dftwodates: IPOS: Key information of patent applications lodged between...

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 between two lodgement dates (both dates inclusive) 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

dftwodates(startdate, enddate = Sys.Date())

Arguments

startdate	The start date of lodgement date period, in the following format and in inverted commas: "YYYY-MM-DD".
enddate	The end date of lodgement date period, in the following format and in inverted commas: "YYYY-MM-DD".

Details

This function is a cumulative version of the dfbydate function in this package. The API Client is only able to retrieve applications by one date, and often analyses is done across multiple dates in one period. *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 lodged between two dates (both dates inclusive).

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