Recently I had to try to understand how good is the coverage of patstat in terms of CPCs for some of the most relevant application authorities.
Obviously there is no benchmark data available, thus the main concept I used was a comparison of average number of Cpcs by application authority/year in order to display whether the baseline had some discontinuities.
I also dropped data where the number of applications was below 10k.
I display the results below.
A couple of short comments:
1) only few authorities seem to have discontinuities int their average number of CPCs: AT, BR and IT somehow.
2) average number of CPCs can differ much among patent offices (see FI values above 2 for MX, FR versus an average 0.2 for JP and 0.5 for CN); this seems to indicate difference in examination process, but values below 1 also indicate possible errors in data.
year
|
AT
|
AU
|
BR
|
CA
|
CN
|
DE
|
EP
|
ES
|
FR
|
GB
|
IT
|
JP
|
KR
|
MX
|
RU
|
SU
|
TW
|
UA
|
US
|
1990
|
1,5805
|
1,0222
|
1,2443
|
1,4408
|
0,319
|
0,6848
|
1,1223
|
1,5077
|
1,8886
|
0,9416
|
0,8238
|
0,1386
|
0,7823
|
|
|
0,115
|
|
|
0,7347
|
1991
|
1,8534
|
1,0777
|
1,2416
|
1,5371
|
0,2501
|
0,7081
|
1,1752
|
1,5672
|
1,9282
|
0,9396
|
0,7817
|
0,1468
|
0,6869
|
|
|
0,1497
|
|
|
0,7179
|
1992
|
2,0021
|
1,2314
|
|
1,634
|
0,2463
|
0,7133
|
1,1792
|
1,6628
|
1,968
|
0,9351
|
0,8025
|
0,1558
|
0,6441
|
|
|
0,1708
|
|
|
0,7021
|
1993
|
2,0424
|
1,2887
|
1,5505
|
1,7356
|
0,3428
|
0,7074
|
1,1998
|
1,7068
|
1,986
|
0,9856
|
0,8661
|
0,168
|
0,559
|
|
0,419
|
|
|
|
0,6926
|
1994
|
1,9649
|
1,0341
|
1,6268
|
1,6973
|
0,5032
|
0,6946
|
1,1794
|
1,7314
|
1,9676
|
0,9847
|
0,8669
|
0,2014
|
0,4896
|
|
0,5025
|
|
|
|
0,6595
|
1995
|
1,9811
|
1,0222
|
1,543
|
1,6666
|
0,5663
|
0,6806
|
1,1286
|
1,7256
|
1,9316
|
0,9925
|
0,8117
|
0,2011
|
0,4196
|
|
0,5805
|
|
|
|
0,5947
|
1996
|
1,9141
|
0,9888
|
1,5517
|
1,5929
|
0,5651
|
0,6548
|
1,0688
|
1,6665
|
1,876
|
0,9942
|
0,8342
|
0,2022
|
0,4373
|
|
0,5507
|
|
|
|
0,598
|
1997
|
1,9004
|
0,9449
|
1,4826
|
1,5193
|
0,5625
|
0,6324
|
0,9858
|
1,667
|
1,8377
|
0,9898
|
0,8288
|
0,2012
|
0,4574
|
|
0,584
|
|
|
|
0,5325
|
1998
|
1,8352
|
0,897
|
1,5285
|
1,4542
|
0,5681
|
0,6172
|
0,9136
|
1,6449
|
1,8431
|
0,9694
|
0,8305
|
0,1996
|
0,4092
|
|
0,568
|
|
1,0407
|
|
0,511
|
1999
|
1,7457
|
0,8469
|
1,455
|
1,4137
|
0,5214
|
0,6146
|
0,8547
|
1,6162
|
1,8554
|
0,9476
|
0,9134
|
0,2036
|
0,3617
|
|
0,5118
|
|
0,7697
|
|
0,461
|
2000
|
1,6225
|
0,7958
|
1,4826
|
1,3732
|
0,4663
|
0,6169
|
0,7965
|
1,6489
|
1,8563
|
0,9262
|
0,9536
|
0,1978
|
0,3027
|
|
0,5013
|
|
0,7841
|
|
0,3945
|
2001
|
1,656
|
0,7811
|
1,5078
|
1,3952
|
0,4516
|
0,6452
|
0,7667
|
1,6923
|
1,8714
|
0,9591
|
1,018
|
0,2014
|
0,3956
|
|
0,4893
|
|
0,7597
|
|
0,353
|
2002
|
1,7174
|
1,1174
|
1,5313
|
1,4065
|
0,4049
|
0,6962
|
0,7802
|
1,744
|
1,9083
|
0,9843
|
1,0718
|
0,2096
|
0,4178
|
2,2191
|
0,4933
|
|
0,7513
|
|
0,3497
|
2003
|
1,7458
|
0,8989
|
1,5068
|
1,4185
|
0,3647
|
0,736
|
0,7664
|
1,7436
|
1,9423
|
1,0343
|
1,0689
|
0,2152
|
0,3862
|
2,2894
|
0,514
|
|
0,5934
|
0,3853
|
0,3419
|
2004
|
1,7494
|
1,378
|
1,448
|
1,4239
|
0,3348
|
0,85
|
0,7282
|
1,7534
|
1,8975
|
1,1297
|
1,0841
|
0,2112
|
0,3122
|
2,2233
|
0,5591
|
|
0,537
|
|
0,3124
|
2005
|
1,7678
|
1,3685
|
1,4751
|
1,3627
|
0,2924
|
0,8675
|
0,6956
|
1,7406
|
1,9154
|
1,2638
|
1,1522
|
0,2116
|
0,3297
|
2,1751
|
0,6032
|
|
0,5286
|
|
0,2911
|
2006
|
1,8316
|
1,3601
|
1,4945
|
1,3074
|
0,2581
|
0,911
|
0,6806
|
1,8097
|
1,9235
|
1,3325
|
1,0348
|
0,2236
|
0,3352
|
2,3045
|
0,6156
|
|
0,5412
|
0,3992
|
0,2881
|
2007
|
2,0192
|
1,3467
|
1,475
|
1,287
|
0,2306
|
0,9558
|
0,6755
|
1,8217
|
1,9513
|
1,3541
|
1,0811
|
0,2324
|
0,3822
|
2,0726
|
0,6335
|
|
0,5729
|
0,3067
|
0,2803
|
2008
|
2,2159
|
1,4345
|
0,8578
|
1,3487
|
0,1984
|
0,9881
|
0,6757
|
1,8483
|
1,9885
|
1,3961
|
1,4127
|
0,2364
|
0,4006
|
|
0,6282
|
|
0,5591
|
0,2352
|
0,2864
|
2009
|
2,5456
|
1,4981
|
|
1,412
|
0,1637
|
1,0438
|
0,7061
|
1,8853
|
2,0335
|
1,3971
|
1,7341
|
0,2607
|
0,3819
|
2,0523
|
0,6939
|
|
0,5626
|
0,132
|
0,3034
|
2010
|
|
1,5006
|
|
1,4812
|
0,1395
|
1,0705
|
0,6947
|
1,8731
|
2,1195
|
1,449
|
1,8386
|
0,2692
|
0,388
|
2,1157
|
0,6558
|
|
0,5983
|
0,0535
|
0,2955
|
2011
|
|
1,4532
|
|
1,4864
|
0,1106
|
1,0637
|
0,6948
|
1,6421
|
2,1896
|
1,5088
|
1,8135
|
0,277
|
0,3975
|
2,1235
|
0,4225
|
|
0,5993
|
0,0403
|
0,2861
|
2012
|
|
1,2387
|
|
1,3143
|
0,0804
|
1,0109
|
0,6665
|
|
2,1202
|
1,4576
|
1,8017
|
0,2395
|
0,3442
|
2,0942
|
0,2363
|
|
0,5584
|
0,0367
|
0,2684
|
2013
|
|
0,5364
|
|
0,746
|
0,0437
|
0,7309
|
0,895
|
|
1,1866
|
0,7998
|
|
0,2894
|
0,2791
|
2,1296
|
0,0695
|
|
0,4253
|
|
0,2985
|