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- Kara Swanson. SHOT conference 2021. Inventing While a Black Woman: Passing, False Inventors, and the Patent Archive. Presentation, Sat Nov 20 2021
- Shows and investigates cases in which a female, nonwhite, or otherwise disadvantaged person doesn't patent directly but through another person who is agent or appears to be the inventor. The incentives to hide this way were strong -- many customers would not deal with various kinds of marginalized inventors, or would put this person at some other disadvantage. By selling or licensing quickly, these inventors would at least get cash; it may have been optimal for them to do this.
- Ellen Eglin is an example. Circa 1891, she made a clothes wringer and sold the invention for cash. It may then have been patented.
- “There are hundreds who deal with Mr. Boyd at a distance who do not know that he is a colored man.” — Martin Delany, 1852; Boyd had built or innovated in bed frames.
| Original title | Inventing While a Black Woman: Passing, False Inventors, and the Patent Archive |
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| Simple title | Inventing While a Black Woman: Passing, False Inventors, and the Patent Archive |
| Authors | Kara Swanson |
| Date | 2021 |
| Countries | US |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | patents, US patent system |
| Journal | SHOT conference presentation |
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