Below is a link to a folder that includes all foreign citation data for patents granted from January 1976 through December 2023. This folder includes nine different zip files. For ease of download and ease of importing, files are divided by patent number. File“foreign_cites_non_utility.tsv.zip” includes all non-utility patents. File“foreign_cites_5m.tsv.zip” includes all patents issued beginning January 1976 through patent number 5,000,000. File“foreign_cites_6m.tsv.zip” includes all patents between patent number 5,000,001 and patent number 6,000,000. Etc, etc.
Each file contains the following columns:
Variable
Description
patnum
Patent number
patcite_num
Patent number of foreign citation
patcite_idate
Issue(grant) date of foreign citation(mm/yyyy)
patcite_country
Country of foreign citation
cited_by
Person who cited patent(examiner, applicant, etc.)
sequence
Patent-level position within foreign citations
If you have any issues downloading the data, find any problems with the data, or have suggestions for how to make the data better/more user friendly, please let me know: mwoeppel@iu.edu.