Patent Applications (total)

Patents are documents issued by a government office that describe an invention and create a legal situation in which the patented invention can normally be exploited only by or with the authorization of the patent holder. The protection is generally limited to 20 years.

HOW TO JOIN WITH METADATA

• Concepts (labels/units)
– Use the concept id patent_applications_total to look up labels and units in @gapminder.metadata.concepts.
SELECT * FROM @gapminder.metadata.concepts WHERE concept = 'patent_applications_total'.

• Countries and names
– Join your datapoints on geo to @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_country to get readable country/area names
(e.g., name) and membership attributes such as world_4region, income_groups.

• Regions and other group labels
– After you have a region code from the country table (e.g., world_4region),
you can join to:
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_world_4region on world_4region → region names/colors/shapes
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_world_6region on world_6region → region names
· @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_income_groups on income_groups → income group names

Example:
SELECT d.time,
c.name AS country,
d.patent_applications_total AS value
FROM @gapminder.patent_applications_total.patent_applications_total_by_geo_time d
LEFT JOIN @gapminder.metadata.entities_geo_country c ON d.geo = c.country;