Patent Data

The Patent Data page is for instructions on how to get the USPTO patent data, how to use the database, and for the documentation of our database.

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The files (in xml format) for granted patent data can be obtained at granted patent

The files for patent application data can be obtained at patent applications

The files for maintenance fees data can be obtained at maintenance

Scripts are available to perform a bulk download of all the above files:

To use the scripts, save the scripts as shell scripts, then either

~ leodu$ sh Applications_download_2001-2004.sh

or first change the script to an executable and execute it

~ leodu$ chmod a+x Applications_download_2001-2004.sh
~ leodu$ ./Applications_download_2001-2004.sh