USPTO Trademark Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

USPTO's modern trademark search (tmsearch.uspto.gov) is a JS-rendered single-page app, and the official TSDR JSON API now gates bulk access behind a registered API key. This Actor wraps USPTO's trademark search index and TSDR case-status pages directly, so you get a structured row per mark without wrestling either surface yourself.

Give it a free-text query (mark text or owner name), a list of serial numbers, or a list of registration numbers — or mix all three in one run. Every request runs through our hardened HTTP stack and a paced, retrying client so your runs stay clean even when USPTO throttles.

🔥 Features

• 🌐 Optional residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP whenever a lookup gets rate-limited.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 429 / 503 and network errors — up to 5 attempts, honouring Retry-After headers.
• 🧱 Paced TSDR requests — direct lookups are throttled to roughly one request per second so we never trip USPTO's rate limits.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — validated fields, ISO-8601 dates, stable serial numbers as IDs.
• 💰 Pay per output — no Actor start fee. You pay for the output events listed in Pricing.

💡 Use cases

• Brand-protection monitoring — schedule recurring runs against your own mark portfolio to catch status changes (Section 8/15 declarations, oppositions, cancellations) as USPTO posts them.
• Trademark-watch services — track a competitor's or client's marks by owner name across renewal cycles without manual TSDR lookups.
• Clearance research — pull existing registrations in a Nice class before filing a new application.
• M&A / brand-portfolio diligence — quantify a target company's live trademark holdings by owner name in minutes.
• IP attorney workflows — bulk-resolve a docket of serial or registration numbers into structured case-status rows for internal tracking systems.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — supply at least one of query, serialNumbers, or registrationNumbers. All three can run together in a single call.
3. Click Start. Results stream into the run's dataset as each lookup resolves.
4. When the run finishes, open Storage → Dataset to export as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull rows via the Apify API.

Input mode tips:

• serialNumbers and registrationNumbers — always processed in full, ignoring maxResults.
• query — searched against mark text and owner name, capped at maxResults.
• statusFilter — set to live or dead to post-filter by parsed status text.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
query	string	no*	—	Free-text mark text or owner name to search, 1-200 chars.
serialNumbers	array	no*	—	Direct lookup by USPTO serial number(s), 8 digits each.
registrationNumbers	array	no*	—	Direct lookup by USPTO registration number(s), 1-8 digits each.
statusFilter	string	no	any	any, live, or dead — post-filter on parsed status text.
maxResults	integer	no	20	Cap on rows returned for query mode only. Max 500.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Apify Proxy configuration. USPTO tolerates direct calls at a light pace.

* At least one of query, serialNumbers, registrationNumbers is required.

Example input

{
  "query": "BLINKING NAILS",
  "serialNumbers": ["88148890"],
  "registrationNumbers": ["5912174"],
  "statusFilter": "any",
  "maxResults": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
serial_number	string	US Serial Number.
registration_number	string | null	US Registration Number.
mark_text	string	Mark / Mark Literal Elements.
mark_type	string | null	Mark Type.
standard_character_claim	boolean | null	Standard Character Claim (Yes/No).
description_of_mark	string | null	Description of Mark, including Disclaimer text when present.
status	string | null	Status (free text).
status_date	string | null	Status Date, ISO-8601.
filing_date	string | null	Application Filing Date, ISO-8601.
registration_date	string | null	Registration Date, ISO-8601.
publication_date	string | null	Publication Date, ISO-8601.
register	string | null	Principal / Supplemental.
international_classes	array	International Class(es), zero-padded.
goods_services	string | null	For: field — goods & services description.
first_use_date	string | null	First Use, ISO-8601.
use_in_commerce_date	string | null	Use in Commerce, ISO-8601.
filing_basis	array	Derived from Filed Use/ITU/44D/44E/66A flags.
owner_name	string | null	Owner Name.
owner_address	string | null	Owner Address.
attorney_name	string | null	Attorney Name.
tsdr_url	string	TSDR case-status URL for this serial number.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "serial_number": "88148890",
  "registration_number": "5912174",
  "mark_text": "BLINKING NAILS",
  "mark_type": "Trademark",
  "standard_character_claim": false,
  "description_of_mark": "The mark consists of the stylized wording \"BLINKINGNAILS\" with a butterfly design appearing above the second letter \"I\". Disclaimer: \"NAILS\"",
  "status": "A Section 8 declaration has been accepted.",
  "status_date": "2025-09-26",
  "filing_date": "2018-10-09",
  "registration_date": "2019-11-19",
  "publication_date": "2019-09-03",
  "register": "Principal",
  "international_classes": ["008"],
  "goods_services": "Fingernail polishers, electric or non-electric; Hair-removing tweezers; Nail files, electric; Cuticle nippers; Cuticle tweezers; Electric nail clippers; Electric pedicure sets; Emery boards; Manicure sets; Pedicure sets.",
  "first_use_date": "2017-01-22",
  "use_in_commerce_date": "2017-01-22",
  "filing_basis": ["USE_IN_COMMERCE"],
  "owner_name": "Zhongshan R & F Heavy Makeup Cosmetics Limited Company",
  "owner_address": "Garden, No.36 Rihua Rd, Southern Dist, No.9-189, Tianhuixingyuan, Xinghuiyunjin, Zhongshan, Guangdong, 528455, CHINA",
  "attorney_name": null,
  "tsdr_url": "https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88148890&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T10:12:26+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

No Actor start fee. You pay for the output events below.

Event	USD per event	Billing unit
result	$0.005	Charged for each trademark row written to the dataset.

1,000 output events cost $5.00 at the standard rate, with no start charge.

Existing subscriber discounts remain available in the Apify Pricing tab.

🚧 Limitations

• Search ranking is controlled by USPTO's trademark search index internally — the order for query mode is theirs.
• status_date is null for query-mode rows. USPTO's search index doesn't expose a discrete "status changed on" date for free-text hits; direct serialNumbers/registrationNumbers lookups always carry a real value when the source page has one.
• TTAB opposition/cancellation proceeding documents are out of scope — that's a distinct data surface.
• Full prosecution-history documents (office actions, specimens, drawings/images) and assignment / chain-of-title history are not included in v1.
• International/Madrid Protocol or EUIPO marks are out of scope — US federal (USPTO) marks only.
• Legal disclaimer — this tool retrieves public trademark metadata for research and monitoring purposes. It is not a substitute for professional trademark counsel. Always consult a registered trademark attorney for clearance opinions, opposition strategy, or litigation.

🔗 Use with n8n

Wire this Actor into your n8n automations with the official Apify node:

1. Add the Apify node and pick the Run Actor operation.
2. Set the Actor to devilscrapes/uspto-trademark-scraper and pass your input as JSON.
3. Chain a Get Dataset Items step to read the structured rows into the rest of your workflow (Sheets, Slack, your CRM, an AI agent, …).

Because n8n runs on a schedule or trigger, you get fresh trademark records on autopilot — for example, a daily trademark-watch that alerts you the moment a mark's status changes or a competitor files a confusingly similar mark.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a USPTO API key?

No. This Actor uses USPTO's public TSDR case-status pages and trademark search index directly — no registered API key required for the surfaces this Actor covers.

Is the data real-time?

TSDR case-status pages reflect USPTO's live prosecution record — status changes typically appear within a business day of USPTO posting them.

Can I monitor my own trademark portfolio automatically?

Yes — schedule recurring runs via Apify's built-in Schedule feature with your serial or registration numbers. We don't build a separate diff/alerting engine; Apify Schedule plus your own diffing of the dataset covers recurring monitoring.

Does this cover international or EU trademarks?

No — this Actor covers US federal (USPTO) marks only. We can build dedicated Actors for EUIPO or Madrid Protocol marks on request.

Can I get opposition or cancellation (TTAB) history?

Not in v1 — TTAB proceeding documents are a distinct data surface, already covered by a separate competing Actor. Only case-status summary fields ship here.

Why is status_date sometimes null?

Rows produced by the free-text query mode don't carry a discrete status-change date in USPTO's search index; direct serialNumbers/registrationNumbers lookups do when the source page has one.

Why is attorney_name sometimes empty?

Not every filing lists a registered attorney — pro se filings and some foreign-owned marks often omit it.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit an edge case, or need a new field (image/logo download, TTAB history, assignment records)? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and read every report.

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