Patentometric analysis of finance patents filed in the USPTO.

• Main Author: Senthil Kalyana Sundram.
• Other Authors: Lee, Chu Keong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::General
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1695
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

By using the US patent data, this dissertation studies the recent surge in finance patents. Until recently, patenting of financial innovations was considered impossible as the financial innovations were treated as business methods and this changed in 1998, when the Court of Appeals for the Federal C...