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    • Office Action Weekly Zips API (Version 1)

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    The Office Action Retrieval API provides access to the full-text information of Office Actions (bundled as a JSON file in downloadable weekly zip files) issued by patent examiners to applicants during the patent examination process. The Office Action is a written notification to the applicant of the examiners decision on patentability. It generally discloses the reasons for any rejections, objections, or requirements and includes relevant information or references that the applicant may find useful for responding to the examiner and deciding whether to continue prosecuting the application. This api refreshes daily and contains publicly available Office Actions starting with 12 series applications. Please note that if you are not able to access the downloadable zips using the URL https://developer-hub, then please use the https://developer-hub.s3.amazonaws.com. For example, if the archiveFileName is bdr_oa_bulkdata_weekly_2020-11-22.zip, you can download the zip file using the URL https://developer-hub.s3.amazonaws.com/bdr-oa-bulkdata/weekly/bdr_oa_bulkdata_weekly_2020-11-22.zip. The base URL https://developer-hub.s3.amazonaws.com/bdr-oa-bulkdata/weekly/ is common for all the OA weekly zips.

    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/ibd-api/#!/bulkdata/searchWeeklyArchiveData

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1W

    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 Open Data Portal Team
    Maintainer
    Identifier ODP-OA-API
    Data First Published 2020-06-25
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    Primary IT Investment UII
    Category uspto, office action, patentability, rejections, objections, references, full-text, json, api
    Public Access Level public
    Accesslevelcomment
    Accessurl https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/uspto-office-action-weekly-zips-api
    Data Update Frequency R/P1W
    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/ibd-api/#!/bulkdata/searchWeeklyArchiveData
    Data Quality True
    Format api
    Harvest Object Id bb77961a-e000-45bb-8e69-d86c6100b36e
    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 data@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) > Open Data Portal Team
    Related Documents https://developer.uspto.gov/ibd-api/#!/bulkdata/searchWeeklyArchiveData
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4e8bdb226c58dbb2e9b8d256cd6566a0a941cd141b4a320232ddd37f1eb73232
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    System of Records
    Temporal 2007-12-06/2025-12-31
    Webservice https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/uspto-office-action-weekly-zips-api

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