Progress and Potential 2020 update on U.S. women inventor-patentees
Provides insights into women's participation in the U.S. patent system between 1976 and 2019.
July 2020
IP Data Highlights No. 4
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This report updates the 2019 report from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on U.S. women inventor-patentees, “Progress and Potential,” using three years of new data, covering 2017 through 2019. It provides new information on women’s participation in the U.S. patent system, finding, among other things, that women make up an increasing share of all new entrants to the patent system, rising from about 5% of new inventor-patentees in 1980 to 17.3% by 2019 (see figure).
