referencedby.rb is a simple Ruby application which acquires a list of
patent numbers which are referencing a given patent.
The application's purpose is to:
- Verify accuracy of ongoing updates for referenced by patent table resulting from SQL query.
- Provide a snapshot of a selection of patent web pages displayed on both Google and USPTO for providing test data and long term monitoring of changes in displayed data.
spec: manual counts to match. separate test fixtures from
The patent web pages are stored in the ./data directory, sorted
according to provenance.
- USPTO
Consider making output as report? The idea is making it super easy to check results visually.
- Wrap the kernel in a class, initialize with desired patent number,
hold xpath parsed results in
attr_accessible :patents.
Most recently verified references can be found at https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/fidownloads/reffedby.csv.zip
Most recent references (unverified) can be found at https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/fidownloads/citations_mar262013.csv.zip
citations_mar262013.csv is a table of forward citations. The first column is a patent number, the second column is a patent that it references.