Products Available from the USPTO on Digital Linear Tape

Digital Linear Tape products are available from the Office of Electronic Information Products Data Dissemination Program. Please call the Information Products Division at 571-272-5600 to order these products . Several online items may be obtained at no charge from  ftp.uspto.gov/pub/patdata/ or linked from the USPTO Web site . * Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/APS (Text Only - Retro. 1976–2001) is available on CD-ROM.

USPTO products may be purchased by check or money order, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Deposit Account, or credit card. Requests must include a telephone number for customer contact. Credit card and deposit account payments require the amount authorized to charge to the account. Credit card and deposit account payments may be submitted by mail or by fax. For Deposit Account information please call, 703-305-4631. File Description Documentation and Perl Software to convert Patent Bibliographic Data/SGML to Patent Bibliographic/APS is available for $50.00.

The following products are available on Digital Linear (DL) Tape from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

• Patent Application Data/XML
• Patent Application Image/TIFF
• Patent Full Text/APS File - Retrospective 1976 through 2001
• Patent Grant Data/OCR (each decade grouping)
• Patent Grant Data/SGML
• Patent Grant Data/XML
• Patent Grant Image/TIFF
• Patent Grant Image/TIFF (Retro. 1790–2008)
• See Detailed Calendar Year and Retrospective Data Product Descriptions
• See Terms and Conditions

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