Below is a link to a folder that includes WIPO classifications for all utility patents granted from January 1976 through December 2023. This folder includes eight different zip files. For ease of download and ease of importing, files are divided by patent number. File“wipo_5m.tsv.zip” includes all patents issued beginning January 1976 through patent number 5,000,000. File“wipo_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
wipo_field_id
WIPO field
wipo_sequence
Patent-level position within WIPO classifications
wipo_sector_title
WIPO sector title
wipoe_field_title
WIPO field title
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.