Actually what I did was to investigate the families with first filing @ DD and at least one EPO patent; it seems only 476 of them exist...(checking all families with at least one DD would probably get filing from west Germany extended to DDR) so it's likely to be a political issue...

dear all trying to select east Germany inventors @ EPO (DD) I found a very small number of them (about 359) compared to the high number of DD applications existing before 1990 I was wondering whether there could be some tipe of bias (political, geographic) in the data or if DD country code had been ...

dear all

I posted in my blog at
https://rawpatentdata.blogspot.it/2017/ ... ripts.html

a set of scripts for uploading into MySql PATSTAT 2017b data

any comment, suggestion and feedback are welcome

GT

Just published on Australian Economic Review, this article made by Gaétan de Rassenfosse (EPFL), Martin Kracker (EPO) and me provides a technical introduction to the PATSTAT Register database, which contains bibliographical, procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the Euro...

I did a similar exercise

you should work on publication numbers mainly matching them with TLS211, trying different combinations (leading zeroes etc)

good luck!

business as usual under mysql upload; could you please detail?

dear all

at this link

http://rawpatentdata.blogspot.it/2015/1 ... 2015b.html

it is possible to download mysql scripts for patstat new version!

hope it may be useful; any feedback is welcome

GL

dear all it's possible to download my scripts for mysql allowing to upload the majority of tables from ediction 2015a of patstat from my page: http://rawpatentdata.blogspot.it/2015/06/patstat-2015a-upload-scripts-for-mysql.html Be aware I uploaded the new TLS906 in TLS206 in order to make smoother t...

dear all

at link http://rawpatentdata.blogspot.it/2014/1 ... ripts.html
I posted upload scripts for mysql and some statistics

hope you'll find them helpful

GL

dear all in oct 2013 a big number of applications (140.700: all of them at EP application authority) instead of the correct reference to the inventor person_id TLS207 lists person id 96 whose name (see applicant) do not let us presume it is a valid entry... In order to fix it for the great majority ...