Replication Data for: U.S. Government Property Interests in Patent Rights

These data provide fiscal-year totals for US utility patents that include US governmental property interest. FiscalYear -- Begins Oct 1 of prior year. PatCount -- Total number of US Utility patents in the dataset for each fiscal year. USGovtInterest -- Total number of US Utility patents that list a U.S. Gov't interest as derived from bulk data released from the USPTO in XML (and prior SGML/WPK) files. USGovtOwner -- Total number of US Utility patents identified as being assigned to the US Government as of the patent issuance date. This uses the "ROLE" flag from the xml data. AnyUSGovtInterest -- Total number of patents that include either USGovtInterest or USGovtOwner, but avoiding double counting (some patents fit both categories).