patent-client 0.1.5

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:

pytest

A developer guide is provided in the Documentation. This project is narrowly scoped to only public documented API’s available without charge (at least for moderate usage). Scrapers of HTML websites are not permitted. But PR’s to add support for new API’s are more than welcome.

Pull requests welcome!

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)