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Neue Publikation: Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990

Ann Hipp, Michael Fritsch, Maria Greve, Jutta Günther, Marcel Lange, Christian Liutik, Beate Pfeifer, Mariia Shkolnykova und Michael Wyrwich haben ein Forschungspapier mit dem Titel „Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990 “ in der Zeitschrift Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik veröffentlicht.

Zusammenfassung

: We document the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949–1990), which is freely available at GESIS doi.org/10.7802/2448. The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (later: German Patent and Trade Mark Office/DPMA). The core database covers the years 1950–1990 and contains 24 variables with manually cleaned and processed information on a total of 261,822 unique patents of the GDR.

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