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Uspto Search Patent Applications Example

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Uspto Search Patent Applications Example is an example object payload from US Patent and Trademark Office, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.uspto.gov/api/v1/patent/applications/search",
    "headers": {
      "X-API-KEY": "YOUR_ODP_API_KEY",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "q": "applicationMetaData.applicationTypeLabelName:Utility AND inventors.inventorNameText:Smith",
      "dateRangeData": {
        "startDate": "2023-01-01",
        "endDate": "2024-12-31",
        "fieldName": "applicationFilingDate"
      },
      "start": 0,
      "rows": 10
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "count": 2,
      "patents": [
        {
          "applicationNumberText": "18123456",
          "applicationTypeLabelName": "Utility",
          "applicationStatusCode": "161",
          "applicationFilingDate": "2023-03-15",
          "inventionTitle": "Method and System for Distributed Computing",
          "inventors": [
            {
              "inventorNameText": "Smith, John A.",
              "inventorCity": "San Jose",
              "inventorStateCode": "CA",
              "inventorCountryCode": "US"
            }
          ],
          "applicants": [
            {
              "applicantNameText": "Acme Technology Corporation",
              "applicantCity": "Palo Alto",
              "applicantStateCode": "CA",
              "applicantCountryCode": "US"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "applicationNumberText": "18234567",
          "applicationTypeLabelName": "Utility",
          "applicationStatusCode": "250",
          "applicationFilingDate": "2023-06-20",
          "patentNumber": "12345678",
          "grantDate": "2024-08-10",
          "inventionTitle": "Neural Network Training Optimization",
          "inventors": [
            {
              "inventorNameText": "Smith, Jane B.",
              "inventorCity": "Austin",
              "inventorStateCode": "TX",
              "inventorCountryCode": "US"
            }
          ],
          "applicants": [
            {
              "applicantNameText": "University of Texas",
              "applicantCity": "Austin",
              "applicantStateCode": "TX",
              "applicantCountryCode": "US"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "requestIdentifier": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890"
    }
  }
}