Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be

The following characters were identified for removal if they appear at the end of a name: “,”;
”;”; “:”; “-“.
Implementation
Firstly, all occurrences of “ DITE:”, “ DITE,” and “DITE :” at the end of names are removed by
executing an update query on the data.
Next, all occurrences of “,”; “;“; “:”; “-” are removed at the end of a name by executing an
update query on the data.
As the removal of irrelevant characters at the end of a name can lead to trailing spaces, names
have to be checked for and trimmed of trailing spaces after removal of irrelevant characters at
the end of a name.
The removal of characters at the end of a name can also lead to a new irregular name ending,
so this step has to be executed several times until no further irregularities are found.
Result
Irrelevant non-alphanumerical characters at the end of a name have been removed in 1,498
names.
Impact
From 438,052 unique names to 437,689 unique names, an additional reduction of 363 names,
or a total reduction of 6,033 names (1.4%).
1.2.6 Replace comma irregularities
Description
A comma should be followed by a space and not be preceded by a space. A comma not followed
by a space or preceded by a space means some irregularity in most cases.
Analysis
Firstly, comma irregularities based on commas not followed by a space are identified by
querying the data for names having the pattern “%,[! ]%”.
624 names were identified having a comma not followed by a space.
A pattern and case-based approach is used to clean irregularities instead of blindly adding a
space after every comma not having a space. A fully automated approach is dangerous because
a comma might be a decimal, a thousand separator, or can appear as an abbreviation indicator
instead of a dot.
Table 10 contains most occurring patterns containing a comma not followed by a space found in
the names.
Table 10: Patterns with comma not followed by space
PATTERN REPLACE WITH
“% CO.,LTD.%” “ CO., LTD.”
“% CO.,LTD%” “ CO., LTD”
“% CO,. LTD.%” “ CO., LTD.”
“% CO.,INC.%” “ CO., INC.”
“%,LTD.%” “, LTD.”
“%,LTD” “, LTD”
“%,INC.%” “, INC.”
“%,INC” “, INC”
“%,LLC.%” “, LLC.”
“%,LLC” “, LLC”
“%,L.L.C.%” “, L.L.C.”
“%,S.A.R.L.%” “, S.A.R.L.”
“%,S.A.%” “, S.A.”
“% CO,LTD” “ CO, LTD”
“% CO,KG.%” “ CO, KG.”
“% CO.,KG” “ CO., KG”
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