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Geocoding Inventor Locations (view source)
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*Spain ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_in_Spain Sourced from Wikipedia]): Post 1976 Spanish postcodes are five digits of the format NNMMM, where NN indicates the province (01-52) or a reserved code (e.g. 80 for P.O. boxes). In the patent data Spansish postcodes are comparatively well behaved, with the following standard variants appearing: NNNNN, NNN NN, NNNN, NN NNNNN, NN- NNNNN, -NNNNN, NNNNN-, "NN, NNNNN", NNN, NN, N NNNNN-, NN-NN, NN-NN NNNNN, NNNNN-IBI, E-NNNNN, E-NNNN, E - NNNNN, E--NNNNN, ES-NNNNN.
**Simple Regex: <tt>(E|ES|)\d{0,2},?\s?-{0,2}\s?\d{2,5}-?(IBI|)</tt>
*Switzerland ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Switzerland_and_Liechtenstein Sourced from Wikipedia]): Swiss (and Lictenstein) postcodes are heirarchical hierarchical four-digit numbers of the form District+Area+Route+PONumber, where districts are numbered West to East (would you expect less from the Swiss?). In the patent data Swiss postcodes are compartvely comparatively immaculately behaved with the following formats appearing: NNNN, NNNN-, CH-NNNN, CH - NNNN, CH NNNN, CHNNN, CH- NNNN, CHNNN. Though the "H" may sometimes be lowercase.
**Simple Regex: <tt>(CH|Ch|)\s?-?\s?\d{3,4}-?</tt>
==The Matching Process==
The matching process is carried out by [http://www.edegan.com/repository/MatchPatentLocations.pl MatchPatentLocationsMatchLocations.pl]script, and its dependent modules (detailed above), which has a standard pod based command line interface. The -co option specifies the ISO3166 country code to be matched.
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