# PatentSlurp
Patent slurper for Dr Lars Hass, LUMS
# TODO
1) Add stripper for redundant xml tags
2) Harvest below data from Google dumps 2001-2015:
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storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
sta str2 %2s assg/state
cnt str3 %3s assg/country
assgnum byte %8.0g assg/assignee seq. number (imc)
cty str72 %72s assg/city
pdpass long %12.0g Unique assignee number
ptype str1 %9s patent type
patnum long %12.0g patent number
3) Compare data with NBER data (http://eml.berkeley.edu/~bhhall/NBER06.html)
4) ...
# Useful Tools
http://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer
http://www.regexr.com/
