Data News Search Classification
IMPORTANT: For a useful catalog of innovation data, go to the Innovation information initiative
website, which supersedes some of the information below and adds much more.
NBER
patent data
Documentation from the
original NBER Patent Data Project
2006
edition of data - GO HERE FIRST FOR NBER PATENT DATA – this is the most
recent version of the NBER data, but it is somewhat out of date. You are
strongly advised to investigate the patent data available on the Innovation Information Initiative
website instead.
Some additional files for the 2006 edition on
my website
1999 NBER patent data files
(Hall, Jaffe, and Trajtenberg 2002 version)
Other
patent data:
Chilean IP firm data from WIPO-INAPI project,
from Maria-Jose Abud, Carsten Fink, Bronwyn H. Hall, and Christian Helmers
(2013).
USPTO
bulk downloads - bulk downloads available for a large range of USPTO data,
older verison (2015) at Google bulk
downloads.
PATSTAT
– collection of patent documents worldwide, curated by EPO and OECD, highly
recommended.
Match of US Patents to CRSP 1926-2010,
Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Noah Stoffman
Match
of EPO (European Patent Office) patent data to European firm data (including
R&D data) by Grid Thoma
This website also contains a match to US Amadeus data,
and some trademark information.
Japanese
Patent Office Data from IIP - The new IIP Patent database, produced under
the supervision of Akira Goto and Kazuyuki Motohashi. Data on 9 million
applications and 2.7 million registrations (grants) from the early 20th century
to January 2004. Includes citations and owner information.
Match of Chinese
patent data to firm names by Zilin He, Tony Tong, and Yuchen Zhang – this
project is a match of SIPO patents to firms in China’s ASIE 1998-2009 (“the
census data”). Utility, invention, and design patents are included in separate
files. It covers the years 1998-2009.
Harvard
Business School Patent Dataverse
Data on inventors from US patents, 1975-2010 with name disambiguation, by Ronald Lai, Alexander D'Amour, and Lee Fleming.
News
and information sites:
United States Patent and Trademark Office Home
Page
European Patent Office Home Page
Written Description Blog for
research paper summaries
Patent blog of Dennis Crouch for US patent
news
IPKat blog and newsletters for international patent news
Google Patent Search covers the entire
collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the
1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. They also include international
offices. BHH note: some patents appear to be missing
(e.g., 3930271, issued Jan 6 1976, the first one in the computerized data
base).
Full text search for patents from 1976. Patents from 1790 through 1975
are searchable only by Issue Date, Patent Number, and Current US
Classification.
The European Patent Office’s search site, which includes applications
and grants from the EPO, WIPO, and worldwide.
OECD
IP Statistics and Patent Data
Patent
classification systems:
USPTO patent classification
definitions
International patent
classifications, deep
link to table
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