To advance research on matters relevant to intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and innovation, the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) releases datasets to facilitate economic research on patents and trademarks—an element in the USPTO economics research agenda. OCE offers these data in forms convenient for public use and academic research, consistent with the agency's responsibility to make patent and trademark information open and transparent. Furthermore, OCE data releases support White House policy that champions transparency and access to government data under the Data.gov umbrella of initiatives. Since these data have not been commonly used in the research community, OCE provides supplementary documentation that comprehensively describes the data and presents initial findings.
The following datasets and accompanying documentation are available for download. The bolded date indicates when the page was last updated. It does not correspond to the end date of the dataset.
Updated 08/2024 – The AIPD 2023 update identifies which of the 15.4 million U.S. patent documents (patents and pre-grant publications, or PGPubs) published from 1976 through 2023 contain AI
Updated 07/2024 - Highly flexible API, search and download query builder, bulk download, and visualization interface for exploring and analyzing 40 years of patent data
Updated 04/2024 - Detailed data on trademark assignments and other transactions recorded at the USPTO since 1952
Updated 04/2024 - Detailed data patent assignments and other transactions recorded at the USPTO since 1970
Updated 03/2024 - Detailed patent litigation data on 96,966 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2020
Updated 03/2024 - Detailed information on millions of trademark applications filed with or registrations issued by the USPTO since 1870
Updated 09/2023 - Detailed information on more than 13 million publicly viewable patent applications filed with the USPTO along with more than 1 million PCT applications through June 2023
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These datasets are static and will not be updated in the future.
Legal authority
The release of these data is consistent with the agency's responsibility under 35 USC 2 to disseminate information about patents and trademarks available to the public. Providing research datasets to allow for study of the economics of patents and trademarks is also an element in the USPTO economics research agenda.