PATSTAT revisited

Tarasconi Gianluca and Byeongwoo Kang ()

No 527, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: This study provides a comprehensive summary of and guidance for using the EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT), one of the most widely used patent databases for researchers. We highlight the three most important issues that PATSTAT users must consider when performing patent data analyses and suggest ways to deal with those issues. Although PATSTAT is chosen in this study, the issues that we discuss are also applicable to other patent databases.

Keywords: Developed countries; Europe; Patents; Intellectual property; Information technology; Information retrieval; PATSTAT; Patent data analysis; Innovation studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O39 Y20 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-01
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Published in IDE Discussion Paper = IDE Discussion Paper, No. 527. 2015-04-01

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