III.13: Patent Maintenance Fee Events Data

Make patent maintenance fee events data available in machine-readable form for the first time

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During the first quarter of FY2010, USPTO met an expressed public need for data by making available a new machine-readable online product: Patent Maintenance Fee Events, a record of patent maintenance payments, expired patents, and related transactions. Patent maintenance fee information had been previously available only through interactive patent application retrieval from USPTO’s Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) System. This data had been frequently requested by USPTO’s data customers and is the first machine-readable, raw data made available from the Public PAIR system.

Stakeholder(s):

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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