References of patentr Output not matching with USPTO portal for week 1 2019 data

[NJStudent1]

Hi,

I noticed that the csv output for week 1 for 2019 has blank values for the "references" field for all WKUs. I checked randomly for references for some of them on https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair using their patent number as the search field and found the latest reference document on the "Display References" tab shows multiple references for these patents. Then I compared the contents for week 1 of 2012. The csv output for this shows populated fields for references for the patents issued and these matched with the information on the PublicPair portal for a randomly chosen patents.

Can you please execute an iteration with 2019 and 2012 week 1 data and check the reason for the references mismatch between the patentr output and the PublicPair portal.

Thanks!

[NJStudent1]

Hi,

Further to my previous comment, I tried executing the patentr package for multiple weeks from 2012 to 2021. The references field is getting populated only for 2012 and 2013.

Could you please look into this?

Thanks.

[NJStudent1]

Hello,

I executed the retrieval of same year and week's data using patentpy and the references field is populated. Even the ICL_Class and Inventor fields that were coming blank earlier with patentr package are now populated for the same time window.

Please check the issue with the patentr underlying codes.

Thanks.