
                      U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
                  Electronic Information Products Division
                   Patent Technology Monitoring Team
                           26-March-2007


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The FTP area, "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/", contains most PTMT reports and 
tables available at the USPTO Web Site. See the file, "reports.htm," for a listing
of the PTMT reports and their associated file names.

General information about PTMT and about reports, products, and services available
from PTMT is available in the file, "brochure.htm." Information relating to older 
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from that earlier organization) is available in the file, "brochure_old_ntis.htm".

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Please note that most standard PTMT patent statistics reports produced during an annual update 
have been placed in one compressed pkZip file to facilitate downloading. Go to the following location:
"ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/basic_reports/".

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Specifications relating to several custom CD-ROMs that contain patent data
extracts are available at "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/data_cd.doc/".

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Several PTMT DRILL-DOWN reports have been placed in compressed 
pkZip files to facilitate downloading. Go to "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/drill_dn/".

The annual PTMT U.S. Government Patenting Reports have been 
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"ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/us_govt/".

The annual PTMT Patenting By U.S. Colleges and Universities Reports have been 
placed in a compressed pkZip files to facilitate downloading. Go to 
"ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/us_univ/".

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Spreadsheets containing data relating to several older PTMT reports are available in several
additional directories within "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/". 
In particular, see the directory:
  - "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/metro_area_1999", for spreadsheets
    relating to the PTMT report, "U.S. Patent Grants by State, County, and Metropolitan Area, 
    (1990 to the present (1999))".
  - "ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/misc/metro_area_99_percap", for spreadsheets
    relating to the PTMT report, "United States Patent Grants - Number of Grants Per 100,000
    Population, By Metropolitan Area, 1998".

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Please note that an electronic file comprising a concordance between the 
U.S. Patent Classification System and the 1972 Standard Industrial Classification
System has been placed in a compressed ZIP extension file to facilitate downloading. See 
"ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/sic_conc/".

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Contact Information
Questions regarding these reports should be directed to: 

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Electronic Information Products Division - PTMT (formerly TAF Branch)
MDW 4C18; P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

tel: (571) 272-5600
FAX: (571) 273-0110
email oeip@uspto.gov 

web address of PTMT Reports : http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/tafp.html
ftp location of PTMT materials : ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/ 

