USPTO reports and Economic Notes

Published official reports on a variety of domestic and international intellectual property (IP) issues including the role of IP in the economy, IP policy, IP litigation and United State Patent and Trademark Office operations.

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Analyzes the volume and growth in U.S. patent applications that disclose space inventions

Privatizing the space economy: A perspective on U.S. government and private-sector participation based on patents
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Explores the inventor citizenship information in U.S. patent applications.

Newcomers and novelty: The contribution of immigrant inventors to U.S. patenting, 2000-2012
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Finds that small companies and universities led the way in U.S. COVID-19 diagnostic patent filings.

Diagnosing COVID-19: A perspective from U.S. patenting activity
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Examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment in industries that intensively use intellectual property.

Employment in IP-intensive industries during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
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Shows that additional examination guidance eliminated the gender gap in patenting for applicants without legal representation.

USPTO pilot program reduced gender disparities in patenting
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Assesses representation of women inventor-patentees across U.S. counties from 1990 to 2019.

Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth
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Exhibits the foreign trade activities of industries that most intensely use intellectual property.

Exports and imports by U.S. IP-intensive industries
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Documents the importance of IP-intensive industries to the U.S. economy through 2019.

Intellectual property and the U.S. economy: Third edition
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Identifies AI diffusing broadly across technologies, inventor-patentees, companies, and U.S. geography.

Inventing AI: Tracing the diffusion of artificial intelligence with U.S. patents
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Provides insights into women's participation in the U.S. patent system between 1976 and 2019.

Progress and Potential 2020 update on U.S. women inventor-patentees
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Reveals that the Alice Supreme Court decision increased uncertainty in USPTO patent examination.

Adjusting to Alice: USPTO patent examination outcomes after Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
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Investigates participation by underrepresented groups in patenting in a response to Congress.

Report to Congress pursuant to P.L. 115-273, the SUCCESS Act
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Evaluates the patterns and characteristics of U.S. women inventors listed on patents issued between 1976 and 2016.

Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on U.S. Patents
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Inspects the collaboration and ownership patterns on U.S. patents granted to Chinese inventors from 2000 – 2016.

International collaboration and ownership on patents issued to Chinese inventors
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Lists additional reports from 2012 to 2016.

Past reports (2012-2016)