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Singling out individual inventors from patent data

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    Identificador:  PC:2404
    Autors:  Gómez, Ismael; Miguélez, Ernest
    Resum:
    An increasing number of studies have sprung up in recent years seeking to identify individual inventors from patent data. Different heuristics have been suggested to use their names and other information disclosed in patent documents in order to find out “who is who” in patents. This paper contributes to this literature by setting forth a methodology to identify them using patents applied to the European Patent Office (EPO hereafter). As in the large part of this literature, we basically follow a three-steps procedure: (1) the parsing stage, aimed at reducing the noise in the inventor’s name and other fields of the patent; (2) the matching stage, where name matching algorithms are used to group possible similar names; (3) the filtering stage, where additional information and different scoring schemes are used to filter out these potential same inventors. The paper includes some figures resulting of applying the algorithms to the set of European inventors applying to the EPO for a large period of time.
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    Editor: Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
    Data: 2011-05
    Identificador: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/152090
    Departament/Institut: Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
    Idioma: eng
    Autor: Gómez, Ismael, Miguélez, Ernest
    Relació: XREAP; 2011-03
    Format: application/pdf, 491485 bytes, 46 p.
  • Paraules clau:

    33 - Economia
    Algorismes computacionals
    Inventors
    Patents d'invenció
    Computer algorithms
    Patents
    Inventor
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