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Patent Data Matching Project (Outdated — with AI, no search engine is needed anymore)
Matching USPTO Patent Assignees to Compustat Public Firms and SDC Private Firms
A systematic effort to match assignee names on USPTO patent records to public and private firms in Compustat and SDC Platinum databases.
- • Public firms: 1976–2017
- • Private firms: 1985–2017
- • Methodology: Bing web search engine with improved fuzzy name matching
Supported by a research grant from the Finance Division and Deming Center at Columbia Business School.