File Name: link_WIPOapp_forpri_CNpub_appnum

Observations: 35,412

 

 

Description: This file determines links between file WIPOapp_for_priority (claiming foreign priority in China) and CNpub_basedat.  Specifically, we begin with the WIPO patent applications making a foreign priority claim based on a CN patent application, and we match this claim to the patents in the set CNpub_basedat.

                         For WIPO applications published in 2012, we don’t expect to find a match in our data set of Chinese published applications, because the last publication year in the Chinese file is 2010.  Applicants have one year to file based on foreign priority.  This explains why in the table at the bottom of the file, the match rate for WIPO applications published in 2012 is only 6.04 percent, and for 2011 is 47.32 percent.  For earlier years, the match rate is typically 93 to 95 percent.

 

Variables

 

 

Variable

Type

Len

Columns in Ascii File

Description

app_numfix

Char

12

1-12

link to CNpub_basedat (app_numfix is the unique index)

country2

Char

2

13-14

=CN throughout this file.  This it country where foreign priority in the WIPO application is being claimed

Pub_No

Char

20

15-34

Pub_no*for_pri_index is the link to WIPOapp_for_priority

for_pri_index

Num

8

35-42

see above

for_pri_record_WIPO

Char

40

43-82

the foreign priority record in WIPO 

for_priority_date

Char

10

83-92

the foreign priority date.

 

Table Showing Distribution of Matches by Year of Publication of WIPO Application

(We start with the 2,183,748 foreign priority claims in WIPOapp_ for_priority and select out 58,746 cases where the foreign priority claim is a CN patent.  We next select the 52,137 unique values of pub_no.  For each pub_no, we ask if there is at least one match in CNpub_basedat and the table below reports the results.

 

 

 

Counts

Percent

Not Matched

Matched

Not Matched

Matched

All

19,581

32,556

37.56

62.44

year_WIPOapp

12

152

7.32

92.68

1999

2000

34

162

17.35

82.65

2001

70

1,200

5.51

94.49

2002

34

710

4.57

95.43

2003

51

686

6.92

93.08

2004

67

1,052

5.99

94.01

2005

94

1,287

6.81

93.19

2006

204

2,080

8.93

91.07

2007

247

3,454

6.67

93.33

2008

228

4,475

4.85

95.15

2009

236

5,268

4.29

95.71

2010

619

6,493

8.70

91.30

2011

5,277

4,740

52.68

47.32

2012

12,408

797

93.96

6.04