What are U.S. patent statistics?
Patent statistics are aggregate data made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. With the advent of electronic databases, such data became easier to access and potentially useful.
In 1971, the United States Patent and Trademark Office recognized the need to provide access to its ever-expanding patent file which contained millions of patents. By recognizing that patent activity is an indicator of technological activity, the USPTO viewed patent data as a valuable and unique resource.
The Office of Technology Assessment and Forecast (OTAF) was created, later called the Patent Technology Monitoring Division (PTMD) which assembled the TAF (Technology Assessment and Forecast) master database covering all U.S. patents.
Its goal was "to stimulate the use and enhance the usability of the patent file, and to assemble, analyze and make available meaningful data about the file." From this database, PTMD reports were created to present patent activity using many different variables such as geographic region and type of technology. While the patent reports or PTMD reports are the main form by which to access patent data, this tutorial will show you how to create your own reports
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