A dataset containing information about patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) <https://www.uspto.gov/> in the first week of the year 1976. This can be recreated by running the `get_bulk_patent_data` function in the `patentr` package and setting the `year` and `week` parameters to `1976` and `1`, respectively.
y1976w1A data frame with 1379 rows and 9 variables:
unique patient identifier
patent title
date on which patent application was submitted
date on which patent was issued by USPTO
patent inventor(s)
person(s)/corporation(s) to whom the patent was assigned
patent classification based on IPC system
patents referenced by this patent
free-text claims made about value of this patent