Patent Application Publication Bibliographic (2001 - Present)

Contains the bibliographic text (i.e., front page) of each patent application publication (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to Present (excludes images/drawings). The file formats are eXtensible Markup Language (XML) in accordance with the U.S. Patent Application Version 1.5; 1.6; 4.0 International Common Element (ICE); 4.1 ICE; 4.2 ICE; 4.3 ICE; and 4.4. ICE Document Type Definitions (DTDs). Because of the concatenation of the individual XML documents, these files will not parse successfully or open/display by default in Internet Explorer. They also will not import into MS Excel. Each XML document within the file should have one start tag and one end tag. Concatenation creates a file that contains 5,000 plus start/end tag combinations. If you take one document out of the Patent Application Publication Bibliographic file and place it in a directory with the correct DTD and then double click that individual document, Internet Explorer will parse/open the document successfully. NOTE: You may receive a warning about Active X controls. NOTE: All Patent Application Publication Bibliographic files will open successfully in MS Word; NotePad; WordPad; and TextPad. This product includes a pabyyyymmdd_wknn.zip or ipabyyyymmdd_wknn.zip file for each week [where "yyyymmdd" is a Thursday publication date and "nn" is a two-digit, fixed-length number (with leading zero) representing the sequentially-numbered week of the year]. Within each weekly zip file are (3) files: pabyyyymmdd.xml or ipabyyyymmdd.xml (Bibliographic information in XML ICE); pabyyyymmddlst.txt or ipabyyyymmddlst.txt (List of published patent application numbers in ascending order); and pabyyyymmddrpt.txt or ipabyyyymmddrpt.html (Statistical/summary report). Approx. 5,000 patent application publications per week. Approx. 2.7 MB per weekly zipfile. http://patents.reedtech.com/parbbib.php