applicants: Patent Applicants
In poldham/drones: A Patent Dataset for Drone Technology

Patent applicant names (also known as assignees) from a set of 15,775 patent applications containing the word drone or drones published between 1845 and 2017 from the Clarivate Analytics Derwent Innovation database.

1	data("applicants")

A data frame with 15,776 observations of 6 variables:

application_number: The long application number including the date, a character vector
applicant: The patent applicant name (assignee name), 7746 89 percent of documents, a character vector
applicant_cleaned: A cleaned version of the applicant name, 6,929 names, a character vector
inpadoc_family_members: INPADOC Family Members in long format with dates, 49625 97 percent of documents, a character vector
inpadoc_first_family_member: The earliest publication number in the inpadoc_family_members based on the date, 9,020, 98 percent of documents, a character vector
priority_number: Patent priority numbers in long format with dates, 23382 99 percent of documents, a character vector

Patent data fields are commonly concatenated with a semicolon and require tidying for accurate counts. The cited_nonpatent field in this dataset contains irrelevant legal status information and is messy.

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poldham/drones documentation built on Dec. 26, 2021, 6:46 a.m.