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    December 30, 2020

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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.

Notice: As of the next data update, the planned bulk download table revisions and restructuring will be in effect. Comprehensive documentation of changes will be posted along with the data release. - PVTeam
PRE-GRANT APPLICATIONS
GRANTED
Table Name Description # of Rows Origin Last Updated
application
zip: 1.3 GiB
tsv: 4.8 GiB

Data on patent applications

 5,981,028 raw
assignee
zip: 18.8 MiB
tsv: 39.4 MiB

Disambiguated assignee data for granted patents and pre-granted applications

 540,183 disamb
cpc
zip: 188.3 MiB
tsv: 1.8 GiB

CPC classification data for all applications at the time of submission

 14,771,374 raw
cpc_current
zip: 1.9 GiB
tsv: 6.2 GiB

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

 55,819,564 raw (from separate classification files)
foreign_priority
zip: 44.6 MiB
tsv: 266.6 MiB

Foreign priority data

 2,949,326 raw
government_interest
zip: 4.9 MiB
tsv: 33.9 MiB

Raw government interest statements on all pre-grant published patent applications (where available)

 135,476 raw
granted_patent_crosswalk
zip: 56.6 MiB
tsv: 255.2 MiB

Mapping between published applications and granted patents (This table includes mappings for data through June 29, 2021.)

 3,701,643 processed
inventor
zip: 50.6 MiB
tsv: 248.3 MiB

Disambiguated inventor data for granted patents and pre-granted applications

 5,363,671 disamb
ipcr
zip: 167.4 MiB
tsv: 1.6 GiB

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

 14,506,713 raw
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
pct_data
zip: 20.9 MiB
tsv: 146.6 MiB

PCT data

 1,225,551 raw
publication
zip: 41.1 MiB
tsv: 448.6 MiB

Published application data

 5,981,028 raw
publication_assignee
zip: 58.7 MiB
tsv: 268.0 MiB

Crosswalk table between published applications and assignee table

 2,997,996 disamb
publication_inventor
zip: 223.9 MiB
tsv: 1.2 GiB

Crosswalk table between published applications and inventor table

 16,957,200 disamb
rawassignee
zip: 129.9 MiB
tsv: 540.0 MiB

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

 2,997,996 raw
rawinventor
zip: 570.6 MiB
tsv: 2.7 GiB

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

 16,686,910 raw
rawlocation
zip: 344.9 MiB
tsv: 2.1 GiB

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

 19,853,811 raw
rel_app_text
zip: 172.9 MiB
tsv: 1.0 GiB

Related applications text

 2,248,295 raw
uspc
zip: 65.2 MiB
tsv: 453.5 MiB

USPC classification data for all applications

 6,818,628 raw
usreldoc
zip: 105.4 MiB
tsv: 808.8 MiB

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

 7,930,451 raw
us_parties
zip: 298.4 MiB
tsv: 1.7 GiB

US parties listed on the application

 10,871,267 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. At this time, the published applications database does not contain the earliest years (2001-2005) of data.

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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.

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