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    December 5, 2023

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PRE-GRANT APPLICATIONS
GRANTED
Table Name Description # of Rows Origin Last Updated
pg_applicant_not_disambiguated
zip: 210.8 MiB
tsv: 1.2 GiB

Raw information on non-inventor applicants.

 11,868,128 raw
pg_assignee_disambiguated
zip: 106.0 MiB
tsv: 414.4 MiB

Disambiguated assignee information for pre-grant published applications.

 3,502,093 disambig
pg_assignee_not_disambiguated
zip: 111.5 MiB
tsv: 414.5 MiB

Raw assignee information for pre-grant published applications.

 3,502,093 raw
pg_cpc_at_issue
zip: 156.0 MiB
tsv: 1.4 GiB

CPC classification data for all applications at the time of submission.

 18,382,985 raw
pg_cpc_current
zip: 833.6 MiB
tsv: 4.1 GiB

Current CPC classification data for all applications (applied retrospectively to all applications).

 62,392,163 raw
pg_cpc_title
zip: 6.1 MiB
tsv: 104.5 MiB

This table is identical to g_cpc_title, provided here for ease of access. CPC group classification at issue of the granted patent.

 266,455 raw
pg_foreign_priority
zip: 40.8 MiB
tsv: 204.1 MiB

Foreign priority data for pre-grant published applications.

 3,767,822 raw
pg_gov_interest
zip: 5.4 MiB
tsv: 37.3 MiB

Mapping of patent numbers to raw government interest text

 149,786 raw
pg_gov_interest_contracts
zip: 1.7 MiB
tsv: 5.6 MiB

Mapping of Federal contract award numbers to patent numbers

 222,115 processed
pg_gov_interest_org
zip: 1.1 MiB
tsv: 19.6 MiB

Federal agencies with government interests in patents

 194,975 raw
pg_granted_pgpubs_crosswalk
zip: 97.1 MiB
tsv: 465.0 MiB

Table mapping patent application's to their corresponding granted patent numbers

 11,342,829 processed
pg_inventor_disambiguated
zip: 489.9 MiB
tsv: 1.9 GiB

Disambiguated inventor information from pre-grant published applications.

 20,915,944 disambig
pg_inventor_not_disambiguated
zip: 501.4 MiB
tsv: 2.0 GiB

Raw inventor information from pre-grant published applications.

 20,915,944 raw
pg_ipc_at_issue
zip: 139.8 MiB
tsv: 1.3 GiB

International Patent Classification data for all applications (as of application date).

 18,203,064 raw
pg_location_disambiguated
zip: 2.8 MiB
tsv: 9.9 MiB

Disambiguated location data for inventors, assignees, and applicants

 109,262 disambig
pg_location_not_disambiguated
zip: 383.3 MiB
tsv: 2.7 GiB

Raw location data, including latitude and longitude for pre-granted published applications.

 29,288,416 raw
pg_pct_data
zip: 18.5 MiB
tsv: 123.4 MiB

PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) or regional filing data for pre-grant published applications.

 1,476,513 raw
pg_persistent_assignee
zip: 437.0 MiB
tsv: 1.1 GiB

This table tracks how assignee unique IDs change from update to update

 3,532,533 processed
pg_persistent_inventor
zip: 369.6 MiB
tsv: 2.8 GiB

This table tracks how inventor unique IDs change from update to update

 21,041,039 processed
pg_published_application
zip: 1.6 GiB
tsv: 5.9 GiB

Published application data. 

 7,468,099 raw
pg_rel_app_text
zip: 197.7 MiB
tsv: 1.2 GiB

Descriptions of related patent applications for pre-grant published applications.

 2,791,724 raw
pg_us_rel_doc
zip: 85.0 MiB
tsv: 609.0 MiB

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

 9,127,521 raw
pg_uspc_at_issue
zip: 117.3 MiB
tsv: 721.7 MiB

USPC classification data for pre-grant published applications at application.

 6,818,943 raw
pg_wipo_technology
zip: 43.5 MiB
tsv: 651.7 MiB

WIPO technology classification of pre-grant published applications.

 11,595,279 raw

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.

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