PatentsView is a patent data visualization and analysis platform that increases the value, utility, and transparency of U.S. patent data. The initiative is supported by the Office of the Chief Economist in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
- Latest updates from the PatentsView team
- About PatentsView
- Additional information including past updates and workshops
Updates from the PatentsView team
- PatentsView now includes granted patents and pre-grant publications through March 31, 2025.
- A new gender attribution process is applied to all inventors on granted and pre-grant publications.
- Annualized data files highlighting inventor gender, patents, and assignees were updated through June 2022.
- Read about the PatentsView platform and how patent data, data linkage, and machine learning algorithms used by PatentsView are advancing research and policy formulation.
- Feature on gender and innovationcontains collections of research reports, visualizations of trends and differences by country, and data spotlights on gender and patenting.
- Methods and Sources section contains detailed descriptions of the data disambiguation, gender attribution, government interest, data pipeline, and the patent classes and technologies.
About PatentsView
PatentsView regularly updates a database that links inventor and organizational patenting activity over time and includes documentation that presents all methods and sources. Customized algorithms provide:
- entity resolution of inventors, organizations, and locations across pre-grant and granted patent publications (i.e., linking the same entities across different patent documents)
- gender attribution of inventors; including a Gender and Innovation page that highlights research, data and visualizations, and recent news articles and blogs on women inventors
- statements of government interest on patents and their attributes, like the organizations involved.
PatentsView delivers U.S. patent data that is fully discoverable and exploitable by end users:
- explore annualized data files for inventor gender, patents, and assignees
- highly flexible API serves programmers and application developers
- bulk data download page allows users to work with the entire database in their preferred local environment
- search and download query builder enables users to identify and retrieve particular subsets of the database
- search and visualization interface provides the general public unique ways to interactively explore 40 years of U.S. patent data.
PatentsView uses data derived from USPTO bulk data files. These data are provided for research purposes and do not constitute the official USPTO record. For more insight, read about the PatentsView platform and how patent data, data linkage, and machine learning algorithms used by PatentsView are advancing research and policy formulation.
Additional information
Past updates
- More New Ways to Explore Patent Data - USPTO blog by Director Michelle K. Lee announcing the launch of PatentsView a new search and visualization interface
- Check out how the Cancer Moonshot dataset was used to visualize geographic trends and co-inventor networks in cancer-related innovations
Past workshops
August 2022
Advancing research on inventor demographics
Understanding the demographic makeup of inventors who apply for patents is a critical first step for characterizing who participates in the intellectual property ecosystem and for identifying policies that will expand participation. The USPTO organized a one-day symposium that brought together economists, computer scientists, and others to discuss research methods, applied examples, and new ideas.
Event web site: USPTO Symposium: Advancing research on inventor demographics
March 2021
USPTO Symposium on entity resolution
The symposium brought together computer scientists, information scientists, economists, and others to discuss state-of-the-art approaches to, and current practices and applications of, entity resolution, with a particular focus on patent applications. The goals of the symposium were (1) to provide an overview of current approaches from leading scholars in the field; (2) to build knowledge; (3) to identify a community of practitioners; and (4) to facilitate the application of common approaches.
Event web site: USPTO Symposium on Entity Resolution
October 2017
PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
At the 2017 workshop, USPTO launched the PatentsView Community Site, added export functionality to download data from the visualizations, and added new data fields accessible across the various PatentsView web tools. The 2017 updates were based on feedback gathered from the user community at the 2016 PatentsView workshop. The new Community Site includes a moderated forum for user inquiries and a Data in Action page for sharing analyses, visualizations, and publications.
The goals of the workshop were (1) to launch the new Community Site and Data Visualization features; (2) to present newly parsed and available patent data fields; and (3) to gather feedback from patent data and analytics user communities in order to set priorities for future PatentsView open data products.
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
Web tool: PatentsView Community Site
October 2016
PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
The theme of the 2016 workshop was “New Tools for Open Patent Data.” At the workshop, the USPTO officially launched a new PatentsView data query builder that allows users to easily search and download specific subsets of PatentsView data. Workshop participants joined from numerous federal agencies, including National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and US Census Bureau, as well as from private, nongovernmental, and legal firms. USPTO attendees included members of the Office of the Chief Economist, the patent examiner community, representatives from the Office of the Chief Information Officer, and staff from the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.
Web tool: PatentsView Query Builder
Event web site: PatentsView Workshop on Engaging User Communities
September 2015
PatentsView Disambiguation Workshop
The 2015 workshop sponsored an intensive effort to identify innovative approaches to inventor name disambiguation. Research teams from the United States, Europe, Australia, and China submitted their disambiguation algorithms and results in the run-up to the workshop. Nicholas Monath and Andrew McCallum from the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed the winning algorithm. Their disambiguation algorithm is now integrated into the PatentsView data platform.
Web tool: PatentsView Beta(link is external)
Workshop information: Results