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A flexible, scaleable approach to the international patent 'name game'

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  • Mark Huberty
  • Amma Serwaah
  • Georg Zachmann

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The inventors in PATSTAT are often duplicates- the same person or company may be split into multiple entries in PATSTAT, each associated to different patents. In this paper, we address this problem with an algorithm that efficiently de-duplicates the data. It needs minimal manual input and works well even on consumer-grade computers. Comparisons between entries are not limited to their names, and thus this algorithm is an improvement over earlier...

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  • Mark Huberty & Amma Serwaah & Georg Zachmann, 2014. "A flexible, scaleable approach to the international patent 'name game'," Working Papers 850, Bruegel.
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    2. Vetle I. Torvik & Marc Weeber & Don R. Swanson & Neil R. Smalheiser, 2005. "A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: A model for author name disambiguation," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 56(2), pages 140-158, January.
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    1. Michele Peruzzi & Georg Zachmann & Reinhilde Veugelers, 2014. "Remerge- regression-based record linkage with an application to PATSTAT," Working Papers 852, Bruegel.

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