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Assistive technology patenting trends and the Americans with Disabilities Act

✍ Scribed by Heidi M. Berven; Peter David Blanck

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
486 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0735-3936

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✦ Synopsis

This article examines the ways in which the growing economic market for assistive technology (AT) may be analyzed in the context of eective implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It summarizes the results of an ongoing study of patent data from the United States Patent and Trademark Oce (PTO). The purpose of the study is to examine how the ADA is fostering innovation and economic opportunity for AT developers, manufacturers, and retailers. The ®ndings suggest that evaluations of the ADA based on its perceived costs to society need to be balanced by the range of societal bene®ts accruing from the law, including those unanticipated economic bene®ts found in the present study.

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