Initiative #5: Patents on Google

Team with Google to Provide Bulk Patent and Trademark Data Available to Public “Patents on Google”

Other Information:

Overview: The USPTO is teaming with Google to provide bulk patent and trademark data available to public. The USPTO has entered into a no-cost, two-year agreement with Google to make bulk electronic patent and trademark public data available to the public in bulk form. Under this agreement, the USPTO is providing Google with existing bulk, electronic files, which Google will host without modification for the public free of charge. This bulk data can be accessed at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html. This arrangement is to serve until the USPTO can bring this capability in-house. Until now, the USPTO’s public data in bulk form has been provided solely as a fee-based service. Challenges: The USPTO does not currently have the technical capability to provide this public information in a bulk machine readable format that is desired by the intellectual property (IP) community. The USPTO estimates that nearly ten terabytes information will be made available. Featured Actions: The USPTO and Google will be working together to make additional data available in the future, including patent and trademark file histories and related data.

Stakeholder(s):

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office


• Google


• IP Community: Key Customer Groups: IP community and the general public.


• General Public

Objective(s):

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