OVERVIEW¶
Background¶
The patent system was institutionalised in France as early as 1791. However, the French patents published before 1900 have not been made publicly available in a digitised format.
Info
The French INPI has manually built a database of inventors' locations spanning over the 19th century. This database is however not publicly available. We are not aware of prior work trying to constitute a database of the location of patentees filing in France for the 1900-1980 period.
📚 Data source¶
| Patent office | Time span (publication year) | Kind code(s) |
|---|---|---|
| FR | 1902-1980 | A, A1 |
| Publication number (range) | Data source | Pre-processing | E.g. | Format # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR317502A-FR1569050A (excluded) | Espacenet | OCR | FR328212A | 1 |
| FR1605567A-FR2427761A | Espacenet | OCR | FR1595761A | 2 |
Done
In total, we consider 1,577,934 documents from 1902 to 1980.
🚜 Extraction schema¶
See the annotation guidelines.
🔮 Models¶
See the models card.
Other¶
See the geocoding and citizenship documentation.