Associate Professor at Georgia Tech

Joined November 2017
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I enjoy this every year. I apply any overpayment to next year’s taxes so that I can impress TurboTax.
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The incredible influence of Stan Fischer. on.ft.com/3xC0inb

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Stanford Obituary for Paul David: economics.stanford.edu/news/… We miss, as it says, his energy, his ideas, his companionship and his voice.

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This builds on the USPTO’s learning agenda – developed under the Evidence Act – which disclosed that the USPTO was considering setting up a lab to test and refine proposed process improvements to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the patent examination process.
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Welcome Lisa!!
18 Nov 2020
@drlisacook joins the #USPTO as an Edison Research Fellow. She will collaborate on USPTO research to expand participation in the #IP system by women, minorities, and veterans. Read more about the Edison Visiting Scholar Program: bit.ly/2JWurrr
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Interesting diffusion of #AI across technology areas as described in patents
30 Oct 2020
From our new artificial intelligence and #patents report: Patents containing #AI appeared in about 9% of technologies in 1976 and spread to more than 42% by 2018. Read: bit.ly/2HJJK6c #artificialintelligence
This was a big effort.
27 Oct 2020
USPTO's new report on artificial intelligence is out. The Office of the Chief Economist used an #AI machine learning methodology to identify AI in U.S. #patents. Read: bit.ly/2TsC4HV
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Our own Spelman alumna @drlisadcook on the COVID-19 economic situation and the government's late 2000s recession response. @SpelmanCollege
22 Oct 2020
How does the current economic situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s response compare to the recession in the late 2000s? @drlisadcook explains rb.gy/o7akwe
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21 Oct 2020
Thanks for tuning in to our #USPTO Speaker Series featuring Dr. Marian Croak! To request her USPTO Inventor Collectible Card, email education@uspto.gov. To view all of our Inventor Collectible Card Series, visit: bit.ly/inventorcards.
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22 Jul 2020
"#USPTO releases updated study on participation of women in the US innovation economy: “The good news is that efforts to increase the participation of women in the intellectual property system continue to yield results,” said Andrei Iancu, ... bit.ly/3eOyccg #Iancu

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USPTO is developing new ML capacity for identifying curated sets of patent documents to assist in policy analysis and related work.
17 Jun 2020
A new USPTO study finds that #MachineLearning could improve the quality of patent landscapes, leading to better economic analysis of the determinants and impacts of #invention and #innovation. Read the article: bit.ly/354foTi #AI #economics
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Andrew Toole retweeted
23 Apr 2020
Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. led to a rise in patent application rejections in certain tech areas (software). Our report shows how this trend was significantly reduced after issuance of revised patent examination guidelines in 2018 and 2019 bit.ly/2XZnA5N
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