 Extending legal protection strategies to the service innovations area: Review and analysisMartin A. Bader World Patent Information, 2007, vol. 29, issue 2, 122-135 Abstract: In highly industrialized countries, innovation and technologies account for about half of economic growth. Patent management plays a crucial role in managing innovation by providing legal protection, especially when supporting factual protection strategies that enable profits from temporary monopolies. However, the requirements for handling innovations have become tougher due to an increase in complexity, shortened innovation cycles as well as the higher risks and costs of generating innovation. Today, value creation is shifting towards service innovations. However, legal protection strategies still are a novelty in this emerging business field. The paper gives an extensive review and an analysis of the current status quo and its recent history, and outlines how common practices in managing patents can get extended to the service environment. Keywords: Intellectual; property; management; Patents; Patent; portfolio; management; Service; industry; sector; Service; innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:worpat:v:29:y:2007:i:2:p:122-135 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article World Patent Information is currently edited by Michael Blackman More articles in World Patent Information from Elsevier |
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