Patent Project

Elise Rust & Zachary Poley

CLEAR Ventures November 2021

Patent parser to download and parse all patent files available at https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/ from years 2010 - 2020.

Directory:

• Patent_Link_Scraper.py
  • Takes https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/ and generates a table of zip file links containing patents
• Patent_Parser.py
  • Unzipping zip files and generating dictionaries for each patent
• Zip_Download.py
  • Sub script of Patent_Parser.py containing just zip download/unzip process
• Zip_to_Dict.py
  • Sub script of Patent_Parser.py containing parsing script to generate dictionaries from each patent .html file
• ZipLinks.csv
  • Table of zip file links containing patents
• Patents.json
  • Sample dictionaries of first five patents in list