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.
 * Project's goal: set standards for patent data on Wikidata, and make it easy
 * 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
 * Patents were shorter and simpler back then
 * There are not as many: Fewer than 100K annually worldwide before 1910.  The numbers grew exponentially.  Now, 3 million a year, on the order of 9,000 a day.
 * This is relevant to my off-wiki research, tracking aero technology back then
 * There exists a lot of specialized software to manage the most recent patents, which are relevant to industry today
 * I've begun a conversation with WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization, the UN unit that manages the more recent treaty's relationships)

= Patent data elements =
 * Instance of (P31) A patent item should be an instance of 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 -- one standard form: Patent US-1906-827017, Patent CA-1914-153820 -- different titles are 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. (Might be more complicated with later international treaties.)
 * 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 for some we have "author name strings", for others Q-ids  (same for scientific publications)
 * Title: Applicants give a title in the language of t
 * Patent number -- inherited from years ago, e.g. US821393 -- works for those on google patents, and automatically links to that source
 * PROBLEM: too strict a format ; what to do for the ones that don't fit the format?


 * link to Wikisource if patent document is there
 * Link to Q-id or string of Parent patent or child patent ?
 * Assignee? Important in industrialization
 * Pointer to URL with more information, possibly the full text and diagrams -- There is not yet a site and covers the 19th century completely. Wikidata could be the best site for this, someday.

= Possible good outcome from getting patents onto Wikdiata =
 * We could add patent offices to the Authority Control line, maybe -- like USPTO, or WIPO, and if user clicks can get to a list of patents on Wikidata
 * Link together patents transcribed on Wikisource
 * Chart patent counts by inventor, country, tech topic; Time lines
 * Other insights?

= Next steps = CREATE LAST	Len	"Patent US-1906-827017" LAST	P31	Q253623 LAST	P1476	en:"Wing of flying machines"	S1246	"US827017"	S813	+2018-10-19T00:00:00Z/11	S248	Q3235742
 * There are a few hundred patents on Wikidata. I will upload more, probably QuickStatements (thanks to Jarekt's help), 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?