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The organizations covered by PatentPia are i) right holders of patents (applicant, current right holder, previous right holder, etc.), ii) parties to events, iii) patent agents, iv) organizations of persons such as authors of papers, v) commercial entities in the corporate-financial-economic-industrial and social/market/news data, and v) researchers at universities/research institutes.
Parties to events include i) plaintiffs/defendants in litigation, ii) claimants/defendants in trials as petitioners, iii) assignees/assignors in patent assignments, iv) declarant in standard patents, v) applicants/grantors in FDA approvals, vi) participants in government-funded R&D, etc.
If organizational data is not maintained, there is a serious loss of quality not only in search, but also in aggregation and analysis, and organizational data maintenance is essential for crossing over between two or more nations, two or more languages, or two or more heterogeneous data.
For Korean companies or organizations, we identify companies with the official mapping data between 'application number (granted by the intellectual property office) vs. corporate registration number/business number (granted by the nation)' provided by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). Because of this, the accuracy of the mapping is at an upper level, even with other numbers outside the patent world (e.g., listed company codes) that are matched 1:1 with the corporate registration number.
However, for overseas companies (e.g., Apple) that have applied to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, there is no 'application number (given by the intellectual property office) vs. corporate registration number (given by the nation)' mapping, so we only use the applicant code. As a result, the accuracy of mapping to data outside the patent world is limited.
However, within a nation, the applicant code, which is assigned at the level of the nation's intellectual property office, can be used with high reliability for mapping between 'Applicant Name vs. Applicant Code vs. Patent'. In other words, in countries such as Korea and Japan, which operate an applicant code system, the applicant code can be used to map patent sets. However, in the United States of America, China, Europe, etc., applicant codes are not open, so patent sets must be mapped by applicant name, and the accuracy is relatively lower than in Korea and Japan.
The first name can be divided into 'organization name' + 'organization type notation'. For example, in "Samsung Electronics co., ltd.", "Samsung Electronics" is the name of the organization and "co., ltd." is the type of organization. Representation of organization name is name representation. The reason for name representation is not only problems with organization name such as typos, spacing, tuning fork, partial omission, etc. in organization name representation, but also abbreviation (ltd.)/original representation (limited), omission of punctuation or unnecessary punctuation in organization type representation.