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JILT
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the backgr...
IADIS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
In the US continued and increased issuance of software and business method patents is criticized by many. Some argue that software and business method patents do not stimulate inn...
PICS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
Traditionally, quantitative image quality analytical methods rely on large hardware in fixed installations. There are many situations when portability is required, where these met...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...
ECIS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...