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In patentr: Access USPTO Bulk Data in Tidy Rectangular Format

#' Patents issued in week 1 of the year 1976.
#'
#' A dataset containing information about patents issued by the United States
#' Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) <https://www.uspto.gov/> in the first
#' week of the year 1976. This can be recreated by running the
#' `get_bulk_patent_data` function in the `patentr` package and setting the
#' `year` and `week` parameters to `1976` and `1`, respectively.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 1379 rows and 9 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{WKU}{unique patient identifier}
#'   \item{Title}{patent title}
#'   \item{App_Date}{date on which patent application was submitted}
#'   \item{Issue_Date}{date on which patent was issued by USPTO}
#'   \item{Inventor}{patent inventor(s)}
#'   \item{Assignee}{person(s)/corporation(s) to whom the patent was assigned}
#'   \item{ICL_Class}{patent classification based on IPC system}
#'   \item{References}{patents referenced by this patent}
#'   \item{Claims}{free-text claims made about value of this patent}
#' }
#' @source \url{https://www.uspto.gov/}
"y1976w1"