topCited =
{
[1] = G 0009/91 (709)
[2] = G 0010/91 (665)
[3] = G 0002/88 (368)
[4] = G 0001/03 (308)
[5] = T 0641/00 (258)
[6] = G 0001/93 (258)
[7] = G 0009/92 (254)
[8] = G 0002/98 (240)
[9] = G 0010/93 (234)
[10] = T 1002/92 (218)
[11] = T 0002/83 (216)
[12] = T 0153/85 (212)
[13] = T 0409/91 (205)
[14] = T 0939/92 (198)
[15] = T 0301/87 (191)
[16] = G 0003/14 (186)
[17] = T 0219/83 (174)
[18] = G 0007/93 (173)
[19] = G 0004/92 (166)
[20] = T 0073/84 (162)
[21] = G 0005/83 (162)
[22] = G 0001/99 (161)
[23] = G 0004/93 (146)
[24] = T 0020/81 (146)
[25] = G 0002/10 (145)
[26] = T 0435/91 (140)
[27] = J 0010/07 (131)
[28] = G 0003/89 (130)
[29] = G 0007/95 (128)
[30] = T 0201/83 (125)
[31] = T 0197/86 (124)
[32] = T 0012/81 (121)
[33] = T 0331/87 (117)
[34] = G 0001/89 (115)
[35] = T 0666/89 (114)
[36] = G 0004/95 (113)
[37] = T 0068/85 (112)
[38] = T 0220/83 (110)
[39] = T 0258/03 (109)
[40] = G 0001/95 (109)
[41] = T 0190/99 (109)
[42] = T 0186/84 (104)
[43] = T 0181/82 (103)
[44] = T 0169/83 (102)
[45] = T 0019/90 (101)
[46] = G 0001/92 (100)
[47] = T 0056/87 (95)
[48] = G 0006/88 (95)
[49] = T 0270/90 (94)
[50] = T 0198/84 (93)
[51] = T 0472/92 (92)
[52] = G 0008/91 (88)
[53] = T 0248/85 (88)
[54] = G 0011/91 (87)
[55] = G 0004/88 (87)
[56] = T 0176/84 (85)
[57] = J 0005/80 (84)
[58] = T 0229/85 (84)
[59] = G 0001/05 (83)
[60] = J 0002/86 (83)
[61] = T 0279/89 (79)
[62] = G 0002/03 (79)
[63] = G 0001/86 (78)
[64] = T 0156/84 (78)
[65] = T 1067/97 (78)
[66] = T 0024/81 (73)
[67] = T 0150/82 (73)
[68] = T 0222/85 (73)
[69] = T 0237/86 (72)
[70] = T 0204/83 (71)
[71] = T 0139/87 (67)
[72] = T 0182/89 (66)
[73] = T 0606/89 (66)
[74] = T 0292/85 (65)
[75] = T 0095/83 (65)
[76] = J 0003/86 (64)
[77] = G 0002/97 (63)
[78] = T 0328/87 (63)
[79] = G 0001/04 (63)
[80] = T 0002/81 (63)
[81] = J 0007/82 (62)
[82] = T 0013/84 (62)
[83] = T 0326/87 (61)
[84] = G 0002/04 (61)
[85] = T 0611/90 (60)
[86] = T 0154/04 (59)
[87] = T 0206/83 (59)
[88] = T 0213/85 (59)
[89] = T 0014/83 (59)
[90] = T 0063/86 (58)
[91] = G 0001/06 (57)
[92] = T 0609/02 (56)
[93] = G 0001/84 (56)
[94] = T 0170/87 (56)
[95] = T 0278/00 (55)
[96] = J 0022/86 (55)
[97] = T 0608/07 (55)
[98] = T 0119/82 (55)
[99] = T 0296/87 (54)
[100] = T 0226/85 (54)
}
How did you create this list? Are BoA decisions indexed on PATSTAT or is there a separate database? I would be interested to see how this list changed/changes over time.
ReplyDeleteI do not know whether such a list already existed before, but I actually created the list myself. I programmed a small "web crawler";, which parses through the Boards of Appeals decisions. (I was initially more interested in learning how a web crawler works than in a list of 100 most-cited decisions ;) The necessary information for creating the list (case number, cited/citing decisions, date of decision) is all in the HTML code of the header sections of the web pages (e.g. https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t930296dp1.html). I collected the data in a large sparse matrix (apprx 13000 x 13000 elements). From that matrix I could compute the list of most-cited decisions, as well as create the little graphs that I include in each blog post.
DeleteImpressive! I tried a similar website scraping exercise a few years ago (for a different purpose) but it seems the EPO didn't like it and relatively quickly changed their systems to restrict automated data retrieval!
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ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see how the list has changed if it was recreated in 2022
ReplyDeleteI remember I recreated the list in 2000, but the result was kind of disappointing. Nothing much happenend in the top 10. A handfull of new decisions made it into the list, but nothing spectacular. I guess it is because most of the decisions in the list have been frequently cited over decades. It is very hard to get to comparable numbers within only a few years. Might be more enlightening to look at the top 100 for each year individually.
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