To advance research on matters relevant to intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and innovation, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) releases datasets to facilitate research on patents and trademarks. The USPTO 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. To support greater use of these data by the research community, USPTO 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 05/2026 - Highly flexible API, search and download query builder, bulk download, and visualization interface for exploring and analyzing 40 years of patent data
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 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.
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