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|Has project output=Content
|Has sponsor=McNair Center
|Has title=Market of Ideas Research Notes
|Has owner=Avesh Krishna,
|Has project status=Tabled
}}
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==Outline==
#Federal Agencies doing Basic Research
##Budgets
###[[#Agencies Conducting Basic Research|Research Budgets]]
##What they do
##number of Patents
#Who else does Research (corporate & academic)#Economic Value from Trading in Patents##Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents,” NBER Working Paper 17304 (Aug. 2011)
==Patent Players==
===Patent Aggregator===
 
====Defensive Patent Aggregator====
 
Purchases patents for defensive purposes, thereby keeping patents from being purchased from entities that will assert them against companies utilizing the technologies. Members of the aggregator pay a licensing fee so those patents cannot be asserted against them.
 
Major Defensive Aggregators:
 
*RPX
 
*Unified Patents
 
*Allied Security Trust
===Innovator===
Griliches, Z. (1998). Patent statistics as economic indicators: a survey.
 
==USPTO==
 
===Patent Quality===
 
Michael D. Frakes & Mellissa F. Wasserman, Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application, NBER Working Paper No. 20337 (July 2014) [http://www.nber.org/papers/w20337]
 
*"on average, an examiner spends only nineteen hours reviewing an application, including reading the patent application, searching for prior art, comparing the prior art with the patent application, writing a rejection, responding to the patent applicant’s arguments, and often conducting an interview with the applicant’s attorney"
 
==Agencies Conducting Basic Research==
| Other || 1,515
|}
 
===Patents to US Government from 1991 to 2015===
From [https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/reports.htm General Patent Statistics Reports]
 
*of the 2420865 granted patents of US origin, 24382 went to the US government and 2062320 to US corporations
==Patent Brokers==
==Deliverable Ideas== ===Patent Quality===[[Category:InternalMethods of Assessing Patent Quality]]

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