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Ismael Arinas Pelln

UPM / ASB / IOG

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Summary

Patent

What? For what?

Why? Who? How?

Vague

Pinkal & Vagueness

Law & Vagueness

Text

Levels of Vagueness & Examples

And then What?

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Intellectual Property Plants & Designs

Business Methods

Composition of Matter Processes

Manufactures

Machines

Bazerman (1999)

Institutionalised

process by which anidea becomes

property

Myers (1995)Patents demarcate a

territory

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Rules & Value (1) Title Length (500ch)

Abstract Length (150w)

No Copyright

MPEP

Right to Exclude

Court Decisions

Expiry Date

Maintenance Fees

Application Published

Relation betweenLength andCommercial Value

Patent ThicketLicense

Patent Pools

Camouflage

Patent Trolls

Patent Busters

Gwylym Roberts (2007)

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Rules & Value (2)

Novelty

Non-obviousness

Preferredembodiment

Enablement

Utility

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Information Contents

EconometricsFinancial

TechnicalLegal

claims descript.

StatisticsBib. Data

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Move StructureMOVES Headings

Property scope ClaimsField and application Brief summary of the

invention

Gaps in prior art Background of theinvention or prior art

Physical and functional

description Detailed descriptionCautionary statements

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Vagueness & Pinkal (1985) Communicate indefiniteness (Less information

than expected)

Semantic indeterminacy (Cannot decidewhether true or false) Ambiguity: aforementioned

Vagueness: Preferably a valve is disposed within thefluid chamber

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Law and Vagueness Van Orman Quine

(1960)

Krippendorf (1964) Tiersma (1999)

Prampolini (1998)

Endicott (2001)

Channel (1994)

Giving the rightamount of information

Deliberatelywithholdinginformation

More persuasive

Lack of specificinformation

Self-protection

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Corpus dataU.S. Patents

# Documents 343

# Tokens 3 million

# Different Tokens 30,798

Word / Token ratio 96,30 / 1,03

Average Words/Doc. 7475.15Keywords Used 200

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Vagueness examples In the axle driving unit of an embodimentto be

discussed below, the Equipment or any other equipment leased under

any Lease,

by means of a redrying machine or other steam-conditioning equipment

In a preferred embodiment of the invention a torquetransfer device

provided that the affected party shall use itsreasonable best efforts for acceptance, rejection, or referral to the

appropriate Federal agency. Modal verbs: May

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And then what? Expert informants for validation

Application of results to my context

Potentialother existing projects