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* # USPTO historical assignment data *#* The issue with table keys is potentially resolved.*#* Create a table to enable us to track patent ownership through the life of a patent. * # Assignees data*#* Identify U.S. assignees in the data for all assignees without a valid country or state entry. * # Maintenance fee data*#* Create a table with all the active patents and their expected remaining life using the maintenance fee event codes.* # Citation data*#* We need to recognize patterns in the cited patent numbers. A low hanging fruit would be to match all the publication numbers to the granted patent numbers in the histpatent table. Few other repeating patterns seem to point to foreign issued patents.

The goal is to go over the Instruction to Offerors and Statement of Work documents, both available on [https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ac23f2241c97aca7a4870662ed153e5d&tab=core&_cview=0|Research on the Changing Value of Patents to Startups] page, and gauge the compatibility of the little guy paper's research question with the one in these documents. The main focus for the literature review will be on Lerner, Josh, Andrew Speen, and Ann Leamon. "The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act: A Preliminary Examination of Its Impact on Small Businesses".https[[Category://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=c72f9e7dbb0016e1181053370e54059aWork Log]]