Hi Geert, Thank you very much for all of your help so far. I was hoping you'd be able to help me on one further question. I want to examine which technologies have influenced the development of the technology I'm examining (hence the backward citations). Specifically, I want to identify the 'most im...

Hi Geert, Your reply was very useful for my research as well, but I am interested in 'cited technologies' (the technologies these patents have drawn on), instead of 'citing technologies'. I have purchased PATSTAT, but I'm having difficulties constructing a query for backward citations. Could you ple...

Thank you Nico! You make a good point about corporate ownership, I'll think about how to incorporate this in the research.

Dear All, I'm using the PATSTAT raw data, and am trying to discover which company has received the most patent citations for a specific CPC class. I've narrowed down the data to a list of application ID's relevant to the CPC class, so that I don't need to include that part in the coding every time. ...