German Patents
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".
convert_patents
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.
postprocess_data
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