Women Inventors in the US Patent System An Exploratory Analysis and Literature Review - A Pilot Study

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Authors:Linehan, Kathryn, PV-BII SDADUniversity of Virginia ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0001-9012-6261Kattampallil, Thomas Neil, PV-BII SDADUniversity of Virginia ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0002-4092-1897SIWE, Guy Leonel, PV-BII SDADUniversity of Virginia ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-6416Shipp, Stephanie, PV-BII SDADUniversity of Virginia ORCID icon orcid.org/0000-0002-2142-2136Beliveau, Scott , Chief, Enterprise Advanced Analytics,US Patent and Trademark Office Gunda, Kiran Satsyil Cenkci, Don Satsyil Duong, Duc Guidehouse
Abstract:

In this pilot study, we explore patents for two fields: civil engineering and pharmaceuticals fields. These two fields were chosen based on their participation rate for women on patents. Civil engineering patents have a very low percentage of female patent inventors, whereas pharmaceutical patents have a higher percentage.

In this report, we cover the following topics for Civil Engineering and Pharmaceutical Patents

1. Inventor Locations– slides 5-30.

2. Patent inventor collaborations and gender composition– slides 31-40.

3. Comparing Name Gendering Techniques – slides 41-60.

4. Literature Review – policy ideas –slides 61- 79.

5. References - slides 80-83.

6. GitHub (code, data, literature, report) - https://github.com/uva-bisdad/us_patents_case_study/upload/main/01_documents/Literature (slide 84)

Contributor:Lyman, Kimberly, PV-BII SDADUniversity of Virginia
Language:
English
Source Citation:

Linehan K, Kattampallil TN, Siwe L, Shipp S, Beliveau S, Gunda K, Cenkci D, Duong D. Women Inventors in the US Patent System An Exploratory Analysis and Literature Review - A Pilot Study, Technical Report BI-2022-1890. Proceedings of the Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia.; 2022 November. https://doi.org/10.18130/15fd-zj53

Publisher:
University of Virginia
Published Date:
11/30/2022
Sponsoring Agency:
Guidehouse #AWD-002176: USPTO IAISS - Enterprise Data.