Patent Public Bulk Files

Tool kit to download, read, and utilize open patent data provided to the public.

Notice

This source code is a work in progress and has not been fully vetted for a production environment.

Two main modules

• Bulk Downloader automates downloading of public bulk patent data
• Patent Document provides the ability to iterate and read patents directly from the large bulk download files, supports reading patent documents from 1976 to current, which includes Greenbook, SGML, PAP, and all Redbook XML formats, into a normalized Patent Object Model.

Features

• Download bulk patent grants and applications, as well as additional resources
• View individual patent documents directly from the large bulk files
• Read patent documents directly from the large bulk files, supports reading patent documents from 1976 to current (formats: Greenbook, SGML, PAP, Redbook XML) into a normalized Patent Object Model
• Extract patent documents from bulk files
• Normalize and transform patent data before loading into a data resource
• Company Synonyms generated by removing prefixes and suffixes i.e. (Corp.|Corporation|Co.|Company|...)
• NPL Citations extraction of US Patent Ids
• Patent Claim Tree to facilitate analysis
• Update Classifications from Master CPC File (current CPC classification for patents starting from patent number 1)
• Include classification definitions from CPC Scheme
• Build a corpus using Corpus Builder, which automates building a corpus by downloading and extracting patents/applications matching specified classifications, one bulk file at a time for a date range.

Public Patent Data

• Rate of Release: Evey Tuesday, a new bulk file is released, which contains around two to five thousand patents granted on the same day as the release.
• Releases are available on both the USPTO Bulkdata and Reedtech websites.
• Receiving changes of patents after publication, note bulk files are not updated once published, updates can be received by indexing additional supplemental files which are also publicly available. The following are fields which periodically update after publication:

  Field	Update available
  Assignee	daily within Patent Assignment XML Dump files
  Classifications	monthly within Master Classification File Dumps

Other Information

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