Changes

*match Match the LBO data to the patent data

*Create Table firstjoin_cleaned: Join patent data to assignee data, creating firstjoin_cleaned. firstjoin_cleaned shows organization names of assignees from the patent data and their patent numbers:again, just look inside database

*Create Table secondjoin_cleaned: join firstjoin_cleaned to matchassignees data, creating secondjoin_cleaned. secondjoin_cleaned shows standardized organization names, organization names, and patent numbers

* OLD PROCESS (NOT USED ANYMORE) join secondjoin_cleaned to lbopatentmatch data, creating thirdjoin_cleaned. thirdjoin_cleaned shows LBO's names, standardized organization names, and their patent numbers in order to show lbo's that had patents: a text file of the final copy can be found here:: <code>Z:\allpatentsprocessed\LBO Patent Data Joined</code> create table lbopatentinfo showing lbo names, patent numbers, and grant dates of the patents use lbopatentinfo to create table lbopatentsummary to show lbo names, amount of patents they have, minimum grant date years, maximum grant date years, and average grant date years import lbo data matched against itself into table(lbodistinct), then use that table and lbopatentsummary to create to create lbofinal. lbofinal then shows distinct lbonames, number of patents, minimum grant year, maximum grant year, and average grant year use lbofinal to create lboreallyfinal. lboreallyfinal is the same as lbofinal but with null space in number of patents replaced with 0

*use lbopatentinfo to create table lbopatentsummary to show lbo names, amount of patents they have, minimum grant date years, maximum grant date years, and average grant date years *import lbo data matched against itself into table(lbodistinct), then use that table and lbopatentsummary to create to create lbofinal. lbofinal then shows distinct lbonames, number of patents, minimum grant year, maximum grant year, and average grant year *use lbofinal to create lboreallyfinal. lboreallyfinal is the same as lbofinal but with null space in number of patents replaced with 0 *FINAL DATA IN THE FOLLOWING FOLDER:<code>E:\McNair\Projects\LBO</code> * #After getting lboreallyfinal, create a table with all of its columns in addition to the lbo deal numbers, and whether it was public to private or private to private in the following steps #import LBOcleaneddata.txt into table dealnumbxcleannames. it will have the deal numbers and cleaned original lbo names (duplicates not removed) #import Originallbomatch.txt into table lbonamesxcleannames. it will have the matched standardized lbo names and the cleaned original lbo names #join those two tables together to reach the standardized lbo names with the deal numbers in table lbonamesxdealnumb, and create a column that says whether the deal was public to private or private to private in the table lboxpriv #join lbo_list_and_data and lbopatentmatch together using lboxpriv as a go between. this provides a reference in case we want to join using stdorgname to the patent database #join lbo_list_and_data and lboreallyfinal together using lboxpriv as a go between. this is the final table it can be found in the following folder under the name lbopatentsreallyfinal :<code>E:\McNair\Projects\LBO\Data Sets</code>