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	    Bibliographic Information on Issued Patent Grants and
			 Published Patent Applications

   The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently enhanced
its distribution of Patent Bibliographic information. Beginning October 1,
2008, the Patent Grant Bibliographic files and Patent Application
Bibliographic files listed below were made available for download through
the Online Product Catalog at https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS. The USPTO will
maintain the same data at both the new Online Product Catalog location and
the old, anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) location only until January
30, 2009. Files will continue to be available at no charge, but after
January 30, 2009, files will only be available from the new Online Product
Catalog location.

   For the latest information on USPTO Products and Services, see "What's
New in CIS" on the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/
cis/whatsnew.htm. Please direct any questions or comments to Electronic
Information Products Division, 571-272-5600 or ipd@uspto.gov.

   * Patent Grant Versions (September 3, 1996, to present):

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.2 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2007 -
        present) - a subset of the Patent Grant Data/XML ICE (a.k.a., Grant
        Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.1 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2006 -
        December 2006) - a subset of the Patent Grant Data/XML ICE (a.k.a.,
        Grant Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.0 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2005 -
        December 2005) - a subset of the Patent Grant Data/XML ICE (a.k.a.,
        Grant Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML Version 2.5 (Text Only)
        (Retrospective January 2002 - December 2004) - a subset of the
        Patent Grant Data/XML (a.k.a., Grant Red Book) XML with "B" tags

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/SGML Version 2.4 (Text Only)
        (Retrospective January 2001 - December 2001) - a subset of Patent
        Grant Data/SGML (a.k.a., Grant Red Book) SGML with "B" tags

      .	Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/APS (Text Only) (Retrospective
        September 3, 1996 - December 2000) - a subset of the Patent Full-
        Text/APS (a.k.a., Green Book)

   * Patent Application Versions (March 15, 2001, to present):

      .	Patent Appl. Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.2 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2007 -
        present) - a subset of the Patent Application Data/XML ICE (a.k.a.,
        Application Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags

      .	Patent Appl. Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.1 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2006 -
        December 2006) - a subset of the Patent Application Data/XML ICE
        (a.k.a., Application Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags

      .	Patent Appl. Bibliographic Data/XML Version 4.0 International
        Common Element (ICE) (Text Only) (Retrospective January 2005 -
        December 2005) - a subset of the Patent Application Data/XML ICE
        (a.k.a., Application Red Book ICE) XML with descriptive tags
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      .	Patent Appl. Bibliographic Data/XML Version 1.6 (Text Only)
        (Retrospective January 2002 - December 2004) - a subset of the
        Patent Application Data/XML (a.k.a., Application Red Book) XML with
        "B" tags

      .	Patent Appl. Bibliographic Data/XML Version 1.5 (Text Only)
        (Retrospective March 15, 2001 - December 2001) - a subset of the
        Patent Application Data/XML (a.k.a., Application Red Book) XML with
        "B" tags

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