USPTO Database
Use this skill when a task needs official United States patent or trademark records from USPTO systems.
When to Use
- Searching granted patents or pre-grant publications.
- Checking patent application status, file-wrapper data, assignments, or public prosecution history.
- Looking up trademark status, documents, or assignment history.
- Building reproducible prior-art, portfolio, or IP landscape research logs.
- Comparing USPTO records with secondary tools such as Google Patents, Lens.org, Semantic Scholar, or company patent pages.
Do not use this skill to give legal advice. Treat it as a data-gathering and record-verification workflow.
Source Selection
Prefer official USPTO or USPTO-supported surfaces first:
- Open Data Portal (ODP): current home for migrated USPTO datasets and APIs.
- Patent File Wrapper: public patent application bibliographic data and file wrapper records.
- PatentSearch API: PatentsView search API for granted patents and pre-grant publication datasets.
- TSDR Data API: trademark status and document retrieval.
- Patent and Trademark Assignment Search: ownership transfer records.
- PTAB data in ODP: Patent Trial and Appeal B…
