Inventors data in patstat: Epo vs uspto

Patstat stores data about applicants and inventors inside a table with the prefix TLS206, indexed using a field named PERSON_ID that can be linked to the applications via table TLS207_PERS_APPLN linking each person_id to an application id (appln_id)Patstat DVD provides two versions of TLS206: the first TLS206_PERSON is a comma separated value file containing mainly the fields name, address and country code.

TLS206_ASCII instead contains the same information already parsed (and also something more, see below for fields list): name is splitted into last, first and middle name; address into street, city, state and zip code.

Data origins for person names and addresses:


1) EPO Register for EP patent applications; details are those that were the most recent in the EP Register at the time of extraction of the data.

2) OECD patents database for US data post 1976-01-01 up to and including November 15th 2005 for Published Grants.

3) PATSTAT weekly file extracts from USPTO website for Published Grants from November 22nd 2005 until today;  Published Applications  from September 29th 2005 to today inclusive.

4) Inventor & Applicant names for US PTO Published Applications from March 1st 2001 to September 22nd 2005 from DOCDB ,  data-format="docdba".

5) all other names  from DOCDB , data-format="docdba" (US data for names and addresses for patents published before 1976-01-01 is taken from the EPO's DOCDB Database)

TLS206_ASCII FIELD LIST                           

prof-last-name
prof-first-name
prof-middle-names
prof-street
prof-city
prof-state
prof-zip-code

 

TLS206_person field list                      

Person_id                         

Person_name                 

Person_address                             

Person_ctry_code