dfbydate: IPOS: Key information of patent applications by lodgement...

In joellynh/iposscan: Scan through IP applications through the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) API

Description

This function is for the API of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). It retrieves key information* on patent applications by lodgement date and tidies it into a clean dataframe. More info on API here: https://data.gov.sg/dataset/ipos-apis?resource_id=6a030bf2-22da-4621-8ab0-9a5956a30ef3.

Usage

dfbydate(date)

Arguments

date	The particular lodgement date, in the following format and in inverted commas: "YYYY-MM-DD".

Details

This function does not use the jsonlite package to parse the API's JSON output (function was built before discovering jsonlite and building function getbydate in this package). Instead it cleans the data from the JSON list of lists into an easily understandable dataframe. *Key information include the following variables from the API: "summary.applicationNum", "summary.applicationStatus", "summary.applicationType", "summary.filingDate", "summary.lodgementDate", "summary.titleOfInvention", "inventors.name", "inventors.address", "inventors.countryOfResidence.description", "inventors.countryOfResidence.code", "inventors.nationality", "applicant.uenCompanyCode", "applicant.name", "applicant.address", "applicant.countryOfIncorporationOrResidence.description", "applicant.stateOfIncorporation.description", "applicant.stateOfIncorporation.code", "applicant.nationality.description".

Value

Dataframe of key information of patent applications on the particular lodgement date.

joellynh/iposscan documentation built on Dec. 16, 2019, 12:43 a.m.