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For Black inventors, road to owning patents paved with barriers

from Bloomberg Law

For Black inventors, road to owning patents paved with barriers Bloomberg Law A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office council will begin tackling a huge challenge this year: boosting the percentage of patent owners who are Black—a figure that hovers in the single digits by some estimates. The U.S. patent system, long regarded as among the world’s best, has also been stubbornly difficult for Black inventors to access. Researchers say the underrepresentation means the U.S. is missing out on significant inventions, with fewer perspectives and ideas in the pipeline. READ MORE

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