PatentsView workshops

PatentsView, OCE’s patent data visualization and analysis platform, hosts workshops focusing on improving the quality and availability of patent data. Recent workshops have revealed many potential improvements to several critical aspects of patent data, including entity resolution for disambiguating inventors, assignees and legal entities.

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Advancing research on inventor demographics

August 26, 2022
Event web site: USPTO Symposium on 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 is organizing a one-day symposium that will bring together economists, computer scientists, and others to discuss research methods, applied examples, and new ideas.

Past workshops

USPTO Symposium on entity resolution, 2021

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USPTO Symposium on entity resolution

March 22, 24, and 26, 2021
Event web site: 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.

PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities, 2017

October 6, 2017
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop of Engaging User Communities

At this event, the USPTO officially launched the PatentsView Community Site, updated data visualization with export functionality, and new data fields that can be accessed across PatentsView tools. This year’s updates were based on feedback gathered by 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.

PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities, 2016

October 28, 2016
Web Tool: PatentsView Query Builder
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop of Engaging User Communities
Webcast: Workshop recording

The theme of the workshop was “New Tools for Open Patent Data.” The USPTO officially launched a new PatentsView data query builder at the workshop. This query builder allows users to easily request and download subsets of PatentsView data. The PatentsView database incorporates the new inventor disambiguation algorithm developed at the 2015 workshop by Nicholas Monath and colleagues at UMass Amherst. Further information is available at the PatentsView website.

PatentsView Disambiguation Workshop, 2015

September 24, 2015
Web Tool: PatentsView Beta
Workshop Information: Results