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Patent Grant Bibliographic Text (2001 to Present): Contains the bibliographic text (i.e., front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 2001 to Present (excludes images/drawings). The file formats are Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in accordance with the U.S. Patent Grant Version 2.4 Document Type Definition (DTD) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) in accordance with the U.S. Patent Grant Version 2.5; 4.0 International Common Element (ICE); 4.1 ICE; and 4.2 ICE Document Type Definitions (DTDs). Because of the concatenation of the individual documents, these files are not well-formed SGML/XML. These files contain non-repeatable (not unique) tags. For example, each SGML or XML document within the file should have one start tag and one end tag. Concatenation creates a file that contains 4,000 plus start/end tag combinations. This means that the file will not parse successfully or open/display by default in Internet Explorer. If you put these files along with the appropriate Document Type Definition (DTD) in the same directory and double click on these weekly files, Internet Explorer will give you an error: Access is denied. Error processing resource 'us-patent-grant-v42-2006-08-23.dtd'. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Do... But if you take one document out of the Patent Grant Bibliographic Text file and place it in a directory with the correct DTD and then double click that individual document, Internet Explorer will open the file successfully. NOTE: You may receive a warning about Active X controls. Additionally, if you take one document out of the Patent Grant Bibliographic Text file and open it with MS Excel as an XML List, it will import the data under column headings from the XML tags. NOTE: All Patent Grant Bibliographic Text files will open successfully in MS Word; NotePad; WordPad; and TextPad. This product includes a pgbyyyymmdd_wknn.zip or ipgbyyyymmdd_wknn.zip file for each week [where "yyyymmdd" is a Tuesday issue date and "nn" is a two-digit, fixed-length number (with leading zero) representing the sequentially-numbered week of the year]. Within each weekly zip file are three (3) files: pgbyyyymmdd.xml or ipgbyyyymmdd.xml (Bibliographic information in XML ICE); pgbyyyymmddlst.txt or ipgbyyyymmddlst.txt (List of patent grant numbers in ascending order); pgbyyyymmddrpt.txt or ipgbyyyymmddrpt.html (Statistical/summary report). Approximatley 4,000 patent grants per week. Approximatley 5 MB per weekly zipfile. Patent Grant Bibliographic Text (1976 to 2001): Contains the bibliographic text (i.e., front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 1976 to December 2001 (excludes images/drawings). The file format is a subset of the Green Book, ASCII text. Includes patent number, series code and application number, type of patent, filing date, title, issue date, inventor information, assignee name at time of issue, foreign priority information, related US patent documents, classification information, U.S. and foreign references, attorney, agent or firm/legal representative, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) information, abstract, and if present Statement of U.S. Government Interest. This file is a subset of the Patent Full-Text/APS Retrospective 1976-2001. Approximately 4,000 patent grants per week. Approximately 1.6 GB total.