User:Econterms/WikiProject Patents

Wikidata's 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.


 * Here we'll focus on recording patents from before 1923. Patents that old aren't copyrighted, aren't secret, and no longer have claims that still apply (to my knowledge -- there could be an exception).
 * I am familiar with historical patent, less so with modern ones.


 * 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 can be of this form: Patent US-1906-827017, Patent CA-1914-153820 -- or another form if the editor prefers
 * Country where filed: Here are three options; freely use any or all. They express slightly different things. Is one best?
 * Use issued by (P2378) and identify the office with which the patent was filed -- generally a bureau that is an instance of patent office (Q1148446)) -- e.g. US Patent and Trademark Office, Japan Patent office (JPO)
 * Use applies to jurisdiction (P1001) and then the Q-number of the national government/country.
 * Use country (P17) and then the Q-number of the national government/country. It does not need to be a country that still exists. This technique is perhaps more flexible, and it will be necessary to use this option if it is not known what bureau received the patent application.
 * 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 seem to be more complicated when there is an international phase, since the 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
 * Patent number -- not all patents can use the current property "patentnumber" which has the format US###### -- and seems to require that the patent is on google patents -- what number do we use if patentnumber doesn't work?
 * Page title on Wikidata
 * 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
 * Any input? How should this be done?  What would be useful to you?