OCE - Patent Litigation Cases API (Version 1)

Use this API to search Patent Litigation Cases. The Patent Litigation Dataset contains detailed patent litigation data on 74,623 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2015. OCE collected all of the data from the Public Access to Court Electronics Records (PACER) and RECAP, an independent project designed to serve as a repository for litigation data sourced from PACER.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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accessLevelComment
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format api
identifier OCE-PLC-API
issued 2018-02-26
landingPage https://developer.uspto.gov/api-catalog
language {en-US}
license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
mbox IPD@uspto.gov
modified 2021-12-10
programCode {006:070}
publisher Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
publisher_hierarchy U.S. Federal Government > Department of Commerce (DOC) > U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) > Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
references {https://developer.uspto.gov/ds-api-docs/index.html?url=https%3A//developer.uspto.gov/ds-api/swagger/docs/oce_patent_litigation_cases.json}
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systemOfRecords
temporal 1963-01-01/2015-12-31
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Groups
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  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
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  • amerigeoss
  • api
  • cases
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • litigation
  • national
  • north-america
  • oce
  • office-of-the-chief-economist
  • patent
  • united-states
  • uspto
isopen False
license_id other-license-specified
license_title other-license-specified
maintainer Nicholas Pairolero
maintainer_email Nicholas.Pairolero@uspto.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T07:23:50.472087
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T07:23:50.472092
notes Use this API to search Patent Litigation Cases. The Patent Litigation Dataset contains detailed patent litigation data on 74,623 unique district court cases filed during the period 1963-2015. OCE collected all of the data from the Public Access to Court Electronics Records (PACER) and RECAP, an independent project designed to serve as a repository for litigation data sourced from PACER.
num_resources 1
num_tags 15
title OCE - Patent Litigation Cases API (Version 1)