Small Inventors Project
| Small Inventors Project | |
|---|---|
| Project Information | |
| Project Title | Small Inventors Project |
| Owner | Avesh Krishna |
| Start Date | 201702 |
| Deadline | 201705 |
| Keywords | Patents, Small Business |
| Primary Billing | |
| Notes | |
| Has project status | Active |
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General
Story: What happened to the American Small Inventor
- Identify small inventors
- Are they patenting more or less
- Has AIA helped them
- Are their patents being attacked in IPR/litigation
- What do they do with their IP (license/transfer)
- What are they valued at
Micro Entities
Include institutes of higher education (those meeting definition in 20 U.S. Code § 1001: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1001
- either an employee of institute of higher education OR
- rights to patent will be assigned to institute of higher education
- however if the university applies for a patent with the university as the investor/applicant then cannot be a microentity
Small Entities
Is a person or small business
How to find: Fee Status Table
Patent Database
created citation_cleaned table which removed all rows with NULL value in either column
Created citations_made table which counts the number of patents cited by a patent
Created times_cited which counts the number of times a patent is cited
