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Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

George Abi Younes

This thesis investigates the economic effect of patents and the patent system through the lens of patent commercialisation. The thesis is composed of four chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first chapter, we present a ...

EPFL2023

Are socially-aware trajectory prediction models really socially-aware?

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Saeed Saadatnejad, Mohammadhossein Bahari

Our transportation field has recently witnessed an arms race of neural network-based trajectory predictors. While these predictors are at the core of many applications such as autonomous navigation or pedestrian flow simulations, their adversarial robustne ...

2022

Examining inventions, shaping property: The savants and the French patent system

Jérôme Baudry

In 1791, the Loi relative aux découvertes utiles instituted a new patent system in France. Because patents were seen as the expression of the natural right of inventors, prior examination was abolished. However, only a few years after the law was passed, a ...

2019

Apparatus comprising a support system for a user and its operation in a gravity-assist mode

Grégoire Courtine, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Camille Georgette Marie Le Goff-Mignardot

The present application relates to devices and systems for rehabilitation of the locomotor system, for example limbs. In particular, the present application discloses an apparatus, more in particular a robotic platform capable of optimizing gravity-depende ...

2018

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations. Regional Studies. Innovators often claim inventions that turn out to duplicate, at least in part, existing ones. This paper advances the claim that for recent and upcoming inventions, ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Apparatus to apply forces in a three-dimensional space

Grégoire Courtine, Joachim von Zitzewitz

The present invention relates to a robotic system useful to unload an object/person from its weight. The robotic system is useful in locomotor rehabilitation programs and allows the manipulation of forces in a three-dimensional space with far lower actuato ...

2017

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Capacity Design of Coupled RC Walls

Katrin Beyer

Capacity design is an important tool that enables controlled ductile response of structures when subjected to earthquakes. The need for specific capacity design requirements for walls coupled by deep coupling beams, however, is often overlooked and it is a ...

2014

Efficient VLSI Implementation of Reduced-State Sequence Estimation for Wireless Communications

Andreas Peter Burg

Modern wireless communication systems require efficient channel equalizer implementations. This paper explores the design space of reduced-state sequence estimation (RSSE). We show how the concept of pre-computation can be applied to greatly reduce computa ...

IEEE2013

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012

SeTraStream: Semantic-Aware Trajectory Construction over Streaming Movement Data

Zhixian Yan

Location data generated from GPS equipped moving objects are typically collected as streams of spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points that when put together form corresponding {\em trajectories}. Most existing studies focus on building ad-hoc querying, analysis, a ...

2011

Multi-system biometric authentication : optimal fusion and user-specific information

Norman Hoon Thian Poh

Verifying a person's identity claim by combining multiple biometric systems (fusion) is a promising solution to identity theft and automatic access control. This thesis contributes to the state-of-the-art of multimodal biometric fusion by improving the und ...

EPFL2007