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
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
