Guide to STN Patent Databases – Basic Version - Paton - TU Ilmenau

Procedure:
Copy to Excel (Select/Copy/Paste)
Types of search
Make a spreadsheet (Data/Text in columns/Separator: Semicolon, Delete % column, Delete empty column,
Enter column titles)
Make a PIVOT table (Data/PIVOT table)
Make a 3D diagram (Diagram wizard, show diagram on a new sheet, copy diagram and paste it e.g. to
Word)
Patent publications Priority year
Company 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Result
KOENIG & BAUER AG 29 43 53 55 69 121 111 137 81 69 768
MAN ROLAND DRUCKMASCHINEN AG 61 45 26 45 47 43 27 31 15 39 3 382
HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG 41 31 38 43 36 38 12 3 8 11 261
KOMORI CORPORATION 7 11 14 10 27 39 7 14 18 8 1 156
BALDWIN GERMANY GMBH 13 11 9 10 13 12 4 9 8 7 96
GOSS INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS, INC. 8 6 10 6 9 19 10 4 15 9 96
WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER KG 7 2 4 3 7 12 10 4 49
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD. 2 4 2 9 5 10 8 3 3 46
MASCHINENFABRIK WIFAG 5 6 6 3 1 6 5 4 5 41
FISCHER & KRECKE GMBH & CO. 2 2 1 11 5 4 3 6 6 40
Result 175 161 161 185 216 284 197 229 168 155 4 1935
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KOENIG & BAUER AG
HEIDELBERGER
DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
BALDWIN GERMANY GMBH
WINDMOELLER &
HOELSCHER KG
MASCHINENFABRIK WIFAG
1995
1998
2001
2004
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