Hi Carl
This might be useful to know wrt the US patents.
The USPTO site ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/patdata/ contains patent files for the years 2002 to 2008 BUT they are only Bibliographic patent files which are defined as the information on the front page of each patent. I've checked a sample of these files and they are bibliographic patent files. Additionally, from 2002 these files changed format from APS to XML.
To obtain the full-Text/XML patent files for the years 2002 to 2008 costs $1,300 per year.
Best wishes
Dinesh
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Patent data
ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/patdata/ doesn't do it for you?
Carl
On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> Unfortunately, both the USPTO and freepatentsonline charge quite
> hefty sums for archived data.
>
> Dinesh
>
>
> From: Carl Malamud
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:24 AM
> To: Dinesh B Vadhia
> Subject: Re: Patent data
>
> Hi -
>
> The patent office was making bulk data available by ftp ... I'd start
> with them and see what they have. If they don't have it, you might
> try freepatentsonline or one of the other services and see if they can
> help you out.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carl
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
>
> > Hi Carl
> >
> > I just came across this truly wondeful site - what a treasure
> > trove! On the patent page (http://bulk.resource.org/patent/?
> > C=N;O=A) it says that the patent data is from the period 1983 to
> > 2000. How does one go about getting patent data to date?
> >
> > Thank-you!
> >
> > Dinesh Vadhia
> > CEO
> > Xyggy Corporation
> > Mountain View, CA
> >
> >
>
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