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USPTO-Bulk-Data-Tool

A configurable tool for concurrent processing of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) bulk data zip files.

At this time, the tool supports the following USPTO bulk data products:

  • Patent Grant Full Text Data (No Images) (2004 - Present)
  • Patent Application Full Text Data (No Images) (2004 - Present)

Given a directory of USPTO zip files, the application will produce one of the following outputs:

  • Complete XML files of individual documents split out from the zip
  • JSON files of individual documents
    • Selective (non-exhaustive) parsing of main document fields
    • Structured patent claims representing referential relationships, as in the original PatentPublicData tool
    • HTML formatting of Abstract and Description fields
  • Apache Parquet files corresponding to bulk zip files

Usage

Clone this repository. Edit the config.toml as needed - the most important config values are the first three:

[required]
inputdirectory = "data/in"
outputdirectory = "data/out"
outputmode = "json"

For the most basic setup, create data/in directories within the project root, and populate the /in directory with zip files to process.

Then, from the root of project directory:

make run

For more advanced usage running the application from somewhere other than the root of the project directory, the executable accepts a single optional argument specifying the path to a config.toml file.

License

MIT