Patent Grant Bibliographic (Front Page) Text Data - XML
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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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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | July 14, 2025 |
| Metadata last updated | July 14, 2025 |
| Created | July 14, 2025 |
| Format | application/xml |
| License | No License Provided |
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| Datastore active | False |
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| Id | b67bff9c-1a58-42e5-90fb-893b483228dd |
| Issuedate | 2002-01-01 |
| Lastupdatedate | 2025-07-14 |
| Mimetype | application/xml |
| Package id | fbc56689-3133-453c-a659-1a9a66e0d9b6 |
| Position | 0 |
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| Ressize | 18.7 GB |
| State | active |
| Status | active |
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