Re: Patent data re-visited

[Aaron Swartz <xx@aaronsw.com>]

seems like it just takes cash

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org> wrote:
> i so much did not want to be back in the patent business.  that's why I
> tried to ignore the binder issue.
>
> ok, this is pretty high on my list ...
>
> Carl
>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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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