Patent Assignment Data Restructure

McNair Project

Patent Assignment Data Restructure
Project Information
Project Title	Patent Data Restructure
Owner	Marcela Interiano, Sonia Zhang
Start Date	201701
Deadline	201705
Keywords	Patent
Primary Billing
Notes
Has project status	Active
Subsumes:	Patent Data (Wiki Page)
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In order to restructure the current patent dataset, the data requires rigorous cleaning. The primary areas for improvement are:

1. Clean ptoassignment table to unique keys.

2. Clean ptoproperties to remove nonutility patents. The patent numbers currently include:

• 7 digit patent numbers
• application numbers
• unknown numbers that cannot be matched to patent numbers in the patent table

20090108066

20100007288

20090108066

20100110022

• Design and Reissue patents ('%D%' or '%RE%')
• alphanumeric character strings

3. Restructure address information in ptoassignee table to extract meaningful information

4. Verify that cleaned patent documentids correspond to patent numbers or application numbers in the patent table

5. Restructure address information in ptoassignment table

6. Transform structure of the dataset

Data Cleanup Progress

Patent Number Cleanup

The goal is to only have assignment records on utility patents. The patents in ptoproperty include alphanumerics which represent reissue and design patents as well as mistakes in the data input. Additionally, the documentids include application numbers or ids and publication numbers. The ptoproperty table stores the patent ids as character strings.

First the duplicates were dropped from the ptoproperty table creating ptoproperty_cleaned.

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT * FROM ptoproperty) As T; 
--27266638
 
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ptoproperty_cleaned;
--27266638

Next, the Reissue and Design patents were removed.

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ptoproperty WHERE documentid LIKE 'RE%';
--38512

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ptoproperty WHERE documentid LIKE 'D%';
--1128247

Restructure Address Information

The dbase is patent.

The table is ptoassigneend.

SQL code and other things are in:

E:/McNair/Projects/PatentAddress

IO files are on the dbase server in:

Z:/PatentAddress

1. Introduction:

• Five features (addrline1, addrline2, city, country, postcode) in the table contains address information.
• Features addrline1, addrline2 and city are not cleaned. They have city, country and postcode information.
• The object is to extract city, country and postcode information from three features above.
• By now, we only focus on and clean American patents.

2. Postcode Extraction:

U.S. post code follows the pattern [five digits] or [five digits - four digits]. U.S. patents can be extracted by searching for post code following these patterns using regular expression. Some other countries also use [five digits] for post code, so only post codes following [five digits - four digits] are extracted.

SQL code are in:

E:/McNair/Projects/PatentAddress/

The extracted records are stored in table ptoassigneend_missus.

Applied similar methods to filter out patent records from Japan. The post code in Japan follows pattern [three digits- four digits].

The post code extracted is quite accurate for U.S., and so is the country information.

The problem is that the city information extracted is not quite good. It messes up with street names. One approach to increase the accuracy is to list all the possible cities in each country, and then match the address columns to these cities, which is time consuming.