Women Inventors • Part I - Women Inventors and the first women to get a patent • Part 2 - Women Inventors and the self-cleaming house • Part 3 - Women Inventors inventing drugs and working for NASA • Part 4 Women Inventors how many are there? • Women Inventors

Other Patent Points To Ponder • A Patent for a President • Fingerprints of Commerce • The Art of Toys • Three Part Harmony • The Art of Photography • The House That Innovation Built • Colors of Innovation • Mothers of Invention

The woman-inventor patent share of annually granted U.S. origin patents rose from 2.6 percent in 1977 to 10.3 percent in 1998.

The majority of the U.S. origin woman-inventor patents are in the chemical technologies.

In 1996, 11.2 percent of the U.S. origin patent grants which were owned by the Federal Government at the time of grant included a woman inventor.

In the past 20 years, about 83 percent of the U.S. origin patent grants to women were for utility patents, 16.5 percent for design patents, and 0.5 for plant patents.

About 35 percent of the U.S. origin woman-inventor patents granted during the 1977 to 1996 period originated from California, New York, or New Jersey.

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