Visualising CAPPA – Career Paths of Patent Attorneys

The CAPPA dataset contains anonymised information on the career paths of patent attorneys that are registered with the European Patent Office (EPO) tracking their employment from 2008 to 2018. It consists of four different sub-datasets (Attorney Data Frame, Employer Data Frame, Change Data Frame, and Career Path Data Frame) that are composed for specific information needs. The dataset has been computed, cleaned and made consistent based on publicly available patent records that are available through the EPO.

This tutorial introduces some general features of the CAPPA dataset and illustrates how researches could interact with it. It provides example visualisations together with code snippets in R to facilitate a first approach. The dataset itself can be found here.