Patent Leaderboard - Ranking over 9 million patent inventors
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Patent Leaderboard surfaces the most prolific inventors, companies, and trends across U.S. patents. Built from real USPTO data, it lets you explore who’s actually driving innovation. Search by inventor, company, or domain to see who’s filing, who’s winning, and how the landscape is shifting.
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This is a really interesting idea, Mike. I’ve done ML research myself, and one of the hardest parts early on was figuring out where meaningful work was actually happening versus what only looked exciting from the outside.
This feels like it could have a unique use case for founder idea discovery too, beyond the usual pattern of searching
communities or news to see what people are talking about.
Curious what people are using it for so far: research discovery, competitive analysis, finding interesting inventors, or just exploring unexpected trends?
@danush_singla I think there's lots of options here. I'm starting to explore stock market returns of CEOs with patents vs without as an example right now. Lots of ways to cut this data :)
@todasco Okay, that is actually a really interesting rabbit hole.
Is there a specific industry you’re looking at first? And are you thinking about correlation vs causation between CEOs with patents and market success?
@danush_singla just measuring correlation for now. But seeing where that might take us :)
This is a direction I’d actually be interested in digging into more.
The interesting part to me is that patents might be a cleaner signal than a lot of the usual founder/investor narratives. You can market yourself as innovative, but patent history gives at least some evidence that technical invention actually happened.
I’d be interested in comparing notes sometime if you’re open to it. I’ve done ML research and have spent some time thinking about markets, so this is one of the few PH projects today that made me want to dig deeper.