US Patent and Trademark Office

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is responsible for granting patents and registering trademarks to protect intellectual property in the United States. The USPTO examines patent applications to determine if an invention is new, non-obvious, and useful, and grants patents to those that meet the criteria. They also register trademarks, which are words, phrases, symbols, or designs that distinguish goods or services of one entity from another. The USPTO Open Data Portal provides free programmatic access to patent applications, PTAB trial proceedings, petition decisions, trademark status, and bulk datasets.

US Patent and Trademark Office publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bulk Datasets API, Case Documents API, Case Status API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property, and Open Data.

The US Patent and Trademark Office catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

US Patent and Trademark Office’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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27.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 published contracts

Federal Government Patents Trademarks Intellectual Property Open Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 27.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 51.0 — up to +12.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

US Patent and Trademark Office Bulk Datasets API

Access bulk raw public data from the Chief Economist office

US Patent and Trademark Office Case Documents API

Retrieve trademark case documents and images

US Patent and Trademark Office Case Status API

Retrieve trademark case status and metadata

US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Search API

Search and retrieve patent application data

US Patent and Trademark Office Petition Decisions API

Search and retrieve petition decision records

US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Appeals API

All public decisions filed in PTAB Appeals

US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Interferences API

All public decisions filed in PTAB Interferences

US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Decisions API

All public decisions filed in PTAB Trials

US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Documents API

All public documents filed in PTAB Trials

US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Proceedings API

All public PTAB Trial proceedings

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Open Collections 12

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets Case Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets Case Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets Patent Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets Petition Decisions API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets PTAB Appeals API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets PTAB Interferences API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets PTAB Trials Decisions API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets PTAB Trials Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal Bulk Datasets PTAB Trials Proceedings API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Open Data Portal API

OPEN COLLECTION

USPTO Trademark Status and Document Retrieval API

OPEN COLLECTION

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US Patent and Trademark Office API pricing

Not yet checked against US Patent and Trademark Office's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against US Patent and Trademark Office's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

US Patent and Trademark Office

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Context

3 classes · 21 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

US Patent and Trademark Office — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

US Patent and Trademark Office — uspto rules

8 rules · 2 errors 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

USPTO Patent Application

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

USPTO Trademark Case

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Uspto Patent Application Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Uspto Get Ptab Proceeding Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Uspto Get Trademark Case Status Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Uspto Search Patent Applications Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Us Patent And Trademark Office Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Us Patent And Trademark Office Agentic Access

41 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/us-patent-and-trademark-office/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/us-patent-and-trademark-office-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/us-patent-and-trademark-office-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/us-patent-and-trademark-office-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/us-patent-and-trademark-office-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/us-patent-and-trademark-office-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/us-patent-and-trademark-office-authentication.yml
- url: https://www.uspto.gov/rss.xml
  type: Blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/USPTO
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uspto
apis:
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-bulk-datasets-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office Bulk Datasets API
  description: Access bulk raw public data from the Chief Economist office
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - Bulk Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-bulk-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-case-documents-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office Case Documents API
  description: Retrieve trademark case documents and images
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - Case Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-case-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-case-status-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office Case Status API
  description: Retrieve trademark case status and metadata
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - Case Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-case-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-patent-search-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Search API
  description: Search and retrieve patent application data
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - Patent Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-patent-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-petition-decisions-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office Petition Decisions API
  description: Search and retrieve petition decision records
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - Petition Decisions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-petition-decisions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-appeals-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Appeals API
  description: All public decisions filed in PTAB Appeals
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - PTAB Appeals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-appeals-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-interferences-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Interferences API
  description: All public decisions filed in PTAB Interferences
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - PTAB Interferences
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-interferences-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-decisions-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Decisions API
  description: All public decisions filed in PTAB Trials
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - PTAB Trials Decisions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-decisions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-documents-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Documents API
  description: All public documents filed in PTAB Trials
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - PTAB Trials Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
- aid: us-patent-and-trademark-office:us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-proceedings-api
  name: US Patent and Trademark Office PTAB Trials Proceedings API
  description: All public PTAB Trial proceedings
  humanURL: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  tags:
  - PTAB Trials Proceedings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/us-patent-and-trademark-office-ptab-trials-proceedings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog/tsdr-data-api
name: US Patent and Trademark Office
tags:
- Federal Government
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Intellectual Property
- Open Data
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Intellectual Property
- Open Data
- Federal-Government
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/us-patent-and-trademark-office.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is responsible for granting patents and registering trademarks to
  protect intellectual property in the United States. The USPTO examines patent applications to determine if an invention
  is new, non-obvious, and useful, and grants patents to those that meet the criteria. They also register trademarks, which
  are words, phrases, symbols, or designs that distinguish goods or services of one entity from another. The USPTO Open Data
  Portal provides free programmatic access to patent applications, PTAB trial proceedings, petition decisions, trademark status,
  and bulk datasets.
features:
- Patent Application Search
- Patent File Wrapper Access
- PTAB Trial Proceedings Search
- Petition Decision Search
- Trademark Status Retrieval
- Trademark Document Retrieval
- Bulk Dataset Downloads
useCases:
- Patent research and prior art searches
- Trademark availability checking
- PTAB trial monitoring
- IP portfolio management
- Legal and compliance research
- Academic and economic research
integrations:
- data.gov
- api.data.gov
solutions:
- Intellectual Property Management
- Patent Search and Analytics
- Trademark Monitoring
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

US Patent and Trademark Office API — frequently asked questions

Does US Patent and Trademark Office have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from US Patent and Trademark Office, including US Patent and Trademark Office Bulk Datasets API, US Patent and Trademark Office Case Documents API and US Patent and Trademark Office Case Status API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the US Patent and Trademark Office API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for US Patent and Trademark Office, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the US Patent and Trademark Office API?

US Patent and Trademark Office uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Us Patent And Trademark Office Authentication.

How much does the US Patent and Trademark Office API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for US Patent and Trademark Office, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the US Patent and Trademark Office API ready for AI agents?

US Patent and Trademark Office has a Kin Score of 27.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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