Patent Data Cleanup (June 2016)

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This page contains the script that was used to clean up the patents and assignees tables in allpatent.

Script

ALTER TABLE patents
RENAME COLUMN patentnumber TO patent;

ALTER TABLE patents
 DROP COLUMN kind,
 DROP COLUMN title,
 DROP COLUMN ussubclass, **
 DROP COLUMN maingroup, --
 DROP COLUMN subgroup,--
 DROP COLUMN cpcsubclass, ++
 DROP COLUMN cpcmaingroup, ++
 DROP COLUMN classificationnationalcountry,
 DROP COLUMN classificationnationalclass,** (?)
 DROP COLUMN primaryexaminerfirstname,
 DROP COLUMN primaryexaminerlastname,
 DROP COLUMN primaryexaminerdepartment,
 DROP COLUMN filename;

UPDATE patents
 SET type = '2015'
 WHERE type != 'NULL';

-- RESULT : UPDATE 1646225

UPDATE patents
 SET type = '2010'
 WHERE type = 'NULL';
-- RESULT : UPDATE 3764926

/* Join the historical patent data from the US PTO with the patents table */

ALTER TABLE PATENTS
 ADD COLUMN nber INT,
 ADD COLUMN uspc varchar,
 ADD COLUMN uspc_sub varchar;

UPDATE patents p
 SET nber = hp.nber,
 uspc = hp.uspc,
 uspc_sub = hp.uspc
  FROM historicalpatentdata hp
  WHERE hp.patentnumber = CAST(p.patent AS varchar);

-- RESULT : UPDATE 5113655

/* Mergeing some columns - claims and number of claims - column name : claims*/
UPDATE patents
 SET claims = numberofclaims
 WHERE claims = -1;
-- RESULTS : UPDATE 1646225

/* Merging columns - 
UPDATE patents
 SET appnum = CAST (applicationnumber AS INT)
 where appnum = -1;
-- RESULT : UPDATE 1646225

UPDATE patents
 SET appdate = filingdate
 where appdate = '0001-01-01 BC'
 OR filingdate is not NULL;

-- RESULT UPDATE 1646225

ALTER TABLE patents
 DROP COLUMN apptype;

/* Generating GYear and AppYear from the dates */
UPDATE patents
 SET gyear = EXTRACT(year from grantdate)
 WHERE gyear = -1
 AND grantdate IS NOT NULL;
UPDATE 1646225

UPDATE patents
 SET appyear = EXTRACT(year from appdate)
 WHERE appyear = -1 
 AND appdate is not null;
-- RESULT UPDATE 1646225

/* Test Script */
SELECT patentnumber, ussubclass, maingroup, subgroup, cpcsubclass, cpcmaingroup, cpcsubgroup, classificationnationalcountry, classificationnationalclass FROM Patents LIMIT 100;

patent               | integer           | not null
 grantdate            | date              |
 type                 | character varying |
 applicationnumber    | character varying |
 filingdate           | date              |
 prioritydate         | date              |
 prioritycountry      | character varying |
 prioritypatentnumber | character varying |
 cpcsubgroup          | character varying |
 numberofclaims       | integer           |
 pctpatentnumber      | character varying |
 claims               | integer           |
 appnum               | integer           |
 gyear                | integer           |
 appdate              | date              |
 appyear              | integer           |
 nber                 | integer           |
 uspc                 | character varying |
 uspc_sub             | character varying 

/* Drop the merged columns */

ALTER TABLE patents
 DROP COLUMN numberofclaims,
 DROP COLUMN filingdate,
 DROP COLUMN applicationnumber,
 DROP COLUMN type;

UPDATE patents
 SET prioritycountry = NULL
 WHERE prioritycountry = 'NULL';

UPDATE patents
 SET pctpatentnumber = NULL
 WHERE pctpatentnumber = 'NULL';

UPDATE patents
 SET prioritypatentnumber = NULL
 WHERE prioritypatentnumber = 'NULL';

UPDATE patents
 SET cpcsubgroup = NULL
 WHERE cpcsubgroup = 'NULL';

UPDATE patents
 SET appnum = NULL
 WHERE appnum = -1;

UPDATE patents
 SET gyear = NULL
 WHERE gyear = -1;

UPDATE patents

 SET appyear = NULL
 WHERE appyear = -1;

Results:

allpatent=# ALTER TABLE patents
allpatent-# DROP COLUMN numberofclaims,
allpatent-# DROP COLUMN filingdate,
allpatent-# DROP COLUMN applicationnumber,
allpatent-# DROP COLUMN type;
ALTER TABLE
allpatent=#
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET prioritycountry = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE prioritycountry = 'NULL';
^[[BUPDATE 3764926
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET pctpatentnumber = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE pctpatentnumber = 'NULL';
UPDATE 3764926
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET prioritypatentnumber = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE prioritypatentnumber = 'NULL';
UPDATE 3764926
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET cpcsubgroup = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE cpcsubgroup = 'NULL';
UPDATE 3764926
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET appnum = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE appnum = -1;
UPDATE 0
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET gyear = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE gyear = -1;
UPDATE 0
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE patents
allpatent-# SET appyear = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE appyear = -1;
UPDATE 0
allpatent=#

UPDATE assignees
 SET lastname = NULL
 WHERE lastname = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET firstname = NULL
 WHERE firstname = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET address = NULL
 WHERE address = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET postcode = NULL
 WHERE   postcode = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET patentcountry = NULL
 WHERE patentcountry = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET nationality2 = NULL
 WHERE nationality2 = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET residence = NULL
 WHERE residence = 'null';

UPDATE assignees
 SET asgseq = NULL
 WHERE asgseq= -1;

UPDATE assignees
 SET asgtype = NULL
 WHERE asgtype = -1;

RESULTS:

UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET lastname = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE lastname = 'null';

UPDATE 3818842
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET firstname = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE firstname = 'null';
UPDATE 3818842
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET address = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE address = 'null';
UPDATE 3818842
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET postcode = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE   postcode = 'null';
UPDATE 3818842
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET patentcountry = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE patentcountry = 'null';
UPDATE 3818842
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET nationality2 = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE nationality2 = 'null';
UPDATE 1607714
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET residence = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE residence = 'null';
UPDATE 1607714
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET asgseq = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE asgseq= -1;
UPDATE 1607714
allpatent=#
allpatent=# UPDATE assignees
allpatent-# SET asgtype = NULL
allpatent-# WHERE asgtype = -1;
UPDATE 1607714
allpatent=#

CREATE DATABASE allpatent_clone WITH TEMPLATE allpatent OWNER dbuser;

Renaming Tables and Columns

To standardize table and column names, and to make them as user-friendly as possible, a few tables and columns have been renamed.

• allpatent database -> patent
• assignees -> assignee
• judges -> judge
• citations -> citation
• matchassignees -> MatchOrgNames
• patents -> patent
• assignees -> ptoassignee
• assignments -> ptoassignment
• assignors -> ptoassignor
• patentassignment -> ptopatentfile
• properties -> ptoproperty
• mslfee -> feestatus
• patentmaintenancefee -> fee