Patent Product Descriptions

Patent Classification Definitions (U.S.)

Contains a detailed description of each class and official subclass of the US Patent Classification (USPC) System. The definitions indicate the subject matter found in or excluded from a class or a subclass, limiting or expanding, in a precise manner, the meaning intended for each subclass title, and serve as a guide to users of the Manual of Classification by eliminating, as much as possible, the subjective and varying interpretations of the meanings of the subclass titles. Notes are included to illustrate the kinds of information that can be found in a subclass and direct the searcher to other related subclasses which may contain relevant information.

DVD-ROM

A searchable file of the classification definitions text is included on Patents ASSIST.

MICROFICHE

Available from the US Government Online Bookstore. 

Individual class definitions are available from the US Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Patent Classification

Price: $25.00 per document (any length) and $40.00 per hour for historical research
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Patent Full Text/APS (Retro. 1976 - 2001)

The Retrospective File from 1976-2001 inclusive contains the full text of each patent issued.

This file is formatted in accordance with the specification required by the text and retrieval software which resides on the USPTO's automated patent search systems. Tables and "in-line" mathematical equations are present, where appropriate, and appear as text data. Chemical structures are not present, but their location is indicated by a structure call-out. Includes patent number, series code and application number, type of patent, filing date, title, assignee name at time of issue, attorney, agent or firm/legal representative, related US Patent documents, classification information, field of search, US and foreign references, priority data, abstract, specification, and claims.

Approximately 90 GB. Individual years are available on DLT. 

Retrospective data from 1976 through 2001
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Product Code: EIP-5200P-DL 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/APS (Text Only) (Retro. 1976 - 2001)

The Patent Bibliographic/APS (Retrospective) contains patent front page bibliographic information (excluding drawings). Fields in the patent record include patent number, series code and application number, type of patent, filing date, title, assignee name at time of issue, attorney, agent or firm/legal representative, related US patent documents, classification information, and abstract. Each weekly update contains approximately 3,000 patents (8 million characters).

This retrospective file with data from January 1976 through December 2001 is available on CD-ROM TAR volume, approximately 1.6 GB. Each year zipped, weeks within each year concatenated.

CD-ROM
Product Code: EIP-5000P-CD 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/APS (Text Only) (Retro. 09/1996 - 12/2001)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5000P-OL 
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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/SGML v2.4 (Text Only) (Retro. 2001)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS.  It contains patent front page bibliographic information (excluding drawings). Fields in the patent record include patent number, series code and application number, type of patent, filing date, title, assignee name at time of issue, attorney, agent or firm/legal representative, related US patent documents, classification information, and abstract. Each weekly update contains approximately 3,000 patents (three megabytes). There is no charge for this product which includes the Perl Software to convert Patent Bibliographic Data/SGML to Patent Bibliographic/APS. The File Description Documentation is available for $50.00.

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Product Code: EIP-5000P-OL 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2002)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

The file format is Extensible Markup Language (XML) in accordance with the US Patent Application V1.6 2002-01-03 Document Type Definition (DTD). Tables and sequence data are included using CALS SGML markup. Mathematical expressions are included using MATHML XML Markup and external Mathematica Notebook (NB) files. Chemical structures are represented by external CS ChemDraw (CDX) and MDL Information Systems (MOL) files. Drawings, mathematical expressions, and chemical structures also include external Tagged Image Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 with CCITT Group 4 Compression) files.

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Product Code: EIP-5002P-OL

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2003)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

The file format is Extensible Markup Language (XML) in accordance with the US Patent Application V1.6 2002-01-03 Document Type Definition (DTD). Tables and sequence data are included using CALS SGML markup. Mathematical expressions are included using MATHML XML Markup and external Mathematica Notebook (NB) files. Chemical structures are represented by external CS ChemDraw (CDX) and MDL Information Systems (MOL) files. Drawings, mathematical expressions, and chemical structures also include external Tagged Image Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 with CCITT Group 4 Compression) files.

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Product Code: EIP-5003P-OL

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2004)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5004P-OL 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.0 ICE (Text Only) (Retro. 2005)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5005P-OL 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.1 ICE (Text Only) (Retro. 2006)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5006P-OL 

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.2 ICE (Text Only) (Calendar Year)

This file is downloadable from the USPTO Web site at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5006P-OL 
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Patent Grant Data/OCR

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Documents provides ASCII text for the US patent grants issued prior to 1980 for which there was no searchable text in the USPTO US Patent database. The ASCII text for these patents was generated by processing 300 dpi Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) images of the patent pages through an OCR engine. The resulting ASCII text has not undergone any manual validation or correction processes.

The 7 DLT Cartridges contain patent grant text produced using the US Patent Grant Image data from 1920 through 1979 as input. The additional DLT cartridge (1920-1979 Update) contains documents from 1920 through 1979 that were either captured again because of errors in the original OCR documents or because they were not present in the original capture. When purchasing one or more of the 1920 to 1970 OCR DLT Cartridges, the 1920 to 1979 update is provided free of charge. A sample file of this OCR data is available on a CD–R at no charge. The following year ranges are available:

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1920-1929 - Product Code: EIP-5804P-DL 
1930-1939 - Product Code: EIP-5805P-DL
1940-1949 - Product Code: EIP-5806P-DL

1950-1959 - Product Code: EIP-5807P-DL 
1960-1964 - Product Code: EIP-5808P-DL 
1965-1969 - Product Code: EIP-5809P-DL
1970-1979 - Product Code: EIP-5810P-DL 

1920 - 1979 Update - Product Code: EIP-5811P-DL (free)

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Patent Grant Data/SGML v2.4 (Retro. 2001)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data, and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued. The file format is Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in accordance with the ST.32 US Patent Grant V1.9 2000-03-07 Data Type Definition (DTD). Each weekly update contains approximately 3,000 patents. All patents are contained in a single zip (about 35 megabytes) file. When unzipped, the weekly files are about 230 megabytes. Offered as an annual subscription.

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Product Code: EIP-5301P-DL

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Patent Grant Data/SGML v2.4 (Text Only) (Retro. 2001)

Contains the full text of each patent issued. The file format is Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in accordance with the ST.32.

Annual Subscription

Each weekly update contains approximately 3,000 patents (600 megabytes) on one DLT magnetic tape. All files associated with a specific patent are compressed and zipped into a single patent zip file. Zipped patent files are grouped by type and re-zipped (but not compressed) into a single weekly update file.

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Product Code: EIP-5351P-DL 

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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Retro. 2002)

Contains the full text, drawings, and complex work units (tables, mathematical expressions, sequence data, and chemical structures) of each patent issued.

Tables and sequence data are included using CALS SGML markup. Mathematical expressions are included using MATHML XML Markup and external Mathematica Notebook (NB) files. Chemical structures are represented by external CS ChemDraw (CDX) and MDL Information Systems (MOL) files. Drawings, mathematical expressions, and chemical structures also include external Tagged Image Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 with CCITT Group 4 Compression) files.

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Product Code: EIP-5302P-DL 

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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2002)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5352P-DL 

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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Retro. 2003)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5303P-DL

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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2003)

Contains the full text of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5352P-DL
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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Retro. 2004)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5304P-DL 
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Patent Grant Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2004)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5354P-DL 
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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.0 (Retro. 2005)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5305P-DL 
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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.0 (Text Only) (Retro. 2005)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5355P-DL  
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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.1 (Retro. 2006)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5306P-DL 
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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.1 (Text Only) (Retro. 2006)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5356P-OL 

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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.2 ICE (Calendar Year)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5300P-DL 
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Patent Grant Data/XML v4.2 ICE (Text Only) (Calendar Year)

Contains the full text including tables, sequence data and "in-line" mathematical expressions of each patent issued.

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Product Code: EIP-5350P-OL 
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Patent Grant Image/TIFF (Calendar)

This file contains the facsimile image of every page of virtually every patent issued for the current year. Images for patents issued since 1976 are available on the PTO Web site.

DVD-ROM

From 1790 to date, this file is available on USAPat. The Cassis Sampler includes a small sample of this product.

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Product Code: EIP-5500P-DL
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