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    • OCE - Patent Litigation Cases API (Version 1)

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    Use this API to search Patent Litigation Cases. The Patent Litigation Dataset contains detailed patent litigation data on 74,623 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2015. OCE collected all of the data from the Public Access to Court Electronics Records (PACER) and RECAP, an independent project designed to serve as a repository for litigation data sourced from PACER.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://developer.uspto.gov/ds-api-docs/index.html?url=https%3A//developer.uspto.gov/ds-api/swagger/docs/oce_patent_litigation_cases.json

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
    Maintainer
    Identifier OCE-PLC-API
    Data First Published 2018-02-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    Primary IT Investment UII
    Category uspto, patent, litigation, cases, api
    Public Access Level public
    Accesslevelcomment
    Accessurl https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/oce-patent-litigation-cases
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 006:51
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Datadictionary https://developer.uspto.gov/ds-api-docs/index.html?url=https%3A//developer.uspto.gov/ds-api/swagger/docs/oce_patent_litigation_cases.json
    Data Quality True
    Format api
    Harvest Object Id 40a8b9b8-7d27-4a25-9860-8358628ad89b
    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
    Mbox EconomicsData@uspto.gov
    Old Spatial
    Program Code 006:070
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Federal Government > Department of Commerce (DOC) > U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) > Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
    Related Documents https://developer.uspto.gov/ds-api-docs/index.html?url=https%3A//developer.uspto.gov/ds-api/swagger/docs/oce_patent_litigation_cases.json
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 66bf0863073fc15afd4e4b72ee16eb3e29d71922301f380e94a4a3ffda25bb7c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    System of Records
    Temporal 1963-01-01/2015-12-31
    Webservice https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/oce-patent-litigation-cases

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