Posts Tagged: Institute for Women’s Policy Research
USPTO Report: Only Four Percent of Patents Name Women-Only Inventors Over the Last Decade
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a report on Monday that paints a rather dire picture for women inventors. The report, “Progress and Potential: …
Increasing Number of Women Patent Holders Can Spur U.S. Innovation, Grow the Economy
On Thursday, December 1, I attended the Innovation Alliance's panel on Closing the Patent Gender Gap: How Increasing the Number of Women Patent Holders Can Spur U.S. …
The Patent Gender Gap: Less than 20% of U.S. patents have at least one woman inventor
Although women have more than quintupled their representation among patent holders since 1977, a pronounced patent gender gap remains. In 2010, according to a new briefing paper by the …
