NGS Patstat supplementary data

The datasets included in the repository concern results obtained following patent searches performed by means of Patstat online (https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/business/patstat.html#tab-1). The SQL based scripts aimed at the analysis performed by means of Patstat online Autumn 2019 (pls. refer to "NGS Patstat data", Priore, Riccardo (2020), “NGS Patstat data”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/f45st2xmkj.1) are flanked by a collection of SQL scripts tested on the Patstat online Autumn 2020 edition. The codes of each script refer, exactly as in the former repository ("NGS Patstat data" regarding the nucleic acids' Next Generation Sequencing techniques) to the following kinds of analysis:
1) the script named 'C1' is essentially aimed at determining the amount of patent families corresponding to patent applications filed considering the Next Generation Sequencing techniques/tools.
2) The script named ‘N1’ (‘Normalization NGS’) allows to determine the number of patent applications specifically concerning the NGS matter and filed to different national patent authorities. It may be reasonably assumed that if one geographical area is much wider and characterised by a higher number of residents than a second one, in the former case a higher number of patent applications are filed than in the latter case. However, the evaluation may significantly change when dividing the number of the patent applications specifically concerning the NGS field by the number of patent applications filed to the same authority, though irrespectively of the technical item. This procedure is referred to as 'normalization'.
3) The scripts named ‘Q1 – Q5’ are the results of search criteria aimed at estimating the value of the pooled patent documents. Metrics to be used for such aim include the number of the triadic patent families, the ranking of the patent applicants based on the dimension of the patent family or on the average number of forward citations of a patent family.
4) The scripts named ‘S1 – S2’ are aimed at elucidating the collaborations occurred in a specific time-frame between one applicant and one patent attorney. Cases in which two applicants, having collaborated with the very same patent attorney, can be considered as competitors or collaborators (co-assignees according to the possibility of co-filing a patent application), could emerge by means of such search phase.

Differently from the analysis performed by means of the SQL scripts stored in "Patstat NGS" repository mentioned above, the SQL scritps provided in such new repository have been slightly modified to permit the analysis, performed by means of Patstat online, of a dataset regarding the NGS technologies and produced interrogating Orbit Intelligence. A preliminary elaboration of such Orbit dataset is based on Python and has been performed to rank the most relevant technical concepts dealing with the NGS technologies.