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Patent Families Dataset

location: https://storage.googleapis.com/jmk_public/Younge-Kuhn_Patent_Families_2017-09-25.csv

contributors: Kenneth Younge, Jeffrey Kuhn

tags: patent family, similarity

timeframe: 2005-2014

terms of_use: These datasets are provided to the public subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. No co‑authorship is required to use the data in academic research — please just cite the supporting article.

documentation: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2709238

description: Patent applicants frequently file groups of patent applications linked together by priority claims. These priority claims create families of patent applications that share features such as inventors, priority dates, and technical descriptions. By analyzing these linkages, each patent can be assigned a family identifier that it shares with other patents in the same family. This data set includes two levels of family identifiers (clone for near copies, and extended for more attenuated linkages) for each patent issued 2005-2014

last edit: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:38:43 GMT