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      Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/APS - Text Only Retrospective 09/1996 to 12/2000
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      Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML - Text Only Retrospective 2002
      Patent Grant Bibliographic Data/XML - Text Only 2003

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