Patents as Credentials

Rantanen, Jason; Jack, Sarah E.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3013780

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“…118 Likewise, human resource professionals in patent-heavy industries may view a candidate's current patents as indicative of future performance. 119 The present study indicates that women and minorities are less likely to successfully secure a patent. They are therefore put at a disadvantage in hiring processes where prior patents are viewed as a metric for future performance.…”

Section: A Employment Bias In Patent-heavy Industriesmentioning

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An Empirical Study of Patent Grant Rates as a Function of Race and Gender

Schuster¹,

Davis²,

Schley³

et al. 2020

American Business Law J

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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 U.S. 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 bias is introduced during prosecution at the Patent Office, independent of the quality of the application. Mechanisms underlying these disparities are explored. The article concludes with a discussion of our results and their interaction with patent law, innovation policy, and employment trends.

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Section: A Employment Bias In Patent-heavy Industriesmentioning

confidence: 61%

An Empirical Study of Patent Grant Rates as a Function of Race and Gender

Schuster¹,

Davis²,

Schley³

et al. 2020

American Business Law J

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“…Even without substantial royalties payments, some individuals value patents because their formal governmental certification of the presence of a novel and nonobvious idea, together with the identification of the person as the inventor thereof. Thus, it is increasingly common for patents to be listed on a professor's or researcher's curriculum vitae (Rantanen & Jack, 2019)…”

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Surveyed impact of intellectual property training in STEM education on innovation, research, and development

O’Sullivan

Friebe

Tonti³

et al. 2020

World Intellectual Property

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This paper analyzes the findings of an international survey questionnaire to which responses were received from over 500 members from different technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The survey is primarily intended to uncover members' perceptions of patent filing and research-driven innovation. Our thesis statement is twofold. First, the introduction of basic intellectual property (IP) courses to university Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula would teach students valuable basics of IP and associated issues, technology protection; and possibly stimulate novel/innovative R&D outcomes. Second, studying relevant active/lapsed/expired patent documents could provide stimulating input for ongoing academic research. After analyzing the survey results we conclude that IP coursework could be a catalyst for students and researchers to explore patent opportunities related to their specific interests. The resulting knowledge would further enable researchers to prepare more compelling funding applications. In our experience, IEEE conference publications are often closely aligned with inventions to solve pressing

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Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on <i>Invention of a Slave</i>

Swanson

2020

SSRN Journal

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Patents as Credentials

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

An Empirical Study of Patent Grant Rates as a Function of Race and Gender

An Empirical Study of Patent Grant Rates as a Function of Race and Gender

Surveyed impact of intellectual property training in STEM education on innovation, research, and development

Race and Selective Legal Memory: Reflections on <i>Invention of a Slave</i>

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