The Office Action Retrieval API provides access to the full-text information of Office Actions (bundled as a JSON file in downloadable weekly zip files) issued by patent examiners to applicants during the patent examination process. The Office Action is a written notification to the applicant of the examiners decision on patentability. It generally discloses the reasons for any rejections, objections, or requirements and includes relevant information or references that the applicant may find useful for responding to the examiner and deciding whether to continue prosecuting the application.

Contains the bibliographic text (front page) of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data.

Contains the full text of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data with Embedded TIFF Images.

Contains the full text, images/drawings, and complex work units (tables, mathematical expressions, chemical structures, and genetic sequence data) of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present.

Use this API to retrieve patent assignment information from the USPTO assignment search database and generate XML files with the search results. An XML file with search results contains a list of found documents and their categorization. For API, please use Chrome or Safari browser.

Contains daily (front file - Calendar Year 2022) and annual (backfile - August 1980 - December 31, 2021) patent assignment text (no drawings/images) derived from patent assignment recordations made at the USPTO.

Patent Examination Data System lets customers retrieve and download multiple records of USPTO patent application or patent filing status at no cost. PEDS contains the bibliographic, published document and patent term extension data tabs in Public PAIR from 1981 to present. There is also some data dating back to 1935. Customers can download the entire dataset containing the data for all indexed documents. There are over 13 million records in PEDS. The data can be accessed by anyone using the web interface or the provided Application Programming Interface (API).

Use this API to search the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) Patent Examination Event Codes Dataset 2015. The Event Codes dataset includes short descriptions of the event codes used in the transactions dataset. The descriptions can be linked to transactions using the event_code variable. There are 1,873 unique event codes represented in this data file.

Use this API to search Patent Examination Status Codes Dataset 2015. The Status Codes dataset includes descriptions of the status codes used to populate the appl_status_code variable in the application dataset. The descriptions can be linked to application data using this variable. There are 225 unique application status codes represented in this file. See Table A-3 in documentation for a list and brief description of the two variables included in this dataset.

Contains the bibliographic text (front page) of each patent grant issued weekly (Tuesdays) from January 6, 1976 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Grant Full Text Data.