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Weekly Bibliographic Files
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Patent Grants and Published Patent Applications

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Below are the links to the Patent Grant Bibliographic Files (September 3, 1996 through present) and the Patent Application Bibliographic Files (March 15, 2001 through present):

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• The FTP Server contains the old naming formats and conventions; and will no longer be supported after January 2009:
  
  

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http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/sgml/st32/redbook/index.html http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/sgml/st32/redbook/rb2004/rb2004.html

Patent Grant Versions:

• 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 Verison 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:

• 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
• 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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