First grant in Germany

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Sam
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First grant in Germany

Post by Sam » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:38 pm

hi everybody,

I am analyzing bilateral patent flows (a patent flow is the flow of a patent from it's priority country to a new one). I do this by using the DOCDB patent-family.
When looking at patent flows to Germany everything looks fine, but when I look at the patents flowed to Germany, which in a later stage got a grant (publn_first_grant = 1), the patent flows diminishes to around 5% compared to the flow without the grant-condition. Is there anything special about Germany handling it's first grants?

thank you for your inputs


nico.rasters
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Re: First grant in Germany

Post by nico.rasters » Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:26 pm

Which version of PATSTAT are you using?
Would it be possible to post your queries here?
Did you compare Germany with other countries?

I have little experience with grants, so I can not say if 5% is out of the ordinary.
I would guess that Germans publish in German as well as English, thus increasing the number of publications.
Also, on http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/ro/ro100_107.html there is mention of Germany, Japan and Korea as being odd ducks.
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