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Patterned membranes prepared via spray-modified non -solvent induced phase separation (s-NIPS) have successfully shown enhanced fluxes and better fouling control, thanks to the increased surface area and high fluid shear at the membrane/feed interface. The ...

Elsevier2024

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Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

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WILEY2022

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Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

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Ieee Computer Soc2014

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Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

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Elsevier2009

How to play 'the Names Game': Patent retrieval comparing different heuristics

Stéphane Lhuillery, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

Patent statistics represent a critical tool for scholars, statisticians and policy makers interested in innovation and intellectual property rights. Many analyses are based on heterogeneous methods delineating the inventors' or firms' patent portfolios wit ...

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