Buttons to Biotech: U.S. Patenting By Women, 1977 to 1988

摘要

The report presents a brief history of women inventors in the United States andexamines trends in U.S. patenting by women in the 1977 to 1988 period. It focuses exclusively on those patents whose first-named inventor resided in the United States at the time of grant, i.e., U.S. origin patents. Year, technology, ownership and state of origin profiles of U.S. origin woman-inventor patents are presented based on patent data extracted from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Technology Assessment and Forecast data base.