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How Smart Is Your State? US States Ranked by Patents per Million People
- edw519 19y agoI think "cashiers who can make change without a cash register" would be a better measure.
- graywh 19y agoA lot of things would be a better measure.
- wastedbrains 19y agoIf you don't really agree with software patents this measure doesn't work well...
- gojomo 19y agoI doubt software patents contribute much to the totals, or would change the rankings if left out. Same for business method patents. And you might disagree with patents entirely but still see them as correlated with a certain type of intelligent opportunism. Pretty sure Idaho owes its ranking to a few key corporate research groups in patent-heavy fields -- HP, Micron, ?
- pg 19y agoThis would be a lot better if the colors varied continuously.
- graywh 19y agoYes, the graphic could use some help from http://www.colorbrewer.org/ http://www.colorbrewer.org/.
- scw 19y agoIt'd be much better if they de-aggregated this information over the surface to create a true 'heat map'. If they did this, you'd probably see true hotspots of patent innovation which I'll bet correspond nicely to startup hubs.
- chaostheory 19y agonice, a patent troll ranking for the US
- graemeklass 19y agoFor those that want to experiment with the KML file you can download it at http://www.sharcmedia.com/kml/PatentsPerMillion2.kml http://www.sharcmedia.com/kml/PatentsPerMillion2.kml Regarding a finer grained heat map it would be cool, but I couldn't find any finer grained data (eg. by US Postcode) on the USPTO site.