# US Patent and Trademark Office

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/us-patent-and-trademark-office/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 30.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 57.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Us Patent And Trademark Office Agentic Access** — 41 operations · 8 acting

## Security (2)

- **Us Patent And Trademark Office Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Us Patent And Trademark Office Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Us Patent And Trademark Office Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/us-patent-and-trademark-office/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.