Abstract:A patent is a document about an invention's property given by the state to authors, preventing others from producing, using, commercialize, importing and exporting the described invention without a permission of the document's owner.A study in the economic area frequently used is the use of patents to measure importance or technological impact of an innovative field of an entity or nation. Thus, can be asserted that patents are a kind of inventive level meter and their citations is a form of measuring a countr… Show more
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