acquiring. And the result of patent citation analysis can be referred for estimating target patent as the result reveals the technology relationship between firms, the market value of technologies and the technology development strategy. Moreover, technology network analysis can visualize the overall social structure of actors in the technology network and illuminate their relationships and roles. However, few scholars have examined the relative positions of firms in technology networks from the viewpoint of individual social networks. This research uses the idea of the “ego-network”, defining the firm’s core technology patent portfolio as “ego” while patents which directly cite core patents are defined as the “neighborhood. The purpose of this research is to understand how the firm, through patent transfers, alters its technology position and performs inductive analysis as a reference for future changes in its patent portfolio strategies. The results of this research demonstrate that irrespective of patent transfer strategy, the relative position of firms in the technology network is displaced by patent transfers. By dividing the trajectory of displacement into quadrants the data set may be named as pioneers, leaders, followers, and laggards. And the result shows firms may exit markets, reduce internal subdivisions, carry out cost control, or sell off patents, moving their position to the left or downward and making them followers or laggards. By the same token, when firms enter a new technology area or market, increase their technological capabilities, or acquire technology patents, their position shits to the right or downward, and they become leaders or pioneers.
林建佑. "A Study on the Enterprises Patent Strategy centered in Acquisition of China’s Patent Rights - The case of the A Corporation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6mtm4r.
國立清華大學
經營管理碩士在職專班
101
The main purpose of filing a patent application or acquiring a patent right for one company is to sustain or upgrade its competitive advantage by enforcing its patent right. Sometimes it is too slow to obtain a patent right by self-development, contract development, or joint development. You may acquire it like Acer did in the HP patent litigation case of 2007. This case shows the Acer’s patent strategies involving patent acquisition. As we know, HP settled all ongoing patent litigation with Acer, and Acer saved itself from HP’s attack in 2008. As China becomes a world factory and a potential world market, its attention to the importance of patent rights has grown. This thesis tries to propose a framework regarding the China patent acquisition through the ways of literature review and case study, to elaborate patent strategy, patent value and patent indicator, to illustrate the environment of China patent and technology exchange market, to share the plan and the patent due diligence of the A corporation, and to deliberate the steps in applying export license application of China patent right. By sharing this thesis, we may assist Taiwan's small and medium sized tech companies in complementing their own patent acquisition strategy, strengthening their competitiveness and achieving their future success.
Lee, Che-Wei, and 李哲偉. "A Study of the Impacts of Patent Analysis on Technical Acquisition in a Business." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07801309305644242982.
中原大學
企業管理研究所
91
Abstract Patent Analysis can track how the patent strategy of your competitors has varied over time and analysis the patent portfolio of potential acquisition targets. The patent Map trends in who is patenting in particular technical fields and identify the most prolific inventors in a field for recruitment/poaching purposes. The patent analysis also can provide visually stunning reports that make your point most persuasively and accelerate innovation by providing research staff with a powerful patent analysis tool and identify potential collaborators, licensees and infringers. Patent Analysis is crafted for a particular company and the criteria are deter- mined in coordination with senior management. Such tailored competitive intelligence is an asset of the kind that can work to grow other assets. Unlike information concerning your competitors' current activities, the Patent Analysis can give insight into the future activities of competitors, or an industry, and how your company stands relative to the others. For example, has used the Patent Analysis to consider the activities of a few of its competitors in several technological areas, as well as the industry trends indicated by the combined data. This company coupled the Patent Analysis with an Intellectual Property Audit to create its Worldwide Patent Strategy. Firms typically are engaged in the acquisition of knowledge on the technology market and cooperate actively in R&D with other firms and research organizations. Using patent data from the Community technology Survey on manufacturing firms, firms that are only engaged in a single innovation strategy, either internal R&D activities or sourcing technology externally, introduced fewer new or substantially improved products compared to firms which combine internal and external sourcing. This result is consistent with complementarities between own R&D and external technology sourcing activities. Furthermore, the different patent innovation activities are strongly positively correlated and identify common drivers, resulting in the perceived complementarities between these patent innovation activities. An important finding is that a capacity to strategically protect intellectual property and a more basic R&D base which may serve as an absorptive capacity, they are important common drivers for the different patent getting activities. Keywords: Patent Analysis, own R&D, external technology sourcing activities
Tsai, Chia-chen, and 蔡佳臻. "A Study on Merger & Acquisition Related Intellectual Property Issues─ Focus on Patent and Brand." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26305360219735620143.
Chen, Pei-Wen, and 陳佩雯. "A Study of Recognition Technology Supplementary or Complementary and Patent Acquisition Intent From the Ego-centered Technological Network Perspective:Evidence from the Litigated Patent of Apple vs. Samsung Mobile Device." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71243855267349070560.
國立雲林科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
101
Nowadays many technology industries using patents as a mean of competition. The patent litigation of mobile device was in full swing. Patents not only exclude competition opportunities, but exclude others for their chance to sue. Therefore, patent trading is frequent. From the case of Google acquisition of Motorola operations overestimate the value of their patent portfolio. Enterprises adopt the correct patent acquisition strategy is worth to analyze. In this study, we based on PCA classification system and social network analysis for architecture. Litigated patents of Apple vs. Samsung mobile device for analysis samples, distinguishing the main technical fields. Measuring the degree of Technological Knowledge Status (TKS), Technological Knowledge Reliability (TKR), Common Internal Knowledge (CIK) and Common External Knowledge (CEK). Discuss technology supplementary and complementary for the importance of patent acquisitions. From the results, enterprise upgrade Technological Knowledge Status is meaningful. When technology follower of innovation source over-dependency technology leader, cooperation may have a negative impact. Means with high technology supplementary tends to competition relationship, as moderate technology supplementary is easy become cooperation manufacturers. When making strategic acquisitions need to take into account, reduce the failed of company acquisition.
Chiang, Hung-Lun, and 江宏倫. "The Development and Application for Data Acquisition System of Patient-Controlled Analgesia." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57337652246034215167.
元智大學
機械工程研究所
89
In this thesis, we developed a Data-Acquisition (DAQ) System for Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). The advantages of the DAQ are portable, convenient, efficient and useful for user. Then we analyze the data which collected by the DAQ, we attempt to model the PCA time history with simple AR(Auto-regressive) model and classify the patients'' data for several parts. According to 34 cancer patients'' data, we can find that the scale of oscillation and the speed of increase or decrease for PCA dose with each patient''s PCA time history were different. Then we can use the information of PCA time history for classifying the patients with several parts. And we modeled the data with AR model for each patient, we predicted the patients'' PCA dose for future with the AR model. Our rates of success for every 1 day, 3 days and 10 days were 82.41%, 70.29% and 47.36%. In this thesis, our method was offering an information of different focus for doctor to compare with their knowledge and make a better clinical reserch.
Chen, Lien-Hsing, and 陳聯興. "The Influence of Patent Strategy on Acquirers’ Performance under Different Types of Mergers and Acquisitions." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rd99yw.
國立中山大學
管理學院高階經營碩士學程在職專班
107
In recent years, there are many M&A transactions in the world. The number and amount of transactions are very large. The technology would require a long time of research and development so that it cannot keep up with changes in the market. To make a profit, technology M&A has become an important motivation. Therefore, this study wants to understand whether the performance of the acquirer will have an impact after the technology M&A. This study establishes conditions of samples. 1. Period: 2000-2017. 2. Status: Completed. 3. Acquirer: Company at stock exchange or over-the-counter market. 4. The number of patents: More than 10. 5. Patents status: Non-dead. After selecting sample, the patent is analyzed into 7 indicators. The model is composed of patents, M&A types and control variables. The results show that innovation ability and patent strategy have a significant impact on performance. Among them, the patent strategy is divided into four types. It shows that when the enterprise pursues the quality and quantity of patents at the same time, it is easy to form a huge cost. Which is not conducive to the better performance of the acquirer. But if the seller does not pay attention to the patent, the performance of the acquirer will also become worse. Only when pursuing one of quality or quantity, acquirer of Taiwan has better performance.
LIU, YU-HSUAN, and 劉于瑄. "Relationship between trust and patient loyalty: The mediating effects of acquisition value and transaction value." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6nskq3.
國立臺北護理健康大學
健康事業管理研究所
106
Background: With the drastic increase in patient numbers in recent years, the competition between hospitals has become more intense, accompanied by the rise in consumer awareness. The establishment of a high degree of trust in both the physicians and hospitals is essential to maintain a long-term relationship with the patients. Creating values and cultivating patient loyalty are one important topic for study. However, in the current field of domestic health care, the recognized values are not further sub-divided for multi-facets mediation model verification analysis. The research on trust in the hospital setting is lacking and awaits further investigation. Using the TTVL model (Model for the interrelationships among Trustworthiness, Value, and Loyalty) of Sirdeshmukh et al. (2002) as a theoretical basis, this study aims to evaluate the relationship of patient loyalty with physician trust, hospital trust, acquisition value, and transaction values. Purpose: This study aims to explore (1) the relationship of physician trust and hospital trust with patient loyalty; (2) the mediating effect of hospital trust on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty; (3) the mediating effect of physician trust on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty; (4) the mediating effect of acquisition value on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty; (5) the mediating effect of hospital trust and acquisition value on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty; (6) the mediating effect of acquisition value on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty; (7) the mediating effect of physician trust and acquisition value on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty; (8) the mediating effect of transaction value on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty; (9) the mediating effect of hospital trust and transaction value on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty; (10) the mediating effect of transaction value on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty; and (11) the mediating effect of physician trust and transaction value on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty. Methods: This study was approved by the Institution Review Board. Patients aged above 20, with either first or follow-up visits to the hospitals in certain districts of Northern Taiwan were enrolled in this study. Participants were selected based on quota sampling and using questionnaires. Of the 600 questionnaires distributed, 538 questionnaires fulfilling the selection criteria were included for data collection and analysis. SPSS18.0 for Windows was used for data archiving and statistical analysis, and the mediation model was verified using Process Model 6. Results and Suggestions: Our study revealed that patient’s age and educational level were factors affecting the average scores of hospital trust, acquisition value, transaction value, and patient loyalty. Patients over the age of 60 and those with high school or junior college education or below were given higher scores. Using the mediation model verification method with a single mediating variable, transaction value has a mediatory effect on the relationship between hospital trust and patient loyalty, and hospital trust has a mediatory effect on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty. When two mediating variables were included for analysis, hospital trust and transaction value have a mediatory effect on the relationship between physician trust and patient loyalty. Our findings suggest that, in addition to patient and hospital trusts, the inclusion of transaction value could aid in enhancing patient loyalty. As there is currently no relevant empirical research in Taiwan, the results obtained in this study is incommensurable. The inclusion of different study subjects for comparison and evaluation may serve as a basis for management process, policy improvement and preparation, and personnel education and training.
CHOU, CHUN-TA, and 周俊達. "Biotechnology Industry Technical Analysis of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Patent Layout – In The Case of Gene Transfer Crops." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8k7zj2.
國立雲林科技大學
材料科技研究所
106
Gene transfer technology, also known as genetic engineering, is widely used in agriculture, medicine, scientific research, industry. Organisms are used in animals, plants and microor¬ganisms. Gene transfer technology uses genetically modified versions of the same and different species, using biomolecules to replicate, isolating, or synthesizing the desired modified genes to,and create different organisms. Microinjection, microencapsula¬tion, gene targeting, Agrobacterium-mediated, electroporation, or particle bombard¬ment can be used to insert or injecingt directly on the target vector to allow hybridization or fusion. The main genetically modified crops are corn, cotton, canola, rice and tobacco. The analysis on data extraction through Patent Cloud , gene-transferred crops patents are allocated heavily in the hands of Bayer AG, Monsanto, the Dow Chemical Company, EI du Pont de Nemours, Syngenta these five companies. Analysis on data extraction througth Patent Cloud by the total patents and Orbit by patent families for above mentioned five companies.Bayer and Monsanto's patented technology mainly focused on organic fine chemistry, Dow Chemical and DuPont patented technology to molecular chemical polymer (Macro-molecular chemistry) as theirmain focus-Syngenta's patented technology is based on the basic materials chemistry (Basic materials chemistry) . Through searching on the case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the aim is to search for the controversial technologies and materials among the seabove mentioned companies. Disputed technologies are the use of microparticle bombardment technology gene transfer of corn, Glyphosate-tolerant transgenic maize, chimeric gene transformation of the Bacillus thuringiensis, 2,4-D herbicide-modified plant genes and plants with glufosinate-resistant. In recent years, mergers among enterprises are the trendy fashion, Bayer mergers and acquisitions Monsanto, Dow Chemical mergers and acquisitions DuPont, ChemChina mergers Syngenta,etc. Through this study, domestic enterprises can be provided with suggestions and methods to enhance the domestic enterprises' industries.
"Development of an Integrated SPECT-CmT Dedicated Breast Imaging System Incorporating Novel Data Acquisition and Patient Bed Designs." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2268.
Crotty, Dominic. "Development of an Integrated SPECT-CmT Dedicated Breast Imaging System Incorporating Novel Data Acquisition and Patient Bed Designs." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2268.
This thesis research builds upon prior work that developed separate SPECT and CT (computed mammotomography, or breast CT) devices that were independently capable of imaging an uncompressed breast in 3D space. To further develop the system as a clinically viable device, it was necessary to integrate the separate imaging systems onto a single gantry, and to simultaneously design a patient-friendly bed that could routinely and effectively position the patient during dual-modality imaging of her uncompressed breast in the system's common field of view. This thesis describes this process and also investigates practical challenges associated with dedicated breast imaging of a prone patient using the integrated SPECT-CT device.
We initially characterized the practicability of implementing the novel x-ray beam ultra-thick K-edge filtration scheme designed for routine use with the breast CT system. Extensive computer simulations and physical measurements were performed to characterize the x-ray beam produced using K-edge filtration with cerium and to compare it to beams produced using other filtration methods and materials. The advantages of using this heavily filtered x-ray beam for uncompressed breast CT imaging were then further evaluated by measuring the dose absorbed by an uncompressed cadaver breast during the course of a routine tomographic scan. It was found that the breast CT device is indeed capable of imaging uncompressed breasts at dose levels below that of the maximum utilized for dual-view screening mammography.
To prepare the separate SPECT and CT systems for integration onto a single platform, the cross contamination of the image of one modality by primary and scattered photons of the complementary modality was quantified. It was found that contamination levels of the emission (SPECT) image by the x-ray transmission source were generally far less than 2% when using photopeak energy windows up to ±8%. In addition, while there was some quantifiable evidence of a variation in the transmission image in response to the presence of
A novel, tiered, stainless steel patient bed was then designed to allow dual-modality imaging using the integrated SPECT-CT system. The performance of the hybrid SPECT-CT system was evaluated during early stage dual-modality patient imaging trials with particular emphasis placed on the performance of the patient bed. The bed was successful in its primary task of enabling dual-modality imaging of a patient's breast in the common field of view, but practical challenges to more effective patient imaging were identified as well as some novel solutions to these challenges.
In the final section of the thesis research, the feasibility of using two of these solutions was investigated with a view to imaging more of the patient's posterior breast volume. Limited angle tomographic trajectories and trajectories that involve raising or lowering the patient bed in mid tomographic acquisition were initially investigated using various geometric phantoms. A very low contrast imaging task was then tested using an observer study to quantify the effect of these trajectories on the ability of observers to maintain visibility of small geometric objects.
This initial integrated SPECT-CT imaging system has demonstrated its ability to successfully perform low dose, dual-modality imaging of the uncompressed breast. Challenges and solutions have been identified here that will make future SPECT-CT designs even more powerful and a clinically relevant technique for molecular imaging of the breast.
Dissertation
Ackermann, Andrea Dodge. "Acquisition and retention of CPR knowledge and skills for junior level baccalaureate nursing students." 2007. http://etd1.library.duq.edu/theses/available/etd-06252007-104516/.
Hsu, Hung-Ming, and 許宏銘. "A Study on Patent Due Diligence during Mergers and Acquisitions in Biopharmaceutical Industry - The Inventorship and Ownership Issues in U.S. and Taiwan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vqg33g.
國立政治大學
科技管理與智慧財產研究所
107
The biopharmaceutical industry is a high-knowledge and high-tech intensive industry. The core technology is an important asset of a biopharmaceutical company. The business of a biopharmaceutical company is closely related to the its patents. With the development of the biopharmaceutical industry, the number and scale of M&A by biopharmaceutical companies have also increased significantly. Biopharmaceutical companies have leveraged their competitiveness through M&A transactions. Patent due diligence on the core technologies is actually an important and necessary process during the biopharmaceutical companies’ M&A. Whether a biopharmaceutical company’s patent is developed by R&D internally or corperated with external institutions, the inventorship and ownership are fundamental and important issues. Therefore, when conducting the patent due diligence, confirmation of the inventorship and ownership of the patent is important and related to the freedom and risk of operation in the future. This study investigates the inventorship of biopharmaceutical companies in Taiwan and finds that the ratio which the company’s excutive managers, such as Chairman of the board or General Manager, as inventors is higher than 32%. That is significantly higher than the ratio of only 0.02% in US companies. Serious consequences from the inventorship ineligibility or ownership error of the patent are also discussed through the US court judgments. Therefore, in the patent due diligence, it should be confirmed whether the inventorship and ownership of a patent are correct and flawless. At the same time, the following four suggestions are proposed: (1) do the patent due diligence solidly; (2) the contracts relating to a patent’s inventorship and ownership are important; (3) management of the documents relating to a patent’s inventorship and ownership should be solid; and (4) take remedies as soon as possible. Hope it may provide references for biopharmaceutical companies in Taiwan when conducting M&A transactions in the future.
Pitko, Vanessa. "Bristol-myers squibb & celgene: the creation of a global BioPharma leader?" Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/105621.
Kaden, Alexander. "The influence of family and institutional ownership on merger & acquisition investments and the role of corporate entrepreneurship." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/24140.
McKell, Dawn C. "Does Merger and Acquisition Activity Play a Role in The Pre-Existing Healthcare Initiatives of Improved Quality and Decreased Costs Highlighted by The Affordable Care Act?" 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/bus_admin_diss/74.
Μανδέλλος, Γεώργιος. "Εξέλιξη πρωτοκόλλου SCP-ECG για μεταφορά βιοσημάτων πολλαπλών τύπων σε ιατρικά πληροφοριακά συστήματα : υλοποίηση πιλοτικού τηλεϊατρικού συστήματος." Thesis, 2009. http://nemertes.lis.upatras.gr/jspui/handle/10889/1827.
This dissertation introduces a new protocol named e-SCP-ECG+, which permits the transport and management of multiple information types collected from patients (vital signs, citizen demographic data, other information relative with the treated incident, allergy data, geolocation data, etc.), through a communication network to a Health Reception Center. The dissertation also defines the architecture of a Health Tele-monitoring System (HTS) aiming to protocol’s application and evaluation. The pilot HTS, uses the protocol e-SCP-ECG+, in order to transmit, manage and archive the collected information. The creation of an HTS’s Network is also included in this architecture. This network supports health continuity and gives doctor the ability to search information relative to the patient between different networked HTSs. The pilot HTS, has been tested both on laboratory conditions and in real-world operation.