USPTO · Rate Limits

Uspto Gov Rate Limits

Rate-limit policy for USPTO Open Data Portal (ODP) and Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) APIs. ODP and TSDR use separate API keys.

Uspto Gov Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for USPTO on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Government, and Federal.

2 Limits
PatentsTrademarksIntellectual PropertyGovernmentFederalOpen DataPTABTSDR

Policies

TSDR status endpoints (info.xml, info.json, info.st96.xml) are limited to 60 requests per minute per API key.
TSDR document downloads (PDF bundles, ZIP bundles, mark images) are limited to 4 requests per minute per API key.

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