Thanks Nico. Yes, in the end I'll want a table with DOCDB family IDs, appl_auth and different applicants (say Siemens, ABB, ...). But actually this table should contain all patents of a family, not just the priority patents. Now I'd like to count patent families for Siemens and ABB. But since the ap...

Dear all, I would like to investigate in which patent offices a specific applicant (say Siemens) files the same invention. Unfortunately I am not completely sure how to do it. So hopefully you can tell me, if I am on the right track with the following procedure: 1) Merge TLS201_APPLN with TLS218_DOC...