The text service is used to retrieve XML data from the CLAIMS Direct Data Warehouse. There is a limit of 100 documents per batch.

/text/fetch

Method(s)	GET \| POST

Method(s)	GET \| POST
Path	/text/fetch
	Parameter	Values	Description
	@ucid	String: ex. US-20100077592-A1[,US-5551212-A,...]	Document identifier

Note on POST method

Input Format	Example

Input Format	Example
single ucid	US-5551212-A
comma-delimited	US-5551212-A,EP-0700000-A2
space-delimited	US-5551212-A EP-0700000-A2
new-line-delimited	US-5551212-A EP-0700000-A2

Example:

wget -O- \
  --header 'x-user:x' \
  --header 'x-password:y' \
'https://cdws21.ificlaims.com/text/fetch?ucid=US-20100077592-A1'

Response

The request content-type is irrelevant with regard to response format. CLAIMS Direct XML is returned. The text service does not support JSON because it cannot support the rich document structure available via the XML. If you want to retrieve JSON, we recommend using the search service.

<patent-documents>
    <patent-document />
    <patent-document />
</patent-documents>

For a detailed treatment of the content of a patent-document, please refer to the CLAIMS Direct DTD, Data Warehouse Design, and XML Content Description.

Text

/text/fetch