Espacenet_Patents_Search

This repository provides access to patent information from Espacenet and enables text analysis of the extracted data.

Instructions to Run the Repository

1. Install the required packages listed in requirements.txt.

2. Define a .env file with the following format to set your CLIENT_KEY and CLIENT_SECRET from Espacenet:

   CLIENT_KEY=YOUR_CLIENT_KEY
   CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
   

Data Extraction

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1. Navigate to the extraction folder.

2. Run the search_patents.py script to extract patent information.

3. Monitor the amount of data extracted by your API key by executing usage.py.

4. Convert the extracted files and standardize the format to text files by running conversion.py.

Data Analysis

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1. Execute citation_analysis.py to perform a citation network analysis on the extracted patents.

2. Run descriptive_analysis.py for descriptive analysis and generate ranking graphs.

3. Execute lda_analysis.py to conduct Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) analysis.

4. Run semantic_analysis.py for a semantic analysis of the patents.