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🦜 PARAT: CSET's Private-sector AI-Related Activity Tracker
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Add patents granted metric #146

Closed brianlove closed 8 months ago

brianlove commented 11 months ago

Add data regarding the number of applications that a company has filed for AI patents.

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jmelot commented 10 months ago

@rggelles I am trying to add this column to a branch based on your data-airflow branch, but staging_ai_companies_visualization.ai_company_patents, which e.g. patent_visualization_data_with_by_year.sql depends on, doesn't seem to exist anymore. Did that get deleted as part of the dimensions removal?

jmelot commented 10 months ago

Also, I'm looking through get_ai_counts.py and linked_ai_patents.sql and it appears that we're already counting patent applications, not granted patents. Is that correct? Do you think there's an argument for switching over to granted patents?

rggelles commented 10 months ago

Yes, when we did this initially, we specifically chose to use patent applications (and grants) rather than just patent grants.

This is what we have historically/consistently been recommended to do, especially in the area of AI patents, due to the fact that AI is a very new field when it comes to patents and patents have a very long lag in being granted (or even published). Particularly for new companies and startups that's going to make a huge difference. If you want to add a grant-only field you're welcome to, though -- as long as we're representing both this seems reasonable to me. It just made sense that when we were only doing one number the number to use was both applications and grants.

jmelot commented 9 months ago

Gotcha, thanks, that makes sense. I talked with @za158 about this, and I think he is ok with keeping the default patent metrics over applications, and with changing this specific value to the number of granted patents. Would you be able to help add that in?

rggelles commented 8 months ago

This should be completed with #196. Closing.