Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML

Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML (https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS/start.swe?SWECmd=Start&SWEHo=eipweb.uspto.gov ) contains the bibliographic text (i.e., front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) for calendar years 2002 to the present. Images and drawings are excluded.

Patent Grant Data (text and images) is available for a fee.

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp

Bibliographic Data is available in XML format in accordance with various versions of the U. S. Patent Grant Document Type Definition (DTD). Starting with version 4.0, International Common Element (ICE) compatibility was established.

Bibliographic data has been consolidated on a weekly basis and compressed into zip files (one zip file per week) which must be downloaded separately. The zip files have been grouped by year into separate product directories as shown in the following table.

Version	Dates	Bibliographic Data Product Directory
2.5	01/2002 – 12/2002	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2002/PatentGrantBibXML/
2.5	01/2003 – 12/2003	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2003/PatentGrantBibXML
2.5	01/2004 – 12/2004	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2004/PatentGrantBibXML
4.0	01/2005 – 12/2005	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2005/PatentGrantBibICEXML/
4.1	01/2006 – 12/2006	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2006/PatentGrantBibICEXML/
4.2	01/2007 – 12/2007	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2007/PatentGrantBibICEXML
4.2	01/2008 – 12/2008	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2008/PatentGrantBibICEXML/
4.2	01/2009 – 12/2009	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2009/PatentGrantBibICEXML/
4.2	01/2010 – 12/2010	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/2010/PatentGrantBibICEXML/

The name used to identify each zip file takes the following form:

    ipgbyyyymmdd_wknn.zip

Where the date of publication is represented by "yyyymmdd" and "nn" is a two-digit, fixed-length number (with leading zero) representing the sequentially-numbered week of the year.

Each zip file contains three (3) files for the weekly publication:

• ipgbyyyymmdd.xml (bibliographic information in XML)
• ipgbyyyymmddlst.txt (list of patent grant numbers in ascending order)
• ipgbyyyymmddrpt.txt (statistical/summary report)

Note: Prior to version 4.0, the prefix of the name of the zip file and the files contained within it were of the form: pgbyyyymmdd .

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