Import 892 Forms

[BruceY9453]

Does anyone have an efficient way of extracting the data from a USPTO 892 form to import into AppColl? I have done OCR on the 892 pdf form and manually copy and paste references into AppColl directly but I haven't figured out a way to make that efficient. It is very time consuming.

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@BerndN5890

Can we ask how you arrived at that URL via navigating Patent Center?

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[JonahP1621]

It would be too hard for me to convert JSON to CSV and likely too hard for some other users. It sure would be nice if AppColl could make it automatic.

[BerndN5890]

@BruceY9453 Just started looking into this. US references could be obtained in JSON format from PatentCenter. Would not be too hard to convert to CSV for import into AppColl.

https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/retrieval/private/v2/applications/patentReferenceDocumentMetadata?applicationNumberText=15777677

Foreign references are going to be much harder to load automatically.

[JonahP1621]

I have wondered the same thing. If the USPTO publishes prior art citation information in any format other than rasterized images of text, it's a good request for AppColl to get it. If the USPTO doesn't, that's a good product request for them.