Tuesday, August 23, 2011

NPL count by application authority in PATSTAT

Something easy after return from holidays: from what patenting authorities are generated NPL citations in patstat? here below the full list...


appl auth
# npl
'AP'
519
'AU'
28618
'BE'
5705
'BG'
4
'CH'
1242
'CY'
4
'CZ'
1063
'DE'
490233
'DK'
12
'EA'
5587
'EP'
2417006
'ES'
16730
'FI'
12
'FR'
260900
'GB'
52458
'GR'
2829
'IT'
3
'JP'
13651
'LU'
284
'NL'
11086
'NO'
10
'SG'
654
'TR'
2798
'US'
9887244
'WO'
1628253

Seems like the coverage of NPL is very partial, especially outside EU + US & WO (FI about 13.000 NPL citatios for JP patents is FI very an understatement).


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