Business Method Patents Data

Over the past few months I've been working with two very useful (and free) data sources for US patents that give some insight into firm-level patent data.

• COMETS [USPTO Patent Data from 1976-2010] (Zucker & Darby, 2011)
• NBER Patent Data Project [USPTO Patent Data from 1976-2006]

The chart below visualizes the lag time between application & award for USPTO Business Method (class 705) patents awarded through 2010 (Zucker & Darby, 2011). I'll post more firm-level data in the coming weeks.

Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby, COMETS Data Description, release 1.0, Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for International Science, Technology, and Cultural Policy, July 1, 2011.

Information Systems Research Update Tumblr

As a New Year's resolution I decided I need to be more proactive in staying updated on the lastest research in information systems. I haven't been able to find a single source that provides updates on the top IS Journals, so I created a Tumblr where I hope to post the updated articles citations and abstracts for the top six IS journals as identified by the AIS Senior Scholars (EJIS, ISJ, ISR, JAIS, JMIS, MISQ).

See the Information Systems Research Update tumblr here.

A Call for an Open Data Source to Promote IT Research- Bridging the Research Data Divide

Information Systems researchers, past, present, or future, may be interested in my ramblings on the possibility of developing a structure for regular collection of data to help contribute to the problem of data scarcity in the field of IS. Obviously, there are many questions to be ask and decisions to be made to move this idea forward.

{It's only my initial thoughts- a work in progress}