Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be

APPENDIX 4: TOP 200 OCCURRING FIRST
WORDS
The top 200 occurring first words after data pre-processing, 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. Used to identify legal form indications occurring at the
beginning of a name.
FIRST WORD NBR OF CUM % FIRST WORD NBR OF CUM %
(CLEANED)
NAMES
(CLEANED) NAMES
1 THE 5,489 5,489 1.2% 51 LE 280 36,837 8.3%
2 5,385 10,874 2.5% 52 NIHON 275 37,112 8.4%
3 SOCIETE 2,477 13,351 3.0% 53 INNOVATIVE 274 37,386 8.4%
4 KABUSHIKI 1,293 14,644 3.3% 54 MARTIN 273 37,659 8.5%
5 ADVANCED 1,076 15,720 3.5% 55 MEDICAL 271 37,930 8.5%
6 AMERICAN 943 16,663 3.8% 56 LA 271 38,201 8.6%
7 INTERNATIONAL 936 17,599 4.0% 57 BOARD 269 38,470 8.7%
8 VAN 923 18,522 4.2% 58 BROWN 268 38,738 8.7%
9 NIPPON 861 19,383 4.4% 59 THOMAS 268 39,006 8.8%
10 DE 767 20,150 4.5% 60 INDUSTRIAL 268 39,274 8.9%
11 UNIVERSITY 686 20,836 4.7% 61 F 255 39,529 8.9%
12 INSTITUT 615 21,451 4.8% 62 RESEARCH 253 39,782 9.0%
13 HITACHI 604 22,055 5.0% 63 DEUTSCHE 250 40,032 9.0%
14 NATIONAL 595 22,650 5.1% 64 VON 249 40,281 9.1%
15 JAPAN 544 23,194 5.2% 65 OY 249 40,530 9.1%
16 UNITED 540 23,734 5.3% 66 INSTITUTE 249 40,779 9.2%
17 J 532 24,266 5.5% 67 MATSUSHITA 248 41,027 9.2%
18 A 519 24,785 5.6% 68 JOHN 246 41,273 9.3%
19 GENERAL 515 25,300 5.7% 69 GLOBAL 241 41,514 9.4%
20 NEW 499 25,799 5.8% 70 PACIFIC 238 41,752 9.4%
21 LEE 485 26,284 5.9% 71 MULLER 238 41,990 9.5%
22 FIRMA 472 26,756 6.0% 72 PRECISION 234 42,224 9.5%
23 JOHNSON 459 27,215 6.1% 73 DIGITAL 232 42,456 9.6%
24 MITSUBISHI 449 27,664 6.2% 74 ASAHI 223 42,679 9.6%
25 ETABLISSEMENTS 435 28,099 6.3% 75 SAMSUNG 222 42,901 9.7%
26 SMITH 433 28,532 6.4% 76 INTEGRATED 222 43,123 9.7%
27 R 418 28,950 6.5% 77 L 221 43,344 9.8%
28 C 416 29,366 6.6% 78 MICRO 216 43,560 9.8%
29 COMPAGNIE 386 29,752 6.7% 79 NORTH 214 43,774 9.9%
30 APPLIED 386 30,138 6.8% 80 KARL 210 43,984 9.9%
31 SIEMENS 380 30,518 6.9% 81 POWER 208 44,192 10.0%
32 KIM 370 30,888 7.0% 82 HER 206 44,398 10.0%
33 DR 364 31,252 7.0% 83 AIR 206 44,604 10.1%
34 M 364 31,616 7.1% 84 UNIVERSITE 205 44,809 10.1%
35 AB 351 31,967 7.2% 85 CREATIVE 205 45,014 10.1%
36 CENTRE 345 32,312 7.3% 86 SUN 205 45,219 10.2%
37 FUJI 337 32,649 7.4% 87 WANG 204 45,423 10.2%
38 H 335 32,984 7.4% 88 ROBERT 204 45,627 10.3%
39 TOKYO 325 33,309 7.5% 89 LES 204 45,831 10.3%
40 E 322 33,631 7.6% 90 CHANG 203 46,034 10.4%
41 US 313 33,944 7.6% 91 TOYO 203 46,237 10.4%
42 ABB 311 34,255 7.7% 92 T 199 46,436 10.5%
43 B 298 34,553 7.8% 93 WILLIAMS 195 46,631 10.5%
44 CHEN 296 34,849 7.9% 94 SCHNEIDER 195 46,826 10.6%
45 G 289 35,138 7.9% 95 KOREA 194 47,020 10.6%
46 SA 288 35,426 8.0% 96 OTTO 193 47,213 10.6%
47 S 287 35,713 8.0% 97 MILLER 191 47,404 10.7%
48 SUMITOMO 283 35,996 8.1% 98 GEBR 190 47,594 10.7%
49 W 281 36,277 8.2% 99 NV 189 47,783 10.8%
50 UNIVERSAL 280 36,557 8.2% 100 SCHMIDT 189 47,972 10.8%
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