Drivers of the decrease of patent similarities from 1976 to 2021

• Edoardo Filippi-Mazzola ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: edoardo.filippi-mazzola@usi.ch

  Affiliation Institute of Computing, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1623-7294

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• Federica Bianchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Computing, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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• Ernst C. Wit

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Computing, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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