DOCUMENTATION FOR THE APPLICANT_15.TXT PATENT BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA EXTRACT FILE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICANT_DOC_15.TXT 6/30/2016 12:29PM Questions about the custom patent data extract files should be directed to: US Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Information Products Division Patent Technology Monitoring Team P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 tel : (571) 272-5600 e-mail : oeip@uspto.gov Patent Bibliographic Information - Applicant Data ------------------------------------------------- Notes ----- The custom extract data file, "APPLICANT_15.TXT", generally includes applicant data for utility, design, plant, and reissue patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The inclusion of applicant data in the patent text data begins with patents granted on January 15, 2013. Applicant data are included for utility patents issued from 1/15/2013 to 12/31/2015. Applicant data are included for design, plant, and reissue patents, defensive publications, and statutory invention registrations issued from 1/15/2013 to 12/31/2015. The APPLICANT file includes the patent number, applicant sequence number (the order in which the applicant is listed on the front page of the issuing patent), the applicant organization or name, city, state/country code, residence state/country code, and applicant authority category (when specified). Please note that an applicant may appear several times in the APPLICANT file when they have received more than one patent during a specified time period. This occurs because an applicant is listed once for each patent received during the time period. Generally, if the Organization field has an entry, the Applicant Last Name, First Nane, Middle Name, and Surname Modifier will be blank, Similarly, if the Applicant Last Name has an entry, the Organization field generally will be blank. - The file format is as follows: File name: APPLICANT_15.TXT Recording Mode: ASCII File Size: 233,874,431 bytes (about 234 MB) Number of Records: 2,178,103 Begin/Char End Char Field Data Position Position Length Type Description 1 7 7 char Patent Number 8 8 1 Unused 9 11 3 integer Applicant Sequence Number 12 12 1 Unused 13 32 20 char Last Name of Applicant 33 33 1 Unused 34 48 15 char First Name of Applicant 49 49 1 Unused 50 64 15 char Middle Name of Applicant 65 65 1 Unused 66 68 3 char Surname Modifier (e.g.,"Jr.") 69 69 1 Unused 70 89 20 char City 90 90 1 Unused 91 93 3 char State/Country Code 94 94 1 Unused 95 144 50 char Applicant Authority Category 145 145 1 Unused 146 400 255 char Organization Each line is terminated with a carriage return and a line feed character (0D 0A in hexadecimal) after the last populated data field. Trailing blank spaces in each record may be removed to reduce the size of the file. The APPLICANT file is sorted first by ascending patent number (primary) and second by ascending applicant sequence number (sequence in which the applicant appears on the printed patent) (secondary). - A list of the patent numbers that do not correspond to actual patents is supplied in the file, "WITHDRAWN_75_15_PN.TXT". Since these "withdrawn" patent numbers do not correspond to valid documents, they are excluded from the data extract file. - Patents that are missing from the data extract file are listed in a separate file, "MISSING_APPLICANT_15.TXT." Applicant data for the identified patent documents appear to be substantially complete with each patent document having at least one identified applicant in the data file extract. However, it's noted that a limited number of patents may be missing one or more applicants listed on the patent front page due to issues that have occurred during the data capture process and during the process of loading the captured data into the USPTO's TAF database. - State-country code data are generally the data that appeared in the original electronic text files. A file, "ST_CNTRY_15.TXT" contains state-country codes and corresponding U.S. state and country names. THE USER SHOULD NOTE THAT FEW, IF ANY, EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO VERIFY AND TO CORRECT THE APPLICANT STATE-COUNTRY CODES DISPLAYED IN THE "APPLICANT_15.TXT" DATA FILE. - A file "LASTPN_15.TXT" has been provided that displays the last patent number by year and patent document type. - A small sample of the data contained in this data file is included in a separate file, "SAMPLE_APPLICANT_15.TXT".