Small Inventors Project

McNair 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

Want to create a new table with all small and micro patents and if they are small or micro

Then find all patents citing a small or micro patent

basically a left join of the table and the citations table (so including small micro or large designation is shown)

Look to see how many patents cite knowledge used by small or micro firms

break down by category small medium large

Find \

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