# [Grant Red Book (GRB)][1] Full Text ## Context Every Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues approximately 6,000 patent grants (patents) and posts the full text of the patents online. These patent grant documents contain much of the supporting details for a given patent. From this data, we can track trends in innovation across industries. * **Frequency**: Weekly (Tuesdays) * **Period**: 10/11/2016 ## Content The fields include patent number, series code and application number, type of patent, filing date, title, issue date, applicant information, inventor information, assignee(s) at time of issue, foreign priority information, related US patent documents, classification information (IPCR, CPC, US), US and foreign references, attorney, agent or firm/legal representative, examiner, citations, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) information, abstract, specification, and claims. Inspiration How many times will you find “some assembly required”? What inventions are at the cutting edge of machine learning? To answer these questions and any others you may have about this catalog of knowledge, fork the kernel [Library of Inventions and Innovations][2] which demonstrates how to work with XML files in Python. ![Library of inventions and innovations][3] ## Acknowledgements The USPTO owns the dataset. These files are a subset and concatenation of the Patent Grant Data/XML Version 4.5 ICE (Grant Red Book). Because of the concatenation of the individual XML documents, these files will not parse successfully or open/display by default in Internet Explorer. They also will not import into MS Excel. Each XML document within the file should have one start tag and one end tag. Concatenation creates a file that contains 6,000 plus start/end tag combinations. If you take one document out of the Patent Grant Full Text file and place it in a directory with the correct DTD and then double click that individual document, Internet Explorer will parse/open the document successfully. NOTE: You may receive a warning about Active X controls. NOTE: All Patent Grant Full Text files will open successfully in MS Word; NotePad; WordPad; and TextPad. ## License [Creative Commons - Public Domain Mark 1.0][4] [1]: https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/xml-resources [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/the1owl/d/uspto/patent-grant-full-text/library-of-inventions-and-innovations [3]: https://www.kaggle.io/svf/414669/d3dada6fe220c7cfe62881c49a433327/__results___files/__results___8_0.png [4]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0