Patent law offers a set of exclusive rights to innovators, awarding such rights for inventions that meet certain … technologies are measured for patent eligibility. For example, inventions are assessed from the perspective of the fictional … scholarship has disclosed such bias in fields including both the legal and scientific standards that intersect in the patent …

Does gender affect work quality and quantity? We study this question by leveraging the quasirandom assignment of patent … applications to examiners, and micro-data on examiners' work characteristics at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Under …. These gender differences grow stronger as examiners become more senior and incentives increasingly reward examination …

We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner …

In this article, we examine the rate at which patent applications are granted as a function of the inventor's race and … gender. Empirical analysis of more than 3.9 million United States applications finds minority and women applicants are … significantly less likely to secure a patent relative to the balance of inventors. Further analysis indicates that a portion of this …

This article describes the state of gender diversity across technology and geography within the U.S. patent bar. The … and trademark systems by U.S.-based female entrepreneurs. Analysis of gender data on the patent bar complements these … findings rely on a new gender-matched dataset, the first public dataset of its kind, not only of all attorneys and agents …