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Record W3158831268 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.7491

Intellectual Property Challenges: Unshackling Innovation

2017· article· en· W3158831268 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Chris Palmer

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicIntellectual Property and Patents
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIntellectual propertyInstitutionAgency (philosophy)BusinessFunding AgencyCopyingLaw and economicsEconomicsLawPublic relationsPolitical scienceSociology

Abstract

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Last year I was co‐investigator on an award winning research project that sought to improve sustainable energy technology. Our project optimized dye‐sensitized solar cells, which are cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional solar cells. We discovered that adding a certain material results in approximately a 10% increase in efficiency. Although I would like to, I cannot share any more details because of intellectual property issues. This seems odd considering the intent of the project; however, it is a common and valid concern for researchers because of current intellectual property law. An inventor has no claim to an invention until it is patented. The expense of patenting forces people to hoard their ideas even if they do not want the patents for themselves. Though ideas could benefit society, inventors must conceal them lest a greedy entity patent them and prevent their free use. To remedy this problem I propose the establishment of an institution that would pay for patent applications, provided that after the patent is granted only a minimal fee is charged for use of the patent. This fee would compensate the inventors reasonably, pay upkeep costs of the institution and possibly fund a grant agency. This would encourage innovation by allowing free exchange of ideas without fear of intellectual robbery or loss of credit to the inventor, facilitating more productive and expedient research. The institution would afford society virtually free use of technologies with the consent of the inventor, making widespread implementation of new technologies more feasible.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.042
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.088
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.222

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0420.088
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0110.054
Scholarly communication0.0270.037
Open science0.0040.013
Research integrity0.0200.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.507
GPT teacher head0.370
Teacher spread0.137 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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