Hi,
I have PATSTAT 2013 April version and have a question regarding the variables in the tls206_ascii files as I am not able to find any documentation on the topic. I am trying to retrieve the geospatial distribution of patents across countries and is therefore particularly interested in knowing what the definition of the variable wk_country is. Is there any code book for these files?
Many thanks in advance!
NF
tls206_ascii
Re: tls206_ascii
The TLS206_ASCII table was never really part of PATSTAT, but for “the programmers only”. It contained a mixture of application data (TLS201_APPLN) and person data (tables TLS206, TLS207, TLS208), and unfortunately never was sufficiently documented.
You asked about the WK_COUNTRY attribute: It is just a copy of the APPLN_AUTH attribute of table TLS201_APPLN.
Because of this weak support of TLS206_ASCII, in the Oct 2013 edition of PATSTAT it has been replaced by the table TLS226_PERSON_ORIG. It now is treated as every other PATSTAT table:
• It can be loaded as every other table
• It is fully documented
• It contains the original name & address data, as taken from DOCDB, EP Register files and USPTO files. The structure of these sources is preserved, no data cleaning is taken place.
• It contains only address/name data, no other bibliographic data about application, publication or the the persons role (applicant and/or inventor)
• It is the bases of the cleaned names / addresses as found in table TLS206_PERSON.
More details can be found in the Data Catalog v5.00.
I highly recommend to stop using TLS206_ASCII of PATSTAT April 2013 and use table TLS226_PERSON_ORIG of the Oct 2013 edition instead.
Martin Kracker
EPO - PATSTAT
You asked about the WK_COUNTRY attribute: It is just a copy of the APPLN_AUTH attribute of table TLS201_APPLN.
Because of this weak support of TLS206_ASCII, in the Oct 2013 edition of PATSTAT it has been replaced by the table TLS226_PERSON_ORIG. It now is treated as every other PATSTAT table:
• It can be loaded as every other table
• It is fully documented
• It contains the original name & address data, as taken from DOCDB, EP Register files and USPTO files. The structure of these sources is preserved, no data cleaning is taken place.
• It contains only address/name data, no other bibliographic data about application, publication or the the persons role (applicant and/or inventor)
• It is the bases of the cleaned names / addresses as found in table TLS206_PERSON.
More details can be found in the Data Catalog v5.00.
I highly recommend to stop using TLS206_ASCII of PATSTAT April 2013 and use table TLS226_PERSON_ORIG of the Oct 2013 edition instead.
Martin Kracker
EPO - PATSTAT
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Re: tls206_ascii
The OECD REGPAT database might also be interesting for you, at least if you want to go beyond the country level.
http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/40794372.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/oecdpatentdatabases.htmpatent applications to the EPO and PCT filings linked to more than 5 500 regions using the inventors/applicants addresses (covering regions from selected countries outside the OECD area).
http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/40794372.pdf
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Data Manager
Daigu Academic Services & Data Stewardship
http://www.daigu.nl/
Nico Doranov
Data Manager
Daigu Academic Services & Data Stewardship
http://www.daigu.nl/