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OCE - Patent Litigation Cases API (Version 1)

Data provided by  United States Patent and Trademark Office

Use this API to search Patent Litigation Cases. The Patent Litigation Dataset contains detailed patent litigation data on 74,623 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2015. OCE collected all of the data from the Public Access to Court Electronics Records (PACER) and RECAP, an independent project designed to serve as a repository for litigation data sourced from PACER.

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Updated: 2024-02-22
Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-11
Date Created: N/A
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Dataset Owner: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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Title OCE - Patent Litigation Cases API (Version 1)
Description Use this API to search Patent Litigation Cases. The Patent Litigation Dataset contains detailed patent litigation data on 74,623 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2015. OCE collected all of the data from the Public Access to Court Electronics Records (PACER) and RECAP, an independent project designed to serve as a repository for litigation data sourced from PACER.
Modified 2025-04-11
Publisher Name Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
Contact mailto:[email protected]
Keywords uspto , patent , litigation , cases , office of the chief economist , oce , api 
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