http://madisonian.net/2006/09/18/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/09/18/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-79093 KeVroN Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:42:25 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=803#comment-79093 Being a graduate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, I can attest that patent portfolios are treated with great respect and referenced in newspapers and University material all the time. These are mostly in reference to the Biotech departments because of their ground breaking work in this field. I agree with the general point that patent and copyright is being granularized today and historical analysis is use/worthless. However, in the UW-Madison example, the stem cell patent portfolio could yield billions in future worth(without getting into the "can life be IP" argument). Which implies that even current longitudinal studies of IP portfolios are inaccurate. With the USC example I think it is probably analogous to their tenure policies of publish often or lose your job. I believe that sometimes quality teaching is more important than replicating a studies results. Different weights applied to different metrics. Being a graduate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, I can attest that patent portfolios are treated with great respect and referenced in newspapers and University material all the time. These are mostly in reference to the Biotech departments because of their ground breaking work in this field.
I agree with the general point that patent and copyright is being granularized today and historical analysis is use/worthless. However, in the UW-Madison example, the stem cell patent portfolio could yield billions in future worth(without getting into the “can life be IP” argument). Which implies that even current longitudinal studies of IP portfolios are inaccurate.
With the USC example I think it is probably analogous to their tenure policies of publish often or lose your job. I believe that sometimes quality teaching is more important than replicating a studies results.
Different weights applied to different metrics.

]]> http://madisonian.net/2006/09/18/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-78930 Mike Madison Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:30:01 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=803#comment-78930 Great post. And the quantifying tendency obviously spills over beyond academic assessments. Does the number of patents generated in a given region, alone, tell us anything useful about that region's economic history, or prospects? <a href="http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/patents-per-capita.html" rel="nofollow">Some people think so.</a> Great post. And the quantifying tendency obviously spills over beyond academic assessments. Does the number of patents generated in a given region, alone, tell us anything useful about that region’s economic history, or prospects? Some people think so.

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