Re: Patent data re-visited

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

yeah, but if we do that, I want my pound of flesh as well ... there is  
no reason to just fork over the money without causing a bit of a  
ruckus and seeing of we can get the patent office into this business  
again ... I suppose I could crawl them again.  It isn't that hard to  
do (but the underlying xml sure would be nice).

On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> 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