USPTO Datasets

Contains Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) classification information for all Utility patent grants issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1790 to present. It is available as XML with schemas or text monthly (usually by the 15th of the month).

Contains Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) classification information for all Utility patent applications published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from March 15, 2001 to present. It is available as XML with schemas or text monthly (usually by the 15th of the month).

Current U.S. classification information for all patent applications (non-provisional utility and plant) published by the USPTO from March 15, 2001 to present. Approx. 450 main divisions of technology, called classifications/classes, broken into approx. 150,000 subdivisions, called subclassifications/subclasses. Provided in published patent application number sequence with the current U.S. original classification/subclassification and any cross-reference classification/subclassifications with the format of ASCII text.

Contains recorded maintenance fee events for patents granted from September 1, 1981 to present. Each new weekly file (Tuesday) is cumulative with a file format of ASCII.

These documents replace the original data disseminated by the Electronic Information Products Division (EIPD). For more information on the data, contact ipd@uspto.gov (link sends e-mail).

The Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute at issue is 35 USC 154(b)(2)(c), which provides for a deduction from any PTA award "equal to the period of time during which the applicant failed to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude prosecution of the application." The statute also expressly delegates to the USPTO the authority to "prescribe regulations establishing the circumstances that constitute a failure of an applicant to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude processing or examination of an application."

Contains detailed information on 4.4 million Office actions mailed from 2008 through June 2017 for 2.2 million publicly viewable patent applications. The data are sourced from the text of Non-Final Rejection and Final Rejection Office actions issued by patent examiners to applicants during the patent examination process. The data files include information on grounds for rejection raised, the claims in question, and pertinent prior art.

Contains detailed information on claims from U.S. patents granted between January 1976 and December 2014 and U.S. patent applications published between March 15, 2001 and December 2014. The dataset is derived from the Patent Grant Full Text and Patent Application Full Text bulk data files. The Office of Chief Economist (OCE) applied a Python algorithm to identify individual claims as well as the dependency relationship between claims. From the parsed claims text, OCE created six data files containing individually-parsed claims, claim-level statistics, and document-level statistics, including newly-developed measures of patent scope.

This curated dataset consists of 269,353 patent documents (published patent applications and granted patents) spanning the 1976 to 2016 period and is intended to help identify promising R&D on the horizon in diagnostics, therapeutics, data analytics, and model biological systems.

The historical_masterfile contains micro-level application, NBER sub-category, and prosecution data on 2.2 million patent applications filed from 1981 to 2015 and 8.9 million patents issued through 2014.