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The research plan at this point consists of roughly 5 separate smaller tasks. Namely, data project relevant to the little guy paper, Lex Machina data pull which is a vital step to get started with the little guy paper, application for the SBA funding for little guy paper and improving and updating wiki pages relevant to the little guy project and Marcela's work on patent litigation process.

We have found few issues with the patent database which need to be addressed in order to have the datasets required for the little guy paper.* USPTO historical assignment data** The issue with table keys is potentially resolved.** Create a table to enable us to track patent ownership through the life of a patent. * Assignees data** Identify U.S. assignees in the data for all assignees without a valid country or state entry. * Maintenance fee data** Create a table with all the active patents and their expected remaining life using the maintenance fee event codes.   ==== Lex Machina data pull ====A data pull proposal/request has been prepared. We need to get in touch with Brian to discuss the first pull. Upon acquiring the first data pull, we need to assess feasibility of the little guy paper as discussed in the proposal mentioned above.  ====Little guy paper ====