Scripts to collect statistics for patents from the german patent office (dpma) Unfortunately, the data set is not available to the public - but you can download about 68.000 patents from the dpma website. Choose the link from the row "Daten aus DPMAregister".

This script processes the given patents and extracts information about the country of application, the date, the document id and the applicants / inventors address. Expects the path to the folder containing the patents as input.

The information is stored in the patents folder in a file named result.csv (using ";" as delimeter). Please note that number of columns for applicants and inventors is not stable, there are up to N columns, depending on the information in the patents. Column format: Applicants_N_Name where N specifies the number of the applicant.

Please install plot.ly before using this script Currently, this script expects the path to the result.csv generated by convert_patents input and outputs a small frequency table