v1.2.1

v1.2.1

• Added warnings.simplefilter("ignore") to .test_case_parse() method to avoid showing annoying warnings.
• Patent data can now handle parsing patent claims that have a range of canceled claims.
• Generalized end_sentence_patterns to be slightly more flexible.
• Added webdriver-manager to simplify management of binary driver for Selenium.
• Bug fixes

v1.2 released on Github

v1.2

• An independent module google_patent_api.py is added to scrape patent data.
• EPO patents are now downloadable without claims missing.
• Patent data can now contain patent descriptions using the option include_description = True in .patent_data() of the GCLParse class.
• Claim/description extraction is more fine-grained and robust.
• depdendent_on value for each claim in patents_in_suit is now a list. It can take more than one value in case there are references to more than one preceding claim.
• The method .grab_ifw() of the USPTOscrape class can take the skip_download argument now to avoid sending requests in case the data file already exists in the local disk.
• Bug fixes