Patent Grant Bibliographic (Front Page) Text Data - XML

Contains the concatenated bibliographic text (front page) of each patent grant document issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 1, 1976 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Grant 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': '2002-01-01', 'name': 'Creation and publication of dataset'}, {'date': '2025-07-08', 'name': 'Date of collection of last data point'}, {'date': '2025-07-14', 'name': 'Dataset updated'}]
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metadata_created 2026-10-30T17:37:20.004969
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T17:37:20.004973
notes Contains the concatenated bibliographic text (front page) of each patent grant document issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 1, 1976 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Grant 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 Grant Bibliographic (Front Page) Text Data - XML