Contains detailed U.S. District Courts patent litigation data on 74,623 unique court cases filed during the period 1963 - 2016. The data was collected from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and RECAP as sources for all of the content.

Contains recorded maintenance fee events for patents granted from September 1, 1981 to present. Each new weekly file is cumulative.

Contains bibliographic (front page) information, a representative claim, and a drawing (if applicable) of each patent grant issued that week. Includes U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Notices which provide important information and changes in rules concerning both patents and trademarks.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) API is a RESTful API with an easy to use search interface. You can easily browse USPTO PTAB public documents, search for specific content, and request a bulk download of PTAB content. The PTAB API synchronizes close to real time with the PTAB E2E (End-to-End) system making the latest public America Invents Action (AIA) Trial information and documents available. PTAB API v2 has text search capabilities for decision documents.

This tab-delimited file, assignees2015_5yr.txt, prepared from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Technology Assessment and Forecast (TAF) database, displays a listing of organizations receiving the most utility patents (i.e., patents for invention) during the indicated 5 year time 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.

This tab-delimited file, assignees2014_5yr.tsv, prepared from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Technology Assessment and Forecast (TAF) database, displays a listing of organizations receiving the most utility patents (i.e., patents for invention) during the indicated 5 year time 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.

This tab-delimited file, stc2015_5yr.txt, 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.

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 display/download of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) (formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI)) Precedential Decisions (PDF sorted alphabetically or by topic); offers display/download of PTAB Informative Decisions (PDF sorted alphabetically or by topic); and also offers search, display, and download of Board Decisions, Proceedings, or Documents.