Seven steps to increase patent inventorship equity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2022
Publisher
2Market Information Inc.
Language
en-US
Abstract
It’s no secret that women are underrepresented as patent inventors in the United States. Institutional structures and biases, including patent education gaps, status hierarchy, and monetary incentives, contribute to the gender patent gap. Unfair inventorship attribution decisions create cumulative disadvantages in employment, tenure, and status. TTOs can help do something about it, and later in this article we’ll list seven concrete steps that can be taken in the form of data collection and metrics to quantify the problem, patent education, and altering internal processes for disclosing inventions and obtaining patents.
Recommended Citation
Jordana Goodman,
Seven steps to increase patent inventorship equity
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in
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Technology Transfer Tactics
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(2022).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/194
Publisher URL
https://techtransfercentral.com/reprints/ttt/822-seven-steps-to-increase-patent-inventorship-equity/
