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

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)