CRIOS - Patstat Database: Sources, Contents and Access Rules

In this database the user can find, for European patent office based applications, disambiguated inventors and applicants' names as well as other standardized information that are often difficult to find in other patent databases.

This paper was written with the aim to provide a complete explanation of its content and also an overview on the steps that led to the creation of this source of information.

Keywords: Patents; academic patenting; inventor data; intellectual property; data cleaning

JEL Classification: C81

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Coffano, Monica and Tarasconi, Gianluca, CRIOS - Patstat Database: Sources, Contents and Access Rules (February 1, 2014). Center for Research on Innovation, Organization and Strategy, CRIOS Working Paper n.1, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2404344 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2404344