Patent Product Descriptions

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Patent Product Descriptions

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Patent Classification Definitions (US)
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.

Annual Subscription
Available from the   US Government Online Bookstore.

PRINT PUBLICATION
Individual class definitions are available from the US Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Classification Support.
Price: $25.00 per document (any length) or $30.00 per hour for historical research
For information or to order by phone call: 703-305-6101

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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. See Price List.

Retrospective data from 1976 through 2001
DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5200P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

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 (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information.  

v2.4 (Text Only) (Retro. 2001)

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5001P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

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

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.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5002P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

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.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5003P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v2.5 (Text Only) (Retro. 2004)
This file is only downloadable from the USPTO FTP site. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5004P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.0 ICE (Text Only) (Retro. 2005)
This file is only downloadable from the USPTO FTP site. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5005P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.1 ICE (Text Only) (Retro. 2006)
This file is only downloadable from the USPTO FTP site. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5006P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information.

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Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML v4.2 ICE (Text Only) (Calendar Year)
This file is only downloadable from the USPTO FTP site. See above description. There is no charge for this product.

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5000P6-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Price: free
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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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:

DLT CARTRIDGE
1920-1929 - Product Code: EIP-5804P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
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

For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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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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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.

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5351P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

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.

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5302P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5352P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5303P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5353P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
For ordering information, e-mail ipd@uspto.gov.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5304P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information.

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5354P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

Patent Grant Data/XML v4.0 (Retro. 2005)

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5305P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5355P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5306P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

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

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5356P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information.

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5300P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

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

ONLINE (FTP)
Product Code: EIP-5350P-OL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
Call 571-272-5600 or send e-mail to oeip@uspto.gov for information. 

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

DLT CARTRIDGE
Product Code: EIP-5500P-DL (Click on product code to go to price list.)
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