An application of fuzzy methods to evaluate a patent under the chance of litigation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 13143-13148

  Agliardi, Elettra ^a,b   Agliardi, Rossella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzziness; Litigation risk; Probabilistic patents; Real options

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; FUZZINESS; FUZZY METHODS; FUZZY NUMBERS; LITIGATION COSTS; LITIGATION RISK; OPTION VALUE; PATENT HOLDERS; PROBABILISTIC PATENTS; PROPERTY RIGHT; REAL OPTION THEORY; REAL OPTIONS;

FUZZY RULES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PROFITABILITY;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 79958016665     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.122     Document Type: Article

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