Patent data: ST.36 (XML)

Download records of patent applications and granted patents filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. We offer a full historical collection and provide new and updated records weekly.

Note: We only publish patent applications after a confidentiality period. This period is up to 18 months after the earliest filing date of an application.

Format

We provide this data in XML. It follows World Intellectual Property Organization standard ST.36.

Note: On May 5, 2022 , CIPO ended the production of 2 of its patent data products: 1) Administrative Status (XML); and 2) Bibliographic and full text (XML). They've been replaced by our Patent XML ST.36 product, which combines the elements of both formats into a single XML file.

Information included

• Bibliographic data: applicant names, title of invention, critical application processing dates, etc.
• Title and abstract text: a short description of the invention
• Claims: a legal description of the scope and specific attributes of a patent
• Disclosure/description: a full description of the invention

Note: We scan the applications using optical character recognition. They do not represent a legal copy.

Release notes: Fall 2021 update

Release notes on the fall 2021 Canadian Patent XML ST.36 - update to our patent bibliographic and full-text and administrative status XML data.

Download data files

Documents and resources

Sample XML file

A sample of our bibliographic and full-text data

Download new format

Data dictionary v1.0: bibliographic and full text data

A detailed description of the content, format and structure of our bibliographic and full-text data

Link Data dictionary v1.0: bibliographic and full text data

Product description: bibliographic and full-text data

An overview of how we organize our patent bibliographic and full-text data

Link Product description: patent bibliographic and full text

XML index: bibliographic and full-text data

An index of the historical data files for our bibliographic and full-text data (the contents of each folder are listed)

TXT

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent authority files

A link to the WIPO website where you can download all the patent authority files and associated definition files

The WIPO manages patent authority files from each national intellectual property office. These files provide an authoritative list of all published patents.

Link to the WIPO website

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