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==Table Purpose==
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Assignment of a patent is defined by the USPTO as giving or selling part or all of a party's ownership or interest in a patent or patent application. The assignor, original or current patent owner, transfers these rights to the assignee. Therefore, the assignee info table is used to keep track of current patent ownership and all claims to a patent. Our academic projects are restricted to the study of US patents. The assignee info table will ideally allow us to distinguish which patents are US based. Once the dataset also contains information on patent litigation, the assignee table may allow us to correlate transfer of ownership to settlement and case resolutions.
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==Table Purpose==
<section begin=assignee />
Assignment of a patent is defined by the USPTO as giving or selling part or all of a party's ownership or interest in a patent or patent application. The assignor, original or current patent owner, transfers these rights to the assignee. Therefore, the assignee info table is used to keep track of current patent ownership and all claims to a patent. Our academic projects are restricted to the study of US patents. The assignee info table will ideally allow us to distinguish which patents are US based. Once the dataset also contains information on patent litigation, the assignee table may allow us to correlate transfer of ownership to settlement and case resolutions.
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==Table Structure==
==Table Variables==
The orgname (organization name) and the first and last name columns identify the patent assignee. Other than patentcountry, all other table variables apply to the organization or person. Patentcountry refers to where the patent was granted. Orgname is not standardized. Certain patents have multiple assignees, resulting in repeated patent numbers. The key in this table is composite and consists of a unique combination of last and first name, orgname, and patent number.
==Current Problems==
