OpenGazette

Python tools to work with the USPTO weekly Patent Official Gazettes.

An example use, is the conversion of a zipped HTML + GIF assets of the gazette directly to a zipped tabular CSV file.

Additional uses include extraction of the exemplary claims and/or corresponding drawings.

The repository includes some light-weight example data and documentation to get started.

The source includes simple examples and stand alone command line programs.

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This repository is an active project. Anticipated revisions and extensions include :

• better document specific fields, such as the identfier
• analysis for why using filed_by versus assigned_to when generating CSV's
• pipreqs a requirements file (or use current Anaconda [base] environment)
• extend HTML parsing to additional fields, such as CPC classes
• include some minimal testing using both subset and full gazette data
• note about the not_issued patents in the gazettes
• post-processing tools for formatting query results
• comparsion of methods to query exemplary claims
• tools to post-process exemplary claims
• comparison of methods to query patent drawings
• additional features and functionality to add