# US Patents[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

## This plugin provides a dataset to retrieve US Patents[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

US Patents bulk datasets are made available as XML file from Google

This connector retrieves that data

Since these XML files are not well-formed, this connector provides built-in cleansing and parsing. The resulting dataset contains one “patent” column (JSON) containing the patent metadata, abstract, description and claims

The connector enables a local folder cache to simplify your developments. You can choose to retrieve the whole patent database (beware it’s big : 40GB) or any year between 2005 and 2015

## Plugin Information[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

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| Version | 0.0.3 |

| Author | Dataiku |

| Released | 2015-11-15 |

| Last updated | 2015-11-15 |

| License | Apache Software License |

| Source code | Github |

| Reporting issues | Github |

## How To Use[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

You need to install the dependencies of the plugin. Go to the Administration > Plugins page to get the command-line to install dependencies

The dataset is partitioned by year if you select to.

### Install In DSS[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

To install the plugin, open the  Apps menu, click Plugins and search for US Patents.

Alternatively, you can download a zipped version here.

### Get the Dataiku Data Sheet[¶](https://www.dataiku.com/product/plugins/uspto-patents/)

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