By: Christian Vázquez
There is no doubt that there is currently a much-needed crusade in favor of gender equality in every sector of human life. A crusade to promote equality, respect and the development of equitable conditions so that men and women can carry out any activity without their gender being an impediment to it.
Unfortunately, the above is still far in many aspects. It is enough to take a magazine, watch a newscast, ramble through social networks or read articles on the internet (regardless of the branch they belong to), to realize the amount of articles that inform about the still existing gaps between men and women … salaries, opportunities and recognition. Regarding Intellectual Property, this is not an exception.
We’re going with some hard data. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ─Patent and Trademark Office of the United States, for its translation into Spanish─, recently published a report highlighting that the number of patents with female participatio) has increased from 7 to 21% of the total in your country, from 1980 to 2016, which clearly represents growth but still leaves much to be desired in terms of percentage. In addition, in that same 2016, only one 12% of the patents had as owner or creator a woman.
Another nation where the voice has already been raised on this issue is Spain. One of its most important media, El País, published an article last year stating that only one patent application is submitted under the signature of one woman for every 10 petitions registered by men. But this means does not stop there, also highlights that the applications submitted by women, either as holders or as a majority within the group that claims the patent, has less chance of obtaining it according to a study cited in said article and made by researchers from Yale University.
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