PatentsView and Inventor Disambiguation

Alan Marco 9/23/2015

Origins

• StarMetrics

• Disambiguation and Co-authorship Networks of the U.S. Patent Inventor Database (1975 - 2010), Lai, D'Amour, Yu, and Fleming (2011)

• NSF/NAS Patent Data Workshop at USPTO (2012)

PatentsView

• Democratize the data– visualization, query, bulk downloads, API

• Reduce redundancy• Facilitate innovative products and

linking• Value added: disambiguation

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Source: Google Books

Source: Google Books

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open databig datadata science

Source: Google Books

disambiguat*

patent policy

disambiguat*skateboard*

Source: Google Books

screwdriver*

kiwifruit