Abstract API for handling patent data.
This package defines an abstract interface for patent data analysis in Julia. To that end, the package contains an abstract type hierarchy modelling the kinds of information usually contained in patent applications, as well as a set of interface functions for interacting with that information.
Note that this package only defines an interface, but does not implement it. Implementations should be hosted in separate packages and be specific to the data source or format to be used. They should aim to implement as fully as possible the interface defined herein.
Additional, task-specific extension packages may refer to and extend the PatentsBase interface. Implementation packages may choose which task-specific interfaces they implement in addition to the base interface.
- PatentsLens: Reference implementation for using lens.org data.
- PatentsLandscapes: Functions for taxonomy and statistical analysis of patent datasets.