patent-client 0.1.4.post2

A set of ORM-style clients for publicly available intellectual property data

Warning

This project is under active development. Please treat this as a rough draft. NOT PRODUCTION READY.

Overview

A set of Django-ORM-Style accessors to publicly available intellectual property data.

Currently supports:

Office	API	Status
European Patent Office (EPO)	OPS - INPADOC	Partial Support
	OPS - EPO Register	Partial Support
	OPS - Classification	No Support
United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)	Patent - Exam (Pair-Like)	Full Support
	Patent - Assignments	Support Lookup
	PTAB - Trial Documents	Full Support

• Free software: Apache Software License 2.0

Installation

pip install patent_client

If you only want access to USPTO resources, you’re done! However, additional setup is necessary to access EPO Inpadoc and EPO Register resources. See the Docs.

Documentation

Docs, including a fulsome Getting Started are available on Read the Docs.

SUPER QUICK START

To use the project:

>>> from patent_client import Inpadoc, Epo, Assignment, USApplication
# Fetch US Applications
>>> app = USApplication.objects.get('15710770')
>>> app.patent_title
'Camera Assembly with Concave-Shaped Front Face'
# Fetch from USPTO Assignments
>>> assignments = Assignment.objects.filter(assignee='Google')
>>> len(assignments)
23860
>>> assignments[0].id
'47086-788'
>>> assignments[0].conveyance_text
'ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS).'
# Fetch from INPADOC
>>> pub = Inpadoc.objects.get('EP3082535A1')
>>> pub.title
'AUTOMATIC FLUID DISPENSER'
>>> pub.priority_claims
['201314137130', '2014071849']
# Fetch from EPO Register
>>> epo = Epo.objects.get('EP3082535A1')
>>> epo.title
'AUTOMATIC FLUID DISPENSER'
>>> epo.status
[{'description': 'Examination is in progress', 'code': '14', 'date': '20180615'}]

Development

To run the all tests run:

tox

Note, to combine the coverage data from all the tox environments run:

Windows	set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox
Other	PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox

Changelog

0.1.4 (2018-10-24)

• Support for USPTO Applications, Assignments, and PTAB documents

• Support for EPO Inpadoc and EPO Register

• Initial Installation and Getting Started Documentation

0.0.1 (2018-10-15)

• First release on PyPI.

• Support for EPO OPS (except Classification data)