Patent Litigation Docket Report Data Files for...
URL: https://api.uspto.gov/api/v1/datasets/products/ptlitig
Contains detailed U.S. District Courts patent litigation data on 81,350 unique court cases filed during the period 1963 - 2020. The data was collected from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and RECAP as sources for all of the content. The final output datasets, provided in five different files, include information on the litigating parties involved and their attorneys; the cause of action; the court location; important dates in the litigation history; and, covering over 5 million document level information from the docket reports, descriptions of all documents submitted in a given case.
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | July 14, 2025 |
| Metadata last updated | July 14, 2025 |
| Created | July 14, 2025 |
| Format | text/csv |
| License | No License Provided |
| Accesscontrolrights | For access control rights, refer to the USPTO Terms of Use: https://www.uspto.gov/terms-use-uspto-websites |
| Datastore active | False |
| Docsurl | https://data.uspto.gov/bulkdata/datasets/ptlitig |
| Endpointdesc | To access this dataset, use the provided endpoint URL. It returns a JSON object containing download links for bulk data files (e.g., .zip). Files must be downloaded using redirect-friendly methods (e.g., 'curl -L' or Python's 'requests.get(..., allow_redirects=True))'. For full details on how to construct download URLs, handle redirects, and programmatically access and retrieve files, refer to the Bulk Data Directory section of the USPTO FAQ: https://data.uspto.gov/support/faq |
| Endpointname | Bulk Data API |
| Has views | False |
| Id | 7478de3b-7155-4612-a73a-9dc0c0b0a630 |
| Issuedate | 2016-12-29 |
| Lastupdatedate | 2025-07-14 |
| Mimetype | text/csv |
| Package id | 159fb64a-0da7-4acb-af2e-317d6ab87766 |
| Position | 0 |
| Resdatadict | Access data dictionary via API endpoint: https://api.uspto.gov/api/v1/datasets/products/ptlitig |
| Ressize | 4.9 GB |
| State | active |
| Status | deprecated |
| Urltype | api-endpoint |