Avoiding the temptation to start an everylot bot for Indianapolis, or to try to figure out the rate of patenting by city size over time
I always wanted to graph patent applications over time to see if "a good idea whose time has come" is a real thing
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Sure seems like certain ideas are in the air at certain times. So plotting what category gets the most applications by time?
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(i.e. wherher the same idea actually crops up everywhere independently at once-or not)
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Oh, whether multiple people submit the same thing, with the late applicants getting rejected?
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this is what I meant, yes!
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D'oh! I was thinking of a paper by Merton, not Simonton. Anyway, that Wikipedia article has a lot of juicy references
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love this! I was last obsessively interested with this project/idea in ~2008 I think Wikipedia didn't have this then
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It's been studied - I seem to recall Dean Keith Simonton wrote a book (?) about it. Anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery …
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