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    • PatentsView PatentSearch API (Version 2.3.0)

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    The PatentsView PatentSearch API is intended to inspire the exploration and enhanced understanding of US intellectual property (IP) and innovation systems. The database driving the API is regularly updated and integrates the best available tools for inventor disambiguation and data quality control. We hope researchers and developers alike will explore the API to discover people and companies and to visualize trends and patterns across the US innovation landscape.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://search.patentsview.org/docs/docs/Search%20API/SearchAPIReference
    https://search.patentsview.org/swagger-ui/
    https://patentsview-support.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

    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 Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
    Maintainer
    Identifier OCE-PATVIEW-API
    Data First Published 2023-02-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-28
    Primary IT Investment UII
    Category uspto, patent, application, visualization, api
    Public Access Level public
    Accesslevelcomment
    Accessurl https://search.patentsview.org/docs/docs/Search%20API/SearchAPIReference
    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://search.patentsview.org/swagger-ui/
    Data Quality True
    Format api
    Harvest Object Id edc5a0e8-3247-4825-86e5-d65488ceb26a
    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    Homepage URL https://patentsview.org/
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    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://search.patentsview.org/docs/docs/Search%20API/SearchAPIReference, https://search.patentsview.org/swagger-ui/, https://patentsview-support.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 329eaff8f0b75a6988adbf6362662e96e82d14b4e442b32da811ea3bd8e1e2ce
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    System of Records
    Temporal 1976-01-06/2025-12-31
    Webservice https://patentsview.org/

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