Questions tagged [file-format]
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USPTO Patent XML, understanding the us-field-of-classification-search element
I'm working with XML from the USPTO bulk download which provides weekly downloads of XML of published patent grants. I'm using this documentation to understand the files.
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Can patents on computer file formats be obtained?
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When talking about file formats (= data formats intended for files), it is easy to confuse the data format and the algorithm used to produce or decode this format. This is mostly due to the ...