IP Australia has published the latest edition of its Intellectual Property Government Open Data (IPGOD2020).
In a statement, IP Australia said the publicly-available data-set included more than 100 years of information on IP rights applications administered by IP Australia.
“IPGOD2020 is the most significant update so far,” IP Australia said.
“The data structure itself has been completely revised to present a consistent data structure for all four rights, simplifying the process of accessing combined data,” it said.
“Data extraction methods have also been completely redeveloped to maximise the accuracy, reliability and data coverage of the IPGOD product.”
It said IPGOD2020 contained most of the data covered in prior years, with increased historical coverage.
“Information can now be obtained about both the current state of IP rights and the history of activities associated with IP rights, including insights into IP Australia’s business processes and the holdings and behaviour of applicants over time,” the Agency said.
“To assist with this, organisation name variations have been batched and consolidated, so where applicants have provided variants of their name, such as P/L, Pty Limited and Pty Ltd, these variations have been grouped together as a single applicant.”
IP Australia said further data enrichments were planned through a second release of IPGOD2020 later this year.
“Enhancements will focus on improving the research potential of the data-set by providing tables (views) to answer common research questions,” it said.
“We are committed to making the IPGOD product as usable, comprehensive and accurate as possible.”
IPGOD2020 can be accessed at this PS News link.
