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March 2017: dnum-type added to citations
dnum-typeis an attribute added to citations in order to distinguish between publication and application numbers.
In order to avoid a complete reload of patent citations, we only add the dnum-type attribute to cited applications. If no dnum-type attribute is present on the patcit element then the citation is referencing a publication.
As a result, 77,786 records having cited applications have been reloaded. Below you can see on example:
<patcit mxw-id="PCIT377701692" load-source="docdb" ucid="CN-201420631033-U" dnum-type="application">
<document-id format="epo">
<country>CN</country>
<doc-number>201420631033</doc-number>
<kind>U</kind>
<date>20141028</date>
</document-id>
<sources>
<source name="APP" created-by-npl="N"/>
</sources>
</patcit>
March 2017: We start loading TW data
We started loading the back file of TW data early March. Premium+ subscribers can already have access to this data that we plan to complete in the next few weeks. We plan to cover applications, granted patents as well as utility models published from 2000.
March 2017: Reload of euro-PCT claims finished
Euro-PCT records reload is now complete. We solved format issues found in the original data, so there are no longer any claims with an empty num attribute in our EP collection.
This reload fixed:
- Approximately 520,000 EP records published between 1978 and 2012 with missing claim numbers (e.g. EP-0000252-B1)
- Approximately 1 million EP records with format issues in the claims element (e.g. EP-0006849-A1)
Feb 2017: Upcoming reloads
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