Is this the data you were trying to parse?
https://www.cooperativepatentclassification.org/Archive.html
https://www.cooperativepatentclassification.org/Archive.html
IPC can be downloaded from the link below. I needed the Valid Symbol List. Looks like they fixed the encoded JSON that was there when they first put out the new format.
http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en/ITsupport/Version...