August 2022
Advancing research on inventor demographics
Understanding the demographic makeup of inventors who apply for patents is a critical first step for characterizing who participates in the intellectual property ecosystem and for identifying policies that will expand participation. The USPTO organized a one-day symposium that brought together economists, computer scientists, and others to discuss research methods, applied examples, and new ideas.
Event web site: USPTO Symposium: Advancing research on inventor demographics
March 2021
USPTO Symposium on entity resolution
The symposium brought together computer scientists, information scientists, economists, and others to discuss state-of-the-art approaches to, and current practices and applications of, entity resolution, with a particular focus on patent applications. The goals of the symposium were (1) to provide an overview of current approaches from leading scholars in the field; (2) to build knowledge; (3) to identify a community of practitioners; and (4) to facilitate the application of common approaches.
Event web site: USPTO Symposium on Entity Resolution
October 2017
PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
At the 2017 workshop, USPTO launched the PatentsView Community Site, added export functionality to download data from the visualizations, and added new data fields accessible across the various PatentsView web tools. The 2017 updates were based on feedback gathered from the user community at the 2016 PatentsView workshop. The new Community Site includes a moderated forum for user inquiries and a Data in Action page for sharing analyses, visualizations, and publications.
The goals of the workshop were (1) to launch the new Community Site and Data Visualization features; (2) to present newly parsed and available patent data fields; and (3) to gather feedback from patent data and analytics user communities in order to set priorities for future PatentsView open data products.
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
Web tool: PatentsView Community Site
October 2016
PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
The theme of the 2016 workshop was “New Tools for Open Patent Data.” At the workshop, the USPTO officially launched a new PatentsView data query builder that allows users to easily search and download specific subsets of PatentsView data. Workshop participants joined from numerous federal agencies, including National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and US Census Bureau, as well as from private, nongovernmental, and legal firms. USPTO attendees included members of the Office of the Chief Economist, the patent examiner community, representatives from the Office of the Chief Information Officer, and staff from the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.
Web tool: PatentsView Query Builder
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
September 2015
PatentsView Disambiguation Workshop
The 2015 workshop sponsored an intensive effort to identify innovative approaches to inventor name disambiguation. Research teams from the United States, Europe, Australia, and China submitted their disambiguation algorithms and results in the run-up to the workshop. Nicholas Monath and Andrew McCallum from the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed the winning algorithm. Their disambiguation algorithm is now integrated into the PatentsView data platform.
Web tool: PatentsView Beta(link is external)
Workshop information: Results
Event web site: PatentsView Inventor Disambiguation Workshop
