EPO appeal decisions "citation index'

claessen · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:48 am

Dear colleagues,

out of a 'Schnapsidee' (crazy idea) of a friend I built a 'citation index'/ranking for EPO appeal decisions:

http://www.ipnewsflash.com/charts.php

The information is based on all decisions of the EPO boards of appeal available from the EPO-website since 30 April 1999. In addition, all older G-decisions have been considered. "overall citations" stands for the overall number of other decisions citing this particular decision. "citations/year" stands fro the number of times that this particular decision was cited per year in other decisions. The time in days since the decision date until today is used for calculation.

Its free to use. Feedback welcome. Have fun!

Regards,

Rolf Claessen

claessen · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:58 am

I have now also added all older decisions to the database that have been cited by decisions after 1999.

http://www.ipnewsflash.com/charts.php

Best regards,

Rolf

claessen · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:20 am

BTW:

Feel free to link to the statistics of a particular decision using a link like

http://www.ipnewsflash.com/charts.php?d ... =G_0001/03

The number of the decision must be 4 digits and don't forget the underscore.

Have fun!

claessen