A Wrench for Resources and Tools
Way Better Patents publishes a wide range of useful tools to help you understand what's going on in the patent world. These tools and resources include glossaries, USPTO terms of art, an article about how we read a patent when we're trying to figure out what it's all about, explanations of what's in our data and what's in our maps. There are charts,tables, and cheat sheets explaining all those numbers on patents, things like kind codes, application serial numbers, a list of all the patent numbers issued by type each year.
There are articles on IP basics and the differences between different types of IP and patents. how patent classification works and the changes being made as USPTO shifts to the CPC. There are explanations of USPTO organizes patents and the basics about patents and the different scientific and technical domains.
There's a section on words that includes the Way Better Patents intellectual property and innovation reading list and some of our favorite quotes on innovators and inventors, and our Thought Leadership list -- academic and research articles that we thought were interesting and compelling with interesting points of view and discussions on important science and technology issues. (We also include articles we think are ridiculous so you can decide for yourself.)
"If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse."
Henry Ford
The Wrench can point you to articles on business methods patents, taxpayer funded inventions and the Bayh-Dole act. There is an in depth Discovery and Analysis study of the USPTO Green Technology Pilot Program and the patents granted under that program so you can make your own decision on whether accelerated examination accelerates innovation. (Did you know that GE received a patent for a bolt under the Green Tech Pilot Program because it was economically important. It helped them build wind turbines faster. No kidding.) We also included links to all of our patentECO Green Technology resources.
There are also links to a host of articles on a wide range of topics on patent, invention, innovators, and the organizations that own patents. We keep a running list of patent advocates (and foes) and what they are lobbying for.
And of course there are the usual Digests, Maps, Scientific Presence Profiles, Box Scores and Score cards too.
So Click the Wrench icon to find Way Better Patent Resources and Tools to help you understand what's happening in the patentsphere. It's at the top of most of our pages.
The wrench may be tiny tool but it's a really powerful way to find resources at Way Better Patents.
