Re[2]: Search Problem in WPI

SHELSO@ccmail.monsanto.com
Fri, 23 Feb 96 19:50 GMT

Andy,
I have done quite a lot of competitive reports with ranking by
assignee. The issue is complicated. You can get false counts
because of changes in assignees (with addition of new PACO's)
during prosecution from country to country. In addition, if you
only use PACO's you must look them up individually unless you have
an awfully good memory.
It's been a while since I last did one of these reports, but you
might want to talk with Mike Harvey or maybe Edlyn might have some
answers.

Suzanne

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Subject: RE: Search Problem in WPI
Author: piug-l@derwent.co.uk at INTERNET
Date: 2/23/96 1:21 PM

It has been awhile but I recalled there may be a field called "PANAME"
in the WPI file on Dialog which would extract the assignee by name.
However, you will lose the advantages of ranking by codes since there
are multiple names per code. You may wish to verify this with Dialog.

Regards,
Wendy
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From: Andy Berks <berksa@war.wyeth.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <piug-l@derwent.co.uk>
Subject: Search Problem in WPI
Date: Friday, February 23, 1996 2:35PM

I#m working on a market research type of problem, and I#m trying to
get a ranking of assignees from an answer set in WPI. The logical way
to do this is to do a ranking on the patent assignee codes. However,
when using smartselect on STN, only the codes (the paco field) are
selected and displayable in the ranked list. There does not seem to be
a method for automatically appending a real name to the
code.
Does
anyone
have
any
advice
on
this
problem?

Andy
Berks

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