Is there a way to download all of the patents?

Question

[Wayne]

Hey everyone,

I am looking to do some clustering analysis on patents.... and of course it would be great to be able to create a document corpus that consistent of all patents year by year ( or certainly a good chunk).

Idea is to analyze all emerging areas around certain fields in genomics and bioinformatics, but I don't want to limit the analysis by including arbitrary (non ML derived ) categories...I'm looking to create the categories myself.

Does anyone know how to access/download patents in high-throughput?

Thanks so much !!

[Ram]

Maybe check out https://opendata.stackexchange.com/ ?

[Wayne]

The whole reason for doing this is to analyze bioinformatics patents... I don't want to take a category view though I want to cluster all patents and find new clusters relating to bioinformatics...

[Ram]

If only that were mentioned somewhere in the question... I'll reopen it now.

Answer 1

[h.mon]

Look at this repository to get some ideas and code on how to download patents from Google Patents database:

https://github.com/yarden/iv_patents_and_universities

By the way, searching for "patents" on GitHub gives me, among the top hits:

https://github.com/iamlemec/patents

Parse, match (within and Compustat), and analyze USPTO patent data

https://github.com/google/patents-public-data

Patent analysis using the Google Patents Public Datasets on BigQuery

https://github.com/hopped/uspto-patents-parsing-tools

Some parsing tools for USPTO patents google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents.html

https://github.com/55minutes/python-epo-ops-client

Python Client for the European Patent Office's Open Patent Services API

But the best is:

https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator

Transforms literary/philosophical texts into patent applications