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Certificates include post issuance documents, e.g., ex parte and inter partes reexamination documents. These were weekly and are daily starting on Ocotober of 2012.
Contains the images of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from July 31, 1790 to December 26, 2023 in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) Revision 6.0 with CCITT Group 4 Compression (single-page TIFFs). Includes a separate weekly Certificates-of-Correction (C-of-C) file and a daily Certificates file.
Certificates-of-Correction (C-of-C) File (2010 - present) contains a listing of all Certificates of Correction for US patent documents and lists the following fields: Document Number; Publication Date; and Kind of Document Code (always "X6"). Layout information for the Certificates of Correction File is provided and additional information regarding Certificates of Correction can be found on the list at the following location https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/general-information-concerning-patents#heading-26
Bnnnnn.tar: Rescans of miscellaneous documents from miscellaneous years (1790 - present). The filename relates to the Digital Linear Tape (DLT) cartridge.
These documents replace the original data disseminated by the Electronic Information Products Division (EIPD). For more information on the data, contact ipd@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).
The Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute at issue is 35 USC 154(b)(2)(c), which provides for a deduction from any PTA award "equal to the period of time during which the applicant failed to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude prosecution of the application." The statute also expressly delegates to the USPTO the authority to "prescribe regulations establishing the circumstances that constitute a failure of an applicant to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude processing or examination of an application."
The historical_masterfile contains micro-level application, NBER sub-category, and prosecution data on 2.2 million patent applications filed from 1981 to 2015 and 8.9 million patents issued through 2014.
Contains four research datasets containing time series and micro-level data by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) technology sub-category on applications, grants, and in-force patents spanning two centuries of innovation. For more information: https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ip-policy/economic-research/research-datasets
The monthly file contains a monthly count of applications, issued patents, and in-force patents by application status, disposal type (abandoned, issued, or pending), and NBER sub-category from 1981 to 2015.