Reproducible Patent Data

A continuation of Redesigning Patent Database that aims to write faster, more centralized code to deal with the USPTO data. By having an end-to-end pipeline we can easily reproduce or update data without worrying about unintentional side effects or missing data.

McNair Project

Reproducible Patent Data
Project Information
Project Title	Reproducible Patent Data
Owner	Oliver Chang
Start Date	May 17
Deadline
Primary Billing
Notes
Has project status	Active
Subsumes:	Redesigning Patent Database, Patent Assignment Data Restructure
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Directory Layout

All of the information for this project is located at E:\McNair\Projects\SimplerPatentData

There are three interesting directories:

• zipfiles/ is USPTO bulkdata, unmodified and validated to have the correct file size
• extracts/ is a directory of a strict subset of the information stored in zipfiles/. It is the result of running a bulk 7-zip job on that directory to get everything unzipped in a flat data structure. Note that these files have the USPTO modified-by time since that metadata is stored in the zipfiles.
• src/ is the main code repository for the java project

In addition, there are three interesting files in the base directory:

• extracts.7z is an archived version of the extracts/ directory for backup and transfer reasons.

Name: extracts.7z
Size: 55847284301 bytes (53260 MB)
SHA256: C653E5B736530711DB2212191853EAABBF36CF48820915F8B57DB54E1990BDC0

• hashes.tsv is a tab-separated value file with SHA-256 hashes of the files as downloaded from the USPTO.
• index.tsv is a tab-separated value file with the URLs, modified-by datetime, and supposed filesize in bytes.

Input Files

All of the text-only Red Book files for granted patents from 1976 to 2016, inclusive. To find a specific year's XML file, find it in

E:\McNair\Projects\SimplerPatentData\extracts

Schema Reconciliation

Data Formats

January 1976 to December 2001	APS
January 2001 to December 2001	SGML
January 2002 to December 2004	XML Version 2.5
January 2005 to December 2005	XML Version 4.0 ICE
January 2006 to December 2006	XML Version 4.1 ICE
January 2007 to December 2012	XML Version 4.2 ICE
January 2014 to June 2014 (to-check)	XML Version 4.3 ICE
July 2014 to December 2014 (to-check)	XML Version 4.4 ICE
January 2015 to December 2016	XML Version 4.5 ICE

Processing

TODO

Attributes

Equivalent XPath Queries (unless otherwise noted, same from left-to-right)

Value	XML 2.5	XML 4.0	XML 4.1	XML 4.2	XML 4.3	XML 4.4	XML 4.5
DTD Version					//us-patent-grant/@dtd-version
Publication Reference ID

TODO (in order)

1. Flesh out equivalencies for all XML schemas
2. Ditto APS
3. Ditto Maintenance Fee Data
4. Create a new DB schema using a less centralized conception of a patent
5. Check correctness versus existing data
6. Store abstracts, processing metadata
7. Investigate USPTO products for addressees
8. Handle addressee data

Related Projects

• Existing Database Schema