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How to Diversify the Pool of Inventors — and Improve Innovation
Every February, well-meaning people highlight achievements by African American inventors and innovators as part of Black History Month. In our field of patent law, we and our colleagues often receive online tidbits about inventors like George Washington Carver (peanut butter), Charles Drew (blood banking), Garrett Morgan (traffic lights), Marie Van Brittan Brown (home security systems) and Shirley Jackson (telecommunications technology), among others.
This periodic reminder often spurs interesting discussions surrounding innovation in general and the inventive minds that set innovation in motion. We wish such discussions occurred more frequently throughout the other 11 months of the year, especially since the pool of inventors awarded United States patents is dominated by white men. For example, the Congressional Research Service reports that only 12.8% of patents are held by women inventors. Further, although the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) doesn't record racial data of patent holders, a study from 1970 to 2006 showed that Black inventors secured a small fraction (only 2.5%) of the number of patents secured by white inventors in that timeframe.
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