Research Guides: Patents and Trademarks: IP Research

Looking to conduct current or historical IP research? This page contains some resources to help you discover data and more!

USPTO Resources

USPTO Developer - offers access to data and more:
- Datasets: find data including applications and historical patent data
- APIs: includes office actions, PTAB and more
- Visualizations: USPTO developed and interactive covering many different data stories in IP
  (Be sure to also check out all the options under the "Analytics" menu from the main developer page too!)
Patent Assignment Search - can look up patents from 1980 to the present to find those owned by a specific entity
Publication Site for Issued and Published Sequences (PSIPS) - biological sequence data, also see the Sequence Listing Resource Center for further information

Recent Patents Analysis & Data

These databases are very information-rich, plus offer bulk downloads and have built-in visualizations. Make sure to create an account* if you plan to download data and save searches. If you would like an overview, please do reach out for help!

*Note: Non-Virginia Tech affiliates can create a free account with Dimensions, but must be on one of our computers in order to access patent data. Make sure to use the link below to ensure access while using.

Dimensions Plus
Dimensions Plus indexes more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings. Dimensions Plus is an extensive and fully interlinked database with publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets and policy documents. 1600s to present.
Lens.org
Searches patent and scholarly publication data, with over 100 million patent records across 95 jurisdictions world-wide, and over 200 million scholarly records from PubMed, Crossref, and more. Many filtering and search options with advanced boolean functions, structured searches, classification searches and more. Lens.org also includes options for searching biological sequences included in patents.

(There are no comparable trademark databases for this purpose currently - even USPTO's newest Trademark Search system can only do 100 records at once and WIPO only the first 180, although it does have some visualizations built-in.)