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Research using the USPTO’s Trademark Case File Dataset
Stuart GrahamGeorgia Tech & USPTO
6th Conference on Innovation and EntrepreneurshipSearle Center, Northwestern University
6 June 2013
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Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2188621
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Motivation
• Data as precondition / facilitator of research– E.g., NBER Patent Citation Database, HJT, (2001)
• Support for embryonic field of TM study– Pillar of the USPTO economics research agenda
• Responsibility of government– Transparency– Data as a public good = underprovided
• Obama Administration information initiatives– E.g., data.gov umbrella
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Brief Backgrounder• Trademark
– “a word, phrase, symbol, design, color, smell, sound, or combination thereof that identifies and distinguishes the goods and services of one party from those of others.” 15 U.S.C. § 1127.
• Bases– State common law– US federal register
• Since 1881, modern Lanham Act dates from 1946• Benefit of prima facie evidence of ownership and exclusive right to use the mark on goods specified
• Represents the goodwill an enterprise and its goods and services maintain with the public. – Consumers rely on trademarks to reduce search costs, to
distinguish among competing producers, and as guarantees of product quality.
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Prior, ongoing research using TM data: Where’s the action
• Economics / Management– Graevenitz / LMU– Complements
• NGOs – OECD, Millot
• Empirical legal studies– Beebe ‐ NYU
• Marketing– Tucker – MIT / Krasnikov – GWU
• IP Offices– WIPO, Fink / OHIM, Wajsman / UK, Clayton / USPTO
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Next Steps
• Hard work to be done on validation– TM, unlike the patent literature, has not had decades of rigorous work
• Patent data had serious minds tackling important questions prior to the arrival of “big data,” e.g., Grilches, Pakkes, Scherer
• TM data is largely terra incognito– Payoffs likely in slow, molecular effort by researchers in the vein of “normal science”
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