Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949–1990

We document the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949–1990), which is freely available at GESIS . The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (later: German P...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 2024-02, Vol.244 (1), p.149-158
Hauptverfasser:	Hipp, Ann, Fritsch, Michael, Greve, Maria, Günther, Jutta, Lange, Marcel, Liutik, Christian, Pfeifer, Beate, Shkolnykova, Mariia, Wyrwich, Michael
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	B24 German Democratic Republic (GDR) invention O31 O33 P29 P39 patent data
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Zusammenfassung:	We document the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949–1990), which is freely available at GESIS . The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (later: German Patent and Trade Mark Office/DPMA). The core database covers the years 1950–1990 and contains 24 variables with manually cleaned and processed information on a total of 261,822 unique patents of the GDR.
ISSN:	0021-4027 2366-049X
DOI:	10.1515/jbnst-2022-0058