Overview
A set of Django-ORM-Style accessors to publicly available intellectual property data.
Currently supports:
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
- Patent Full Text Databases - Full Support
- Patent Examination Data - Full Support (Including File History Documents!)
- Patent Assignment Data - Lookup Support
- Patent Trial & Appeal Board API v2 - Supports Proceedings, Decisions, and Documents
- United States International Trade Commission
- Electronic Document Information System (EDIS) API - Partial Support (no document downloads)
- European Patent Office - Open Patent Services
- Inpadoc - Full Support
- EPO Register - No Support (in progress)
- Classification - No Support
- Free software: Apache Software License 2.0
Installation
pip install patent_client
If you only want access to USPTO resources, you're done! However, additional setup is necessary to access EPO Inpadoc and EPO Register resources. See the Docs.
Documentation
The easiest way to get started is with Patent Client Examples. The examples repository has a list of Jupyter notebooks showing application examples of the patent_client library.
Docs, including a fulsome Getting Started are available on Read the Docs.
SUPER QUICK START
To use the project:
# Import the model classes you need
>>> from patent_client import Inpadoc, Assignment, USApplication, Patent
# Fetch US Patents with the word "tennis" in their title issued in 2010
>>> pats = Patent.objects.filter(title="tennis", issue_date="2010-01-01->2010-12-31")
>>> len(pats) > 10
True
# Look at the first one
>>> pats[0].publication
Patent(publication_number=7841958, publication_date=2010-11-30, title=Modular table tennis game)
# Fetch US Applications
>>> app = USApplication.objects.get('15710770')
>>> app.patent_title
'Camera Assembly with Concave-Shaped Front Face'
# Fetch from USPTO Assignments
>>> assignments = Assignment.objects.filter(assignee='Google')
>>> len(assignments) > 23000
True
>>> assignment = Assignment.objects.get('47086-788')
>>> assignment.conveyance_text
'ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST'
# Fetch from INPADOC
>>> pub = Inpadoc.objects.get('EP3082535A1')
>>> pub.biblio.title
'AUTOMATIC FLUID DISPENSER'
# Fetch from EPO Register (NOTE: This is broken right now :( )
#>>> epo = Epo.objects.get('EP3082535A1')
#>>> epo.title
#'AUTOMATIC FLUID DISPENSER'
#>>> epo.status
#[{'description': 'Examination is in progress', 'code': '14', 'date': '20180615'}]Other Languages
Merely as a way to explore other languages and technologies, I have built a few (partial) ports of this library to other languages:
- patent_client_js - ES6 Javascript (PEDS / PTAB / Assignments support (ASYNC!))
- patent_client_java - Java (Ptab API only)
- patent_client_scala - Scala (Ptab API only)
- patent_client_ruby - Ruby (Nothing Works Yet)
Development
To run the all tests run:
pytest
A developer guide is provided in the Documentation. Pull requests welcome!