Cancer Moonshot Patent Data Files for Academia and Researchers

This curated dataset consists of 269,353 patent documents (published patent applications and granted patents) spanning the 1976 to 2016 period and is intended to help identify promising R&D on the horizon in diagnostics, therapeutics, data analytics, and model biological systems.

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Last Updated July 14, 2025, 04:12 (UTC)
Created July 14, 2025, 04:12 (UTC)
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creationMethod Learn more about dataset's creation method at: https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/moonshot
creatorEmail
creatorName
dataProvenance [{'date': '2016-08-19', 'name': 'Creation and publication of dataset'}, {'date': '2016-08-19', 'name': 'Date of collection of last data point'}, {'date': '2025-07-14', 'name': 'Dataset updated'}]
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datasetVersion v2.0
docsURL https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/moonshot
issueDate 2016-08-19
lang English
lastUpdateDate 2025-07-14
pocEmail data@uspto.gov
pocName USPTO Office of Data Management
pocWebsite https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/organizational-offices/office-commissioner-patents/data-management
publisherEmail
publisherName
purpose Learn more about dataset's purpose at: https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/moonshot
status submitted
theme ['patent']
timezone EST
updateFreq Yearly
uploadType dataset
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