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  • DATA UP TO
    December 30, 2021

    DATA RELEASED ON
    March 28, 2022

    RELEASE NOTES
    Release Notes

    DESCRIPTION
    PatentsView database tables can be bulk downloaded as individual files in tab delimited format for programmers and researchers who prefer to work with the data in their native environments.

    The pre-grant data dictionary and granted patent data dictionary contain detailed information on the tables, data elements and their definitions.

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About Bulk Download Database Tables

PatentsView offers publicly accessible patent research data sets with detailed documentation. PatentsView database tables can be bulk downloaded as individual files in a tab- delimited format for programmers and researchers who prefer to work with the data in their native environments.

GRANTED PATENTS
PRE-GRANT
Table Name Description # of Rows Origin Last Updated
application
zip: 78.4 MiB
tsv: 427.5 MiB

Information on the applications for granted patent

 7,988,799 raw
assignee
zip: 18.8 MiB
tsv: 39.4 MiB

Disambiguated assignee data for granted patents and pre-granted applications

 540,183 disamb
botanic
zip: 645.3 KiB
tsv: 1.3 MiB

Botanic information for plant patents

 18,333 raw
cpc_current
zip: 1.5 GiB
tsv: 4.1 GiB

Current CPC classification data for all patents (applied retrospectively to all patents)

 46,001,881 raw (from separate classification files)
cpc_group
zip: 21.5 KiB
tsv: 67.9 KiB

Lookup table of current CPC groups

 674 raw (from separate classification files)
cpc_subgroup
zip: 5.5 MiB
tsv: 61.6 MiB

Lookup table of current CPC subgroups

 263,323 raw (from separate classification files)
cpc_subsection
zip: 3.2 KiB
tsv: 7.9 KiB

Lookup table of current CPC subsections

 136 raw (from separate classification files)
figures
zip: 171.5 MiB
tsv: 304.3 MiB

Number of figures and sheets

 7,449,561 raw
foreigncitation
zip: 1.1 GiB
tsv: 2.8 GiB

Citations made to foreign patents by US patents

 33,733,848 raw
foreign_priority
zip: 127.0 MiB
tsv: 298.3 MiB

Foreign priority data

 3,706,125 raw
government_interest
zip: 5.0 MiB
tsv: 35.9 MiB

Raw government interest statements on all patents (where available)

 160,809 raw
government_organization
zip: 5.9 KiB
tsv: 34.1 KiB

Organization names and related agency hierarchy parsed from the government interest statements on all patents (where available)

 297 processed
inventor
zip: 52.9 MiB
tsv: 248.3 MiB

Disambiguated inventor data for granted patents and pre-granted applications

 5,363,671 disamb
ipcr
zip: 644.6 MiB
tsv: 1.9 GiB

International Patent Classification data for all patents (as of publication date)

 19,543,272 raw
lawyer
zip: 5.4 MiB
tsv: 11.2 MiB

Disambiguated lawyer data

 171,529 disamb
location
zip: 5.2 MiB
tsv: 19.3 MiB

Disambiguated location data, including latitude and longitude for granted patents and pre-granted applications

 242,926 disamb
mainclass
zip: 2.4 KiB
tsv: 7.1 KiB

Lookup table of original USPC main classes (as of patent publication date)

 1,239 raw
mainclass_current
zip: 7.5 KiB
tsv: 21.5 KiB

Lookup table of current USPC main technology classes (applied retrospectively to all patents)

 510 raw (from separate classification files)
nber
zip: 115.3 MiB
tsv: 228.9 MiB

NBER classification data for all patents up to May 2015

 5,105,937 raw (from separate classification files)
nber_category
zip: 222.0 B
tsv: 113.0 B

Lookup table for NBER categories

 7 raw (from separate classification files)
nber_subcategory
zip: 625.0 B
tsv: 928.0 B

Lookup table for NBER subcategories

 38 raw (from separate classification files)
non_inventor_applicant
zip: 256.7 MiB
tsv: 547.9 MiB

Non-inventor applicant information

 4,845,942 raw
otherreference
zip: 4.0 GiB
tsv: 8.2 GiB

Non-patent citations mentioned in patents (e.g. articles, papers, etc.)

 48,674,085 raw
patent
zip: 1.5 GiB
tsv: 5.9 GiB

Data on granted patents

 7,991,058 raw
patent_assignee
zip: 146.4 MiB
tsv: 616.2 MiB

Metadata table for many-to-many relationships

 7,334,687 disamb (linking table)
patent_contractawardnumber
zip: 1.5 MiB
tsv: 4.7 MiB

Contract or award numbers parsed from the government interest statements on all patents (where available)

 194,461 processed
patent_govintorg
zip: 656.4 KiB
tsv: 2.5 MiB

Metadata table with patent-to-organization relationships linked to the government_organization table

 196,835 processed
patent_inventor
zip: 268.2 MiB
tsv: 1.3 GiB

Metadata table for many-to-many relationships

 19,843,047 disamb (linking table)
patent_lawyer
zip: 130.3 MiB
tsv: 464.0 MiB

Metadata table for many-to-many relationships

 10,775,785 disamb (linking table)
pct_data
zip: 59.5 MiB
tsv: 168.6 MiB

PCT data

 1,698,529 raw
persistent_assignee_disambig
zip: 1.5 GiB
tsv: 2.6 GiB

Persistent Assignee Disambiguation - Updated to include missing values in the disamb_assignee_id_20201229 column field.

 7,334,687 raw
persistent_inventor_disambig
zip: 821.4 MiB
tsv: 3.6 GiB

Persistent Inventor Disambiguation

 19,843,047 raw
rawassignee
zip: 528.4 MiB
tsv: 1021.4 MiB

Raw assignee information as it appears in the source text and XML files

 7,334,687 raw
rawexaminer
zip: 354.4 MiB
tsv: 760.9 MiB

Raw examiner information

 10,762,325 raw
rawinventor
zip: 1.1 GiB
tsv: 2.3 GiB

Raw inventor information as it appears in the source text and XML files

 19,632,557 raw
rawlawyer
zip: 475.7 MiB
tsv: 987.1 MiB

Raw lawyer information as it appears in the source text and XML files

 9,150,489 raw
rawlocation
zip: 1.1 GiB
tsv: 3.1 GiB

Raw location data for inventors and assignees, as it appears in xml and text source files

 31,836,394 raw
rel_app_text
zip: 224.2 MiB
tsv: 970.5 MiB

Related applications text

 2,140,157 raw
subclass
zip: 599.4 KiB
tsv: 2.6 MiB

Lookup table of original USPC subclasses (as of patent publication date)

 272,556 raw
subclass_current
zip: 2.1 MiB
tsv: 7.3 MiB

Lookup table of current USPC subclasses (applied retrospectively to all patents)

 168,048 raw (from separate classification files)
usapplicationcitation
zip: 2.1 GiB
tsv: 6.2 GiB

Citations made to US patent applications by US patents

 52,070,077 raw
uspatentcitation
zip: 4.6 GiB
tsv: 11.8 GiB

Citations made to US granted patents by US patents

 122,888,451 raw
uspc
zip: 490.7 MiB
tsv: 963.9 MiB

USPC classification data for all patents

 18,066,240 raw
uspc_current
zip: 619.0 MiB
tsv: 1.2 GiB

Current USPC classification data for all patents up to May 2015

 22,852,958 raw (from separate classification files)
usreldoc
zip: 416.8 MiB
tsv: 1.2 GiB

U.S. related documents (post-2005 patents only)

 12,474,717 raw
us_term_of_grant
zip: 96.1 MiB
tsv: 226.2 MiB

U.S. term of grant data

 3,978,042 raw
wipo
zip: 29.9 MiB
tsv: 170.5 MiB

WIPO technology fields for all patents

 10,658,264 raw (from separate classification files)
wipo_field
zip: 1.5 KiB
tsv: 3.7 KiB

Lookup table of WIPO technology fields

 70 raw (from separate classification files)

The PatentsView database is created from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) public bulk data releases available at https://developer.uspto.gov/data. These data releases provide information on published patent applications (since 2001) and granted patents (since 1976). The PatentsView database for patents is available for download upon request, MySQL dump. The PatentsView database for  published applications contains pre-grant publications (PGPub) of patent applications (see MPEP § 1120) and is available in the top row of data in the table above. At this time, the published applications database does not contain the earliest years (2001-2005) of data.

For more information, visit the Methods and Sources section of the website.

This work was created through a government contract funded by the Office of Chief Economist in the US Patent and Trademark Office. Users are free to use, share, or adapt the material for any purpose, subject to the standards of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Attribution should be given to PatentsView (www.patentsview.org) for use, distribution, or derivative works.