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" CO., AG" 4 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " GMBH & CO. AG" 4 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " (AG)" 4 AG Remove " CO. AG." 4 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " AG + CO" 3 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " AG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 3 AG Remove " AG CO." 3 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " A.-G." 3 AG Remove " AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT" 3 AG Remove " CO AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 3 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " CO., AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 2 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " + CIE AG" 2 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " A/G" 2 AG Remove " GMBH & CO AG" 2 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " AG + CO." 2 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " CIE. AG." 2 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " CIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 2 AG Replace with " COMPAGNIE" " AG & CO AG" 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, AG" 1 AG Remove " + CO AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" ", AG & CO." 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " + CO. AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " A.G. & CO." 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " A.G. AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 1 AG Remove ", A.G" 1 AG Remove " CO., A.G." 1 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT UND CO." 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " CIE. AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT" 1 AG Replace with " COMPAGNIE" " AKTIENGESELL-SCHAFT" 1 AG Remove " CIE. A.-G." 1 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " AG+ CO." 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " CO. A.G." 1 AG Replace with " COMPANY" " AG AND CO." 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" " GMBH & CO., AG" 1 AG Replace with " & COMPANY" The keyword to look for contains the identified spelling variation. For every spelling variation, the number of occurrences at the end of the string is indicated. The legal from contains the harmonized legal form (“AG” in this case). In general, abbreviations are used because several legal forms of different countries might have the same abbreviation (e.g. Société Anonyme and Sociedad Anónima), making it not always possible at the level of the name to identify the real underlying legal form. Additional address (country) information can be used to identify the exact legal form, although this can lead to misleading results for multinational companies. Mostly, the legal form indication can be removed at the end of the name (“Remove” in field REMARK) but, in some cases, some additional harmonization is carried out (e.g., in a name ending with “ CO. A.G.”, the real legal form “ A.G.” will be removed and the element “ CO.” will be replaced with “ COMPANY”). This harmonization is carried out for words that are not really part of the legal form but appear in combination with it, and that can be harmonized immediately. Table 16 contains some examples of word variations commonly appearing before a legal form indication and their harmonized equivalent. Table 16: Variations and harmonized equivalent of words commonly appearing before legal form indications VARIATIONS IN NAME HARMONIZED EQUIVALENT CO, CO., … “COMPANY” AND CO, AND COMPANY, … “& COMPANY” CIE, CIE., … “COMPAGNIE” ET CIE, … “& COMPAGNIE” INTL, INT’L “INTERNATIONAL” CORP, CORP., … “CORPORATION” MFG, MFG., … “MANUFACTURING” 31
Some legal form indications are not removed from the name because they are, to all intents and purposes, part of the name and removing them could make the underlying name less comprehensible. A typical example is the German Kommanditgesellschaft, abbreviated as “KG”. The part “gesellschaft” is part of the full name in a significant number of cases, as in “ESPE STIFTUNG & CO. PRODUKTION - UND VERTRIEBS KG”. To prevent mutilation of these kinds of name, “KG” will not be removed from the name. In one of the next steps - common company word removal - “KG” will be removed to obtain a reduced name that can be used for searching related names. Table 15 also shows that the order of removing and harmonizing legal form indications is important. It is clear that " + CO. AG" should be replaced with “ & COMPANY” before removing “ AG”. All 1,060 spelling variations of legal forms occurring at the end of names were converted in search and replace statements or rules, as listed in Table 15. All these rules and spelling variations were validated. For every rule or spelling variation, all names containing the spelling variation were scanned to be certain that the rule only affects actual legal form indications. If the number of occurrences was higher than 500 (47 of the 1,060 spelling variations), only a sample of 500 names was checked. A rule or search and replace statement is withheld only if more than 99% of found spelling variations are actually legal form indications. As the vast majority of rules resulted in 0 mistakes, the overall accuracy is greater than 99%. The full list of all search and replace statements for legal forms to be removed at the end of a name can be found in Appendix 2. It has to be stressed that the objective is not to maximize the total number of matches (at the cost of introducing mismatches) but to minimize the number of mismatches given a reasonable number of matches. This means that a considerable number of legal form indications will still be present in the names after legal form removal. On the one hand, only legal forms that were identified on the basis of the top 40 occurring last words were removed and harmonized, leaving a substantial number of legal forms unchanged. On the other hand, not all spelling variations of identified legal form indications were removed because some of the occurrences might have nothing to do with legal form indications but may be mere coincidences. In addition to the real legal form removal and harmonization, some other words, commonly used in a company context, appearing as last words were also harmonized: • “CO” was harmonized to “COMPANY”. Preceding “+”, “AND”, “U”, or “UND” were harmonized to “&” • “AND” preceding “COMPANY” was harmonized to “&” • “ CORP” was harmonized to “ CORPORATION” • “ E C.” was harmonized to “ & COMPANY” • “ & C.” and “ & C” were harmonized to “ & COMPANY” At this stage, only legal form indications appearing at the end of a name were removed and harmonized. In some countries, legal form indications can also appear in front of company names. The approach described above for last words can also be used for first words. Table 17 contains the top 50 occurring first words after cleanup, together with the number of names containing the word as a first word, the cumulative number of names for this word and all higher ranked words, and the percentage of the cumulative number of names compared to the total number of names (443,722). First words are identified on the basis of the first occurrence of a space in a name, then all non-(A-Z) and non-(0-9) characters are removed resulting in a cleaned version of the first word. Appendix 4 contains the list of the top 200 occurring first words. FIRST WORD (CLEANED) Table 17: Top 50 occurring first words NBR NAMES CUM % FIRST WORD (CLEANED) NBR NAMES CUM % 32
Page 1 and 2: Data Production Methods for Harmoni
Page 3 and 4: Table of contents 1 Introduction...
Page 5 and 6: 2 PATENTEE NAME HARMONIZATION AND L
Page 7 and 8: 3.2 DERWENT WPI company name harmon
Page 9 and 10: Figure 1: Overview schema name clea
Page 11 and 12: 4.2.3 Spelling variation harmonizat
Page 13 and 14: 6 DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMEN
Page 15 and 16: A considerable number of name varia
Page 17 and 18: IBM INTERNATION BUSINESS MACHINES I
Page 19 and 20: DIAGNOSTICS MITSUBISHIJUKOGYO MITSU
Page 21 and 22: APPENDIX 1: STEP-BY-STEP METHODOLOG
Page 23 and 24: 1.1.3 Replace propriety coded chara
Page 25 and 26: 220 "Ü" "U" 221 "Ý" "Y" 159 "Ÿ"
Page 27 and 28: Impact From 438,069 unique names to
Page 29 and 30: “%,GMBH.%” “, GMBH.” “%,G
Page 31 and 32: 2 NAME CLEANING 2.1 Legal form indi
Page 33: INCORPORATED Incorporated AS Akties
Page 37 and 38: " GMBH & CO. KG " 191 GMBH Replace
Page 39 and 40: "AND COMPANY" 120 "& COMPANY" 10,90
Page 41 and 42: "TECHNOLOGIES" 7,587 "TECHNOLOGY" "
Page 43 and 44: marked in the previous step as a na
Page 45 and 46: 3 HARMONIZATION RESULTS As the fina
Page 47 and 48: 13 37 12 35 11 61 10 82 9 136 8 179
Page 49 and 50: 3.3 Patent distribution amongst pat
Page 51 and 52: product). Appendix 5 contains the t
Page 53 and 54: The absolute differences in the num
Page 55 and 56: 1056 ", IN.C" 4 INCORPORATED Remove
Page 57 and 58: 1199 " MFG., LTD." 23 LIMITED Repla
Page 59 and 60: 1314 " (I.P) LIMITED" 1 LIMITED Rem
Page 61 and 62: 1450 " P.L.C." 60 PLC Remove 1451 "
Page 63 and 64: 1585 " A.S." 240 AS Remove 1586 " A
Page 65 and 66: 1715 CO." " GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H & CO
Page 67 and 68: 1844 " AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT & CO. KG"
Page 69 and 70: 1981 " MBH." 19 GMBH Remove 1982 "
Page 71 and 72: 2053 " KOGYOLKABUSHIKI KAISHA" 1 20
Page 73 and 74: LAST WORD NBR OF CUM % LAST WORD NB
Page 75 and 76: FIRST WORD NBR OF CUM % FIRST WORD
Page 77 and 78: 52 NIKON CORPORATION 4,500 615,317
Page 79 and 80: 177 UNISYS CORPORATION 1,653 942,72
Page 81 and 82: 54 HENKEL KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT AUF
Page 83 and 84: 177 CASIO COMPUTER COMPANY 1,848 1,
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