Usually patent data does not contain any unique identifiers for the patenting assignees or the inventors, as the main … tasks of patent authorities is the examination of applications and the administration of the patent documents as public … contracts and not the support of the empirical analysis of their data. An inventor in a patent document is identified by his or …

detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in ….e. the quot;John Smithquot; problem). Given that there are over 2 million patents with 2 inventors per patent on average, the … histories, their employers, co-inventors, etc. Forty percent of them have more than one patent, and 70,000 have more than 10 …