README.md

SixArm.com → Ruby →
USPTO: United State Patent and Trademark Office

• Git: https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_ruby_uspto
• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_uspto/doc
• Gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_uspto
• Contact: Joel Parker Henderson, joel@sixarm.com
• Project: changes, license, contributing.

Introduction

Provides a "Patent" class for working with USPTO Gazette XML.

See USPTO Bulk Downloads: Patent Grant Full Text:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants-text.html

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_uspto/doc

Install

Gem

To install this gem in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_uspto

Gemfile

To add this gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_uspto'

Require

To require the gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_uspto'

Examples

require "sixarm_ruby_uspto"
require "nokogiri"

text = File.read("patent.xml")
doc = Nokogiri.XML(text)
patent = Patent.new(:doc => doc)

patent.id #=> "US1234"
patent.date #=> "20120101"
patent.claims #=> XML element of claim items