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The IIP Patent Database
The IIP Patent Database
The Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) patent database (DB) is the DB developed for patent statistics analysis based on arrangement standardization data.
It is considered to contribute to the industrial prosperity of our country through the research of patent statistics to have economists use this IIP patent DB and to make it spread through a world.
So, the IIP exhibits the data file of the IIP patent DB for aiming at further spread and promotion of patent statistics research.
In addition, the use of IIP patent DB file is restricted to the scientific purpose only, and it cannot be used for any commercial purpose. Only the person who agrees to the following User Agreement can use this data file.
Outline of data files for the IIP patent DB
The IIP patent DB was created based on the arrangement standardization data to the 23nd creation in 2011 fiscal year, and consists of the following five data files (ASCII CSV file).
- (1) Patent application file
- (2) Patent registration file
- (3) Applicant file
- (4) Rights holder file
- (5) Citation information file
- (6) Inventor file
- (7) Applicant correlate file
- (8) Inventor correlate file
- (9) Rights holder correlate file
Since each data file has large capacity, it is offered by the compressed file (zip form).
Please uncompress and then use.
Please note that it may take long time to transfer the data when the internet is connected in a narrow band such as a regular telephone or ISDN lines, since the compressed file has also large file capacity.
Moreover, since each data file (ASCII CSV file) has many records, it cannot be opened by Microsoft Excel. Please execute data conversion and use with DB software.
Please refer to this document when you use the IIP patent DB.
Akira Goto, Kazuyuki Motohashi, Construction of a Japanese Patent Database and a first look at Japanese patenting activities, Research Policy, Volume 36, Issue 9, November 2007, Pages 1431-1442.
Please inform us by e-mail support@iip.or.jp when you publish your papers using the IIP patent DB.
- ●Reference: Akira Goto and Kazuyuki Motohashi, "Construction of Japanese Patent Database for Research on Japanese patenting activities"(Working paper version)
(338KB)※If you discover any problem with the IIP patent DB, please inform by e-mail support@iip.or.jp