Changes

This project is concerned with maintaining and updating patent data, to enable the McNair Center staff to extract meaningful data for academic papers and reports. Currently, there are two primary sources for this data - the US Patent and Trademark Office as well as the Harvard Dataverse. Data from the LexMachina online database has been added to provide information on [[Guide to Patent Litigation (Wiki Page) | patent litigation]]. All the acquired data is stored in normalized tables to be accessed and modified using SQL. The patent data has been separated into multiple databases based on data source or subject matter. Each database consists of several tables for which the known [[Patent Data Issues | issues ]] have been recorded.