This tab-delimited file, stc2015_5yr.tsv, prepared from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Technology Assessment and Forecast (TAF) database, displays a listing of geographic regions from which utility patents (i.e., patents for invention) originated during the indicated 5 year time period and a corresponding count of patents for each of the years of the period. Each displayed annual count corresponds to the count of patents received in a calendar year (January 1 to December 31). It will import into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

The PatentsView API is intended to inspire the exploration and enhanced understanding of US intellectual property (IP) and innovation systems. The database driving the API is regularly updated and integrates the best available tools for inventor disambiguation and data quality control. We hope researchers and developers alike will explore the API to discover people and companies and to visualize trends and patterns across the US innovation landscape.

Offers exclusive access to patent application status information for unpublished patent applications only to the applicant/inventor or his/her representative(s).

Assignment (ownership) text data (no images).

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) text data (no images).

Contains detailed information on 7.0 million trademark applications filed with or registrations issued by the USPTO between 1870 and 2020.

Contains detailed information on 786,931 assignments and other transactions recorded at the USPTO between 1952 and 2020 and involving 1,491,485 million unique trademark properties.