User:Econterms/WikiProject Patents

Lightning talk presentation to WikiConference North America 2018

 * WIkidata can record basic information (not detailed information) about tens of millions of patents, someday. Right now there are only a few hundred.
 * We have some basic standards on how to record a patent. We discuss that below.  Some things need fixing and new properties.
 * The WikiProject Patents page: Wikidata's WikiProject Patents


 * Focus: patents from before 1923, because
 * they're beyond copyright
 * their claims (almost?) never apply any more
 * This is relevant to my off-wiki research

Patent elements so far

 * A patent item should be an instance of (P31) either patent (Q253623) or U.S. Patent (Q43305660), perhaps both. That property is the one to query (search) that is unique to patents.
 * Page title -- standard form: Patent US-1906-827017, Patent CA-1914-153820' -- some other title is fine too
 * Country where filed: Here are three options; freely use any or all. They express slightly different things
 * Use issued by (P2378) and identify the office to which the patent was filed -- e.g. US Patent and Trademark Office, Japan Patent office (JPO)
 * Or, "applies to jurisdiction" (P1001) and then the Q-id of the government; or, country (P17) and then the Q-id of the national government/country. The country may not still exist.
 * Filing date:  Formal date of submission of the patent application, and generally speaking the date on which the patent goes into force legally once it's approved
 * Grant date: Certification by a government that the patent is accepted, and applies in the jurisdiction.
 * Filing and grant may be more complicated when there is an international phase, since the much later Patent and Cooperation Treaty
 * Applicant(s) -- there's always at least one ; can include company or university or government lab
 * Inventors: Zero or more; Might like to mark their order -- some are notable enough for wikidata, others just name strings
 * Title: A string in the language of the government where it is filed
 * Patent number -- problematically strict but links to google patents
 * link to Wikisource if patent document is there
 * Link to Q-id or string of Parent patent or child patent ?
 * Assignee?
 * Pointer to URL somewhere with more information, possibly the full text and diagrams -- THERE IS NO ONE PERFECT SITE FOR THIS. Wikidata could be the best site for this, someday.


 * Possible good outcome of getting these basics into Wikidata -- We could add patent offices to the Authority Control line, maybe (?)
 * like USPTO, or WIPO, and if the user clicks there would get an automatic list of patents from Wikidata
 * some patents could/should be transcribed onto Wikisource


 * Next steps
 * I will start to upload new patent items using QuickStatements, still just a few
 * Here's the QuickStatements: https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements/#/batch
 * Any input? How should this be done?  What would be useful to you?