Patent Application Bibliographic (Front Page) Data

Contains the concatenated bibliographic text (front page) of each patent application XML document (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data. Note: The concatenated file in its entirety is not a valid XML document; it must be un-concatenated back to individual XML documents for XML data processing.

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dataProvenance [{'date': '2001-03-15', 'name': 'Creation and publication of dataset'}, {'date': '2025-07-10', 'name': 'Date of collection of last data point'}, {'date': '2025-07-14', 'name': 'Dataset updated'}]
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notes Contains the concatenated bibliographic text (front page) of each patent application XML document (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data. Note: The concatenated file in its entirety is not a valid XML document; it must be un-concatenated back to individual XML documents for XML data processing.
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title Patent Application Bibliographic (Front Page) Data