Re: Patent data re-visited

[Aaron Swartz <xx@aaronsw.com>]

not that I know of. it sucks.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> well, this is annoying.  does anybody have full text of u.s. patents from
> 2002 on available for general use?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "Dinesh B Vadhia" <xxxxxxx@hotmail.com>
> Date: January 13, 2009 1:56:10 AM PST
> To: "Carl Malamud" <xxxxxxx@media.org>
> Subject: Re: Patent data re-visited
> Hi Carl
>
> This might be useful to know wrt the US patents.
>
> The patents on http://bulk.resource.org/patent/us/ are full-Text/APS format
> files for the years 1976-2001 (inclusive).  These files are the complete
> 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
>
> From: Carl Malamud
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:59 AM
> To: Dinesh B Vadhia
> 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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