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Patent Grant Maintenance Fee Events EIP-5710P-OL

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Commerce
Sub-Agency	US Patent and Trademark Office
Category	Business Enterprise
Date Released	09/01/1981
Date Updated	12/08/2009
Time Period	Weekly (Tuesdays)
Frequency	continuous
Description	Contains recorded maintenance fee events for patents granted from September 1, 1981 to present. Each new weekly file is cumulative. The file format is ASCII/TXT. Available weekly (Tuesdays @ 02:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time) at no charge from: https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/MaintFeeEvents.zip No order/order form is required. This product includes a MaintFeeEvents.zip file for each week (cumulative). Within each weekly zip file is: MaintFeeEvents_yyyymmdd.txt where "yyyymmdd" is a Monday. For more information about these files: https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/MaintFeeEventsFileDocumentation.doc (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Administrative
Keywords	Department of Commerce, DOC, United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, USPTO, patent, patent grant, maintenance fee, event code, intellectual property, IP, inventor, invention, innovation, rights, weekly, tuesday, national, international, federal datasets, federal data download, search, file, examine, zip, ASCII
Unique ID	1300

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	USPTO Patent Grant Maintenance Fee Events https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/MaintFeeEvents.zip
Agency Program Page	http://www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm
Agency Data Series Page	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS/

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Patent Grant Maintenance Fees
Granularity
Geographic Coverage	National and international

Data Description

Collection Mode	person/paper, person/computer
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/maintain.jsp
Data Dictionary/Variable List	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/MaintFeeEventsFileDocumentation.doc

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents/MaintFeeEventsFileDocumentation.doc
Additional Metadata	https://eipweb.uspto.gov/MaintFeeEvents

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