Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
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220 "Ü" "U"<br />
221 "Ý" "Y"<br />
159 "Ÿ" "Y"<br />
Implementation<br />
All occurrences of accented characters are replaced with their respective unaccented character<br />
equivalent, as defined in Table 9, by executing several update queries on the data.<br />
Results<br />
Accented characters have <strong>be</strong>en replaced with their unaccented equivalent in 19,934 names.<br />
There is no guarantee that single accented characters will <strong>be</strong> completely eliminated from the<br />
names, as an exhaustive list of all possible accented characters in all languages has not <strong>be</strong>en<br />
used.<br />
However, no other accented characters that can <strong>be</strong> represented as a single character, as<br />
defined by the standard ASCII/ANSI character code page, are present in the names.<br />
Impact<br />
From 440,206 unique names to 438,366 unique names, an additional reduction of 1,840 names,<br />
or a total reduction of 5,356 names (1.2%).<br />
1.1.5 Check for special characters<br />
Description<br />
After replacement of SGML coded characters, proprietary coded characters and accented<br />
characters, no special characters should remain. 'Special' refers to a character that is not<br />
expected in a name <strong>be</strong>cause it is not a letter, a digit, or a regular punctuation character.<br />
Analysis<br />
Special characters are identified by querying the data for characters that are not part of the<br />
following set of letters, digits and punctuation characters: A-Z; 0-9; “-“; “+”; “’”; “””; “#”; “*”;<br />
“@”; “!”; “?”; “/”; “&”; “(“; “)”; “:”; “;”; “,”; “.”; “ “.<br />
63 names were found to contain special characters but none of them are problematic for the<br />
harmonization (in any case, non-alphanumerical characters and spaces are removed in a further<br />
step).<br />
1.2 Punctuation cleaning (pre-parsing)<br />
1.2.1 Replace double spaces<br />
Description<br />
Double spaces should <strong>be</strong> replaced with a single space.<br />
Analysis<br />
Double spaces are identified by querying the data for names having the pattern “% %”.<br />
1,781 names were found to contain double spaces.<br />
Implementation<br />
All occurrences of double spaces are replaced with a single space by executing an update query<br />
on the data.<br />
Result<br />
Double spaces have <strong>be</strong>en replaced in 1,781 names.<br />
No other double spaces are present in the names.<br />
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