Querying utility models in France

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carmen.calatrava
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Querying utility models in France

Post by carmen.calatrava » Mon May 22, 2017 5:52 pm

Dear community,

I am retrieving the number of utility models filled in France between 1992 and 2016 with the following query:

SELECT COUNT(appln_id), appln_filing_year
FROM tls201_appln a
WHERE
appln_kind = 'U' -- only utility models
AND appln_auth = 'FR' -- only in France
AND appln_id < 900000000 -- exclude artificial applications
AND appln_filing_year>1991
AND appln_filing_year<2017
GROUP BY appln_filing_year
ORDER BY appln_filing_year

However, it does not return any data because France seems not to identify utility models (called "certificate of utility" in France) with the kind-code "U". My guess is that they are categorizing utility models as patents.

My question is: Could somebody shed some light on how to query utility models in France?

Thank you so much in advance and best regards,
Carmen


mkracker
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Re: Querying utility models in France

Post by mkracker » Tue May 23, 2017 9:49 am

Dear Carmen,

Your approach comes close. Unfortunately it does not work for France, because for FR there is no distinction in the type of application APPLN_KIND between patents and utility models. However, utility models can be identified by the kind of publications that are published. In the “Kind code concordance list” (http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patent ... gular.html ) you will find the short description of all publication kinds.

All this has already been taken into account in the attribute IPR_TYPE (type of the intellectual property right). As usual, see the Data Catalog for details.

So IPR_TYPE = ‘UM’ should give you the desired result.

Best regards,
Martin / EPO
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Martin Kracker / EPO


carmen.calatrava
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Re: Querying utility models in France

Post by carmen.calatrava » Fri Jun 02, 2017 5:40 pm

Thank you very much for your answer! Problem solved!


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