A linked open data representation of patents registered in the US from 2005-2017.

ABSTRACT: Patents are widely used to protect intellectual property and a measure of innovation output. Each year, the USPTO grants over 150,000 patents to individuals and companies all over the world. In fact, there were more than 280,000 patent grants issued in the US in 2015. However, accessing, searching and analyzing those patents is often still cumbersome and inefficient. To overcome those problems, Google indexes patents and converts them to Extensible Markup Language (XML) files using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. In this article, we take this idea one step further and provide semantically rich, machine-readable patents using the Linked Data principles. We have converted the data spanning 12 years - i.e. 2005-2017 from XML to Resource Description Framework (RDF) format, conf

SUBMITTER: Hassan MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6278688 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature