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June 3, 2010 - Google and the USPTO announced the availability of bulk patent and trademark data just after the WPO announced its free program called WIPO Gold Service.  A characteristically plain Google page proclaims:
 "Google and the USPTO have entered into an agreement to make the following USPTO products available to the public at no charge:
Patents (grants, applications, assignments, classification information, and maintenance fee events)
Trademarks (grants, applications, assignments, and TTAB proceedings)
All data originated from the USPTO. Google is hosting this data unchanged, except for repackaging into zip files." Google's bulk download patent page links these offerings:
"Grant images - Grant full text - Grant bibliographic data - Published applications - Assignments - Maintenance fee events - USPTO Red Book - Classification information " AmiCOUR's TsquaredP workspace includes links to the new services and worldwide IP data.  Read comments.