With a patent for the first practical light bulb in 1879, Thomas Edison needed an actual market of people who could use his invention, meaning a way to get power to his customers.

Changing policymaker and customer demands, combined with clean energy technologies, require reforming the century-old U.S. utility business model. A new report identifies ten ways policymakers and ...

The requirements to be met by a utility model in Spain are slightly different to the requirements to be met by a patent. Both rights require that the subject matter of the invention must be new and ...

CSRI leaders are facilitating conversations about the health data utility model. August 22, 2022 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time. SAN ANTONIO-- ...

The following documents are necessary in order to file an utility model with the PPO: a request, at least containing indications concerning the applicant, the definition of the subject-matter of the ...

Yet, as recent work by Oxford University’s Dieter Helm makes clear, it is time to review the model. The bundling together of different functions in one regulated entity, and the rules on costs ...