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Historical masterfile

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.
Updated: 2015-07-02

  Download (228.4 MB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jul 02, 2015

Orders class

This is one of three Orders intermediate files used to generate the four datasets are also available for download.
Updated: 2015-07-02

  Download (15.64 MB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jul 02, 2015

Historical patent data files (stata (.dta) and MS excel (.csv))

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
Updated: 2015-06-25

  Download (105.14 KB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jun 25, 2015

Monthly

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.
Updated: 2015-06-25

  Download (279.84 KB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jun 25, 2015

Monthly disposal

The monthly_disposal dataset contains counts of application by disposal type for each monthly application cohort by NBER sub-category from 1981 to 2015.
Updated: 2015-06-25

  Download (37.66 MB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jun 25, 2015

Orders

This is one of three Orders intermediate files used to generate the four datasets are also available for download.
Updated: 2015-06-25

  Download (49.78 KB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jun 25, 2015

Orders sub-class

This is one of three Orders intermediate files used to generate the four datasets are also available for download.
Updated: 2015-06-25

  Download (5.34 MB)
Dates Available Jun 25, 2015 – Jun 25, 2015

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