Authors names format in WS responses
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:19 pm
Hello,
we are using OPS REST with JSON format.
When we get Bibliographic data back, inventors' names are provided as an unstructured string e.g.:
"Doe John, van der Viel Joan" which makes it tricky to decode as First name, LastName pairs.
However the EPO website patent search does provide a structured format as an alternative, e.g.:
"(Doe, John; van der Viel, Joan) " which is much easier to digest.
Does anyone know if and how the structured format can be retrieved through the API ?
thanks & regards,
pierre.
we are using OPS REST with JSON format.
When we get Bibliographic data back, inventors' names are provided as an unstructured string e.g.:
"Doe John, van der Viel Joan" which makes it tricky to decode as First name, LastName pairs.
However the EPO website patent search does provide a structured format as an alternative, e.g.:
"(Doe, John; van der Viel, Joan) " which is much easier to digest.
Does anyone know if and how the structured format can be retrieved through the API ?
thanks & regards,
pierre.