Small Inventors Project
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
