Patent Grant Data Products

Patent Grant Multi-Page Images (1790-current Calendar Year)

This data contains the multi-page image of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from July 31, 1790 to the current Calendar Year in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) with CCITT Group 4 Compression. This product is extracted from the USPTO's USAPat optical disc product, which is discontinued as of December 31, 2011. (The data will no longer be available in optical disc format, only online format at the web site below as of December 31, 2011.)

Also included are older grants that have new  Certificates of Correction and rescanned images of older patent grants. 

Average file size is 4 GB (compressed).

Choose this product if you need multi-page image format with front page information, all drawings, specification, and claims.

Download Product: www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants.html

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Patent Grant Single-Page Images (current Calendar Year)

This data contains the single-page image of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) in the current Calendar Year (January-December) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) with CCITT Group 4 Compression (single-page TIFFs). Each weekly file contains approximately 4,000 patent grants. 

Also included are separate Certificates of Correction, which includes previous grant documents. 

Average file size is 4 GB (compressed) per week.

Choose this product if you need single-page image format with front page information, all drawings, specification, and claims for patent grants.

Download Product: www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants-yellowbook.html or https://eipweb.uspto.gov/TOC/

(*An annual subscription for the current Calendar Year is available on blu-ray discs for $10,400. Contact ipd@uspto.gov for ordering information.)

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Patent Grant Full Text (1976-current Calendar year)

This data contains the full text of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 1976 to present. 

Average file size is 54 MB (compressed).

Choose this product if you need bibliographic front page information, specification, and claims.

Refer to the following for additional Patent Grant XML information to include the Document Type Definitions (DTDs): www.uspto.gov/products/xml-resources.jsp

Download Product: www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants-text.html or https://eipweb.uspto.gov/TOC/ (does not contain current Calendar Year)

File Format (*File format for 1976-2000 is Tagged ASCII APS)

2001	2002-2004	2005	2006	2007-present
SGML Version 2.4	SGML Version 2.5	XML Version 4.0	XML Version 4.1	XML Version 4.2

 

(*The data is also available for 1976-2001 on DVD-ROM  for $2,900. Additionally, an annual subscription for the current Calendar Year is available for $2,500. Contact ipd@uspto.gov for ordering information.)

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Patent Grant Full Text with Embedded Images (2001-present)

This data contains the full text, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) images of drawings, and complex work units (tables, mathematical expressions, genetic sequence data, and chemical structures) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 2001 to present.

Tables and sequence data are included using CALS markup. Mathematical expressions are included using MATHML markup and external Mathematica Notebook (NB) files. Chemical structures are represented by external CambridgeSoft Corp. ChemDraw (CDX) files and MDL Information Systems (MOL) files. Drawings, mathematical expressions, and chemical structures are also included as external TIFF with CCITT Group 4 Compression image files. Approximately 4,000 patent grants per week. 

Average file size is 836 MB (compressed) per week.

Refer to the following for additional Patent Grant XML information to include the Document Type Definitions (DTDs): www.uspto.gov/products/xml-resources.jsp

Choose this product if you need full text, specification, claims, and TIFF images of drawings for patent grants.

Download Product:  www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-redbook.html

File Format

2001	2002-2004	2005	2006	2007-present
SGML Version 2.4	SGML Version 2.5	XML Version 4.0	XML Version 4.1	XML Version 4.2

 (*An annual subscription for the current Calendar Year is available on DVD-ROMS for $5,200. Contact ipd@uspto.gov for ordering information.)

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Patent Grant Bibliographic (1976-present)

This data contains the bibliographic text (i.e., the front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 1976 to present. The data set excludes images and/or drawings. The data set includes patent number, series code, application number, type of patent, filing date, title, issue date, inventor information, assignee name, foreign priority information, classification information, U.S. and foreign references, legal representative, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) information, and abstract. These files are a subset of the Patent Full-Text/APS Retrospective. 

Average file size is 2.7 MB (compressed).

Choose this product if you need bibliographic (front page) information only for patent grants.

Download Product: www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants-biblio.html or https://eipweb.uspto.gov/TOC/

(*The data is also available for 1976-2001 on CD-ROM for $300. Contact ipd@uspto.gov for ordering information.)

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Patent Grant OCR Text (1920-1979)

This data contains the full text of each patent grant produced by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process using the U.S. Patent Grant Image data from January 1920 to December 1979. The file format is modified Patent Full-Text/APS (a.k.a., modified Green Book), ASCII text. 

Average file size is 60 GB (compressed).

Choose this product if you need bibliographic front page information, specification, and claims.

Download Product: www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants-ocr.html 

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