Patent Citation with PATSTAT
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:02 am
Hello
I have to analyse patent data for my thesis and my supervisor gave me an excel sheet with PATSTAT data for all the relevant companies. I have never worked with PATSTAT or patents in general before, therefore everything is pretty new to me.
For the patent analysis I have to include the column "nb_citing_docdb_fam". What does this column tell me? Is it a forward/backward citation? If a patent was granted and has like 50 in the "nb_citing_docdb_fam" column what does that mean for the patent?
I'm sorry for all the question, but I couldn't find information anywhere else
I have to analyse patent data for my thesis and my supervisor gave me an excel sheet with PATSTAT data for all the relevant companies. I have never worked with PATSTAT or patents in general before, therefore everything is pretty new to me.
For the patent analysis I have to include the column "nb_citing_docdb_fam". What does this column tell me? Is it a forward/backward citation? If a patent was granted and has like 50 in the "nb_citing_docdb_fam" column what does that mean for the patent?
I'm sorry for all the question, but I couldn't find information anywhere else