AI RESEARCH
Unintended Negative Impacts of Promotional Language in Patent Evaluation
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.04926v1 Announce Type: new Promotional language has been increasingly used to aid the communication of innovative ideas in science. Yet, less is known about its role in the context of technological innovation. Here, we use a validated and domain-diagnosed lexicon of 135 promotional words to study the association between promotional language and patent evaluation outcomes among 2.7M USPTO patent applications. Our large-scale study reveals three unexpected findings.