Patent File Wrapper (Bulk Datasets) - Weekly

Bibliographic and assignments static patent data compiled into file sets. The Weekly Datasets (10-year increments) can be downloaded in bulk.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessRights Follow these instructions to access the data programmatically via the endpoint link (included in metadata) and create your own API key: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/getting-started
columnDataDict Access column data dictionary at: https://data.uspto.gov/apis/bulk-data/search
creationMethod Learn more about dataset's creation method at: https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/ptfwpre
dataProvenance [{'date': '2001-01-01', 'name': 'Creation and publication of dataset'}, {'date': '2025-12-31', 'name': 'Date of collection of last data point'}, {'date': '2025-07-13', 'name': 'Dataset updated'}]
dataType JSON
datasetPageUrl https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/ptfwpre
datasetVersion v2.0
docsURL https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/ptfwpre
issueDate 2001-01-01
lang English
lastUpdateDate 2025-07-13
pocEmail data@uspto.gov
pocName USPTO Office of Data Management
pocWebsite https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/organizational-offices/office-commissioner-patents/data-management
purpose Learn more about dataset's purpose at: https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/ptfwpre
status submitted
theme ['patent']
timezone EST
updateFreq Weekly on Sunday
uploadType dataset
usageInfo For usage information, refer to the USPTO Terms of Use: https://www.uspto.gov/terms-use-uspto-websites
versionNotes For version details, refer to the USPTO release notes: https://data.uspto.gov/support/release/summary
Groups
  • NSF
  • United States
Tags
  • NSF
  • United States
  • patent
  • patent-file-wrapper
  • research
isopen False
metadata_created 2026-10-30T17:22:03.854017
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T17:22:03.854023
notes Bibliographic and assignments static patent data compiled into file sets. The Weekly Datasets (10-year increments) can be downloaded in bulk.
num_resources 1
num_tags 5
title Patent File Wrapper (Bulk Datasets) - Weekly