WIPO Trademarks Scraper [$8/1K💰] | Madrid Monitor | Patents

WIPO Trademarks & Patents Scraper

Search international trademark registrations on WIPO's Madrid Monitor and pull PCT patent publications from PATENTSCOPE — mark name, holder, legal status, Nice classes, goods & services, designations, gazette publication and direct record links — as structured JSON, from $8 per 1,000 trademark records.

Built for:

• Brand clearance and naming research before filing
• Trademark watch and competitor filing monitoring
• IP due diligence and portfolio intelligence
• Patent landscape and PCT gazette tracking
• Building structured trademark and patent datasets

Find And Monitor International Trademark Registrations Without An API

WIPO publishes no public REST API for trademark search: its own FAQ states the Madrid Monitor database has "not currently" offered direct search access, and its terms disallow automated querying. This actor reads the same Madrid Monitor record surfaces and PATENTSCOPE gazette browser that WIPO serves in a normal browser session, and returns the results as clean JSON you can filter, export and schedule. No WIPO account, no browser, and no CAPTCHA in trademark mode.

How It Works

Trademarks are discovered through Madrid Monitor's public JSON query and detail endpoints, which expose every INID-coded field. PCT publications are read from the PATENTSCOPE weekly gazette browser, 200 rows per page, with optional keyword search.

Trademark rows carry mark name, IRN, holder, status, dates, Nice classes, goods and services, designations and gazette data. Patent rows carry publication number, title, applicant, IPC, kind and gazette date.

Both sources are plain HTTP and parse with Cheerio — no browser, no Playwright:

1. Trademark discovery — www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/api/v1/query/en/<term> returns the top-name matches for a brand term, an international registration number (IRN) or a Madrid record ID.
2. Trademark records — www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/api/v1/details/<record>?lang=en returns the full registration, with every field marked by its INID code (holder, representative, Nice classes, goods & services, designations, basic application/registration, gazette).
3. Patent gazettes — the PATENTSCOPE "Browse by Week" PCT gazette browser, including its PrimeFaces JSF AJAX pagination, gives 200 rows per gazette page (publication number, title, applicant, IPC, kind, application number, gazette date).
4. Patent keyword search (optional) — the PATENTSCOPE simple-search page, which may show reCAPTCHA on flagged IP addresses.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
query	array	No*	["NIKE"]	Brand names, or an IRN (652471), a Madrid record ID (WO50000652471) or a full Madrid Monitor record URL. Multiple entries are searched independently.
applicantName	array	No	[]	Filter fetched trademark records by holder/owner name (case-insensitive substring, OR-ed).
statuses	array	No	[]	Filter by legal status, e.g. Active, Ended, Pending.
niceClasses	array	No	[]	Filter by Nice class numbers (1–45), e.g. 9, 25, 35, 42.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	No	10	Top Madrid Monitor matches to read per query entry (max 25; the public lookup returns about 10 per term).
maxResults	integer	No	200	Hard cap on records stored in the dataset across trademarks and patents.
gazettes	array	No	[]	PCT gazette issues in NN/YYYY form, e.g. 42/2026.
latestGazettes	integer	No	0	Scrape the N most recent PCT gazettes instead of explicit numbers (0–60).
patentQueries	array	No	[]	Optional PATENTSCOPE keyword searches (residential proxy recommended).
patentSearchField	string	No	FP	PATENTSCOPE field for keyword queries (FP, EN_ALL, EN_ALLTXT, EN_CL, ALLNUM, CLASSIF, ALLNAMES, DP).
maxPagesPerGazette	integer	No	5	200-row pages fetched per gazette (a large gazette holds several thousand publications).
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	No	25	Safety cap on total HTTP requests.
proxyConfig	object	No	off	Standard Apify proxy picker. Trademark mode works without a proxy.

* A run with only query scrapes trademarks; a run with only gazettes/latestGazettes scrapes patents; an entirely empty input scrapes the latest PCT gazette.

Output Fields

Group	Fields
Identity	recordType, source, irn, internationalRegistrationNumber, markName, detailUrl, scrapedAt
Legal status & dates	status, statusCode, registrationDate, expirationDate, publicationDate, publicationText
Owner & representation	holder, holderCountry, representative
Classification	niceClasses, goodsAndServices (per-class text), inidFields (every INID-coded field)
Scope	designations, basicApplication, basicRegistration, logoUrl
Gazette	gazetteNumber, gazetteDate, publicationNumber, publicationNumberNormalized
Patent	title, kind, applicationNumber, ipc, ipcCodes, applicant, docId

Views: the Output tab has separate Trademarks and Patents tables.

Example Input

{
  "query": ["NIKE", "louis vuitton"],
  "statuses": ["Active"],
  "niceClasses": ["25"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "maxResults": 30
}

Patent run:

{ "latestGazettes": 1, "maxPagesPerGazette": 5, "maxResults": 200 }

Example Output

{
  "recordType": "trademark",
  "source": "WIPO Madrid Monitor",
  "irn": "652471",
  "internationalRegistrationNumber": "WO50000652471",
  "markName": "NIKE",
  "status": "Active",
  "registrationDate": "1996-04-16",
  "expirationDate": "2036-04-16",
  "gazetteNumber": "1996/2",
  "publicationDate": "1996-06-25",
  "holder": "CAMPOMAR, S.L. avenida de España 9 E-11701 CEUTA",
  "representative": "HERRERO & ASOCIADOS",
  "niceClasses": ["03"],
  "goodsAndServices": [{ "niceClass": "03", "text": "Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use" }],
  "designations": ["SG", "AT", "BG"],
  "detailUrl": "https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/api/v1/details/WO50000652471?lang=en"
}

{
  "recordType": "patent",
  "source": "WIPO PATENTSCOPE",
  "publicationNumber": "WO/2026/213632",
  "title": "DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING A SOLIDS-CONTAINING LIQUID",
  "kind": "Initial Publication with ISR[A1]",
  "applicationNumber": "AT2026/060095",
  "ipc": "B01F 23/43",
  "applicant": "SIEGA OG",
  "gazetteNumber": "42/2026",
  "gazetteDate": "2026-10-15",
  "detailUrl": "https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2026213632"
}

Automate Trademark Watch With Schedules & Webhooks

• Brand watch: schedule a daily or weekly run over your competitor brands, then diff consecutive dataset runs to surface new filings, status changes and expirations.
• Clearance screening: run your shortlist of proposed names before filing and archive the results as evidence of the search you performed.
• Weekly patent gazette: schedule latestGazettes: 1 to collect each Thursday's PCT publications as they are released.
• Warehouse sync: dataset webhooks push each finished run to Slack, email or a warehouse; recurring runs also improve this actor's Store recommendation signals.

Related Actors

• Global Trademarks Scraper — Madrid, EUIPO, USPTO & TMview — the largest trademark actor in this cluster; covers Madrid registrations alongside 145M+ marks from other offices.
• Google Patents Scraper — the most-used patent actor; complements the PCT gazette data here.
• USPTO Trademark Search Scraper — US federal trademark registrations, the national counterpart to Madrid international registrations.
• USPTO Patent Search — US granted patents and published applications with citations and CPC classes.
• USPTO Trademark Search — Full Text & Status — USPTO trademark lookup with status and class filters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use this actor instead of the official API?

WIPO does not offer a public trademark search API. Its own Madrid Monitor FAQ answers "I want to integrate your database into my project, do you have a public API for direct search access?" with "Not currently", and the terms of use specifically disallow direct automatic querying. The only programmatic routes WIPO sells are paid bulk data products — the complete Madrid backfile and a CHF-priced daily FTP feed (reportedly CHF 30,000/year) — neither of which is practical for on-demand lookups. This actor reads the same public Madrid Monitor surfaces that a browser session uses and returns normalised JSON, which is the practical middle path for small, on-demand samples.

What are the alternatives to scraping WIPO trademark data?

Four realistic options:

1. Paid trademark-watch subscriptions (Markify/Clarivate, Corsearch, Questel, LegalZoom, law-firm watches) that monitor the registers and email alerts. These start around $39/year for a single-register self-service tier and rise to $2,500–$10,000+ per mark per year at enterprise level. They are strong for alerting but do not hand you the raw structured record.
2. Third-party normalised trademark APIs that ingest WIPO's weekly ENOTIF event stream and expose designation-level status. Useful for scale, but a paid dependency.
3. WIPO's own bulk products — free weekly Gazette browse and the paid FTP/backfile feeds.
4. Scraping the public record surfaces, which is what this actor does.

Is there a free WIPO trademark data API?

No. The Madrid Monitor database is a free public service but not a free API, and its terms forbid automated queries. This actor wraps the same public surfaces so you get structured output and Apify's export/scheduling/webhook tooling on top; the free Apify plan returns a 10-record preview and paid plans get the full run up to maxResults.

Can I search by company name instead of brand?

Partially. Madrid Monitor's public lookup is searchable by mark name, IRN and record id; applicantName here is a filter applied to the records fetched for your query (case-insensitive substring, e.g. APPLE also matches APPLE INC.). Because the public lookup returns only the top name matches per term, combine a broad brand query — or several queries and direct IRNs — with the applicantName filter for portfolio work; the actor does not enumerate every mark owned by a company.

How do I monitor competitors' trademarks?

Schedule a recurring run for the brands you care about and diff consecutive runs. The dataset is stable and structured (irn, markName, status, registrationDate, expirationDate, gazetteNumber, publicationDate), so a new IRN or a changed status is easy to detect. For fully event-driven alerting across 190+ registers you would pair this with a paid watch service; for a lightweight free-form watch on Madrid records, this run-and-diff approach works.

How often does WIPO update the data?

Madrid Monitor is updated each day once that day's transactions land on WIPO's FTP site, usually in the afternoon Geneva time (CET). The WIPO Gazette of International Marks is published weekly. Realtime register status (documents in examination) is a separate tab and is not part of the daily snapshot this actor reads.

Can I get patents and trademarks in one run?

Yes. The dataset mixes both record types and the Output tab has separate Trademarks and Patents views. Trademark fields (mark, holder, Nice classes, goods & services) and patent fields (publication number, title, applicant, IPC) simply populate different subsets of the same schema.

Do I need a proxy?

Not for trademark mode. Enable Apify Proxy (residential recommended) only if PATENTSCOPE keyword searches (patentQueries) return nothing because of reCAPTCHA on your IP; the PCT gazette mode is unaffected.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: returns WIPO international trademark registrations (Madrid Monitor) and PCT patent publications (PATENTSCOPE gazettes) for given brand terms / IRNs / records / gazette numbers — keyless, no browser, keyed on irn and publicationNumber.

Minimal input:

{ "query": ["NIKE"] }

Direct record lookup:

{ "query": ["WO50000652471"] }

Patent-gazette variant:

{ "latestGazettes": 1 }

Output fields: recordType, source, irn, internationalRegistrationNumber, markName, status, registrationDate, expirationDate, gazetteNumber, publicationDate, holder, representative, niceClasses, goodsAndServices, designations, detailUrl, scrapedAt; patents — publicationNumber, title, applicant, ipc, applicationNumber, kind, gazetteNumber, gazetteDate, docId.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• query entries are OR-ed and searched independently; an IRN, Madrid record ID or full record URL in query triggers a direct record lookup instead of a name search.
• applicantName, statuses and niceClasses are filters applied to already-fetched records, not search parameters — they never widen the result set. Madrid Monitor's public lookup returns about 10 top matches per term.
• An empty input scrapes the latest PCT gazette, not trademarks.
• Each gazette page holds 200 rows; maxPagesPerGazette (default 5) and maxRequestsPerCrawl (default 25) are the runaway guards.
• patentQueries may be blocked by reCAPTCHA on datacenter IPs — enable residential proxy if it returns nothing.

Billing: pay-per-event — Trademark record $0.008 each, Patent record $0.0015 each, plus an Actor start event; free accounts get a 10-record preview.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It reads only publicly reachable WIPO Madrid Monitor record surfaces and the PATENTSCOPE gazette browser — no login, no WIPO account, and no CAPTCHA solving in trademark mode. WIPO's terms of use restrict bulk acquisition and automated querying of the Madrid Monitor database, and WIPO sells official bulk data products and a paid daily FTP feed for that purpose; this actor fetches small on-demand samples. Users are responsible for their own compliance with WIPO's terms of use and applicable law when storing, redistributing or automating access to the collected data. Trademark and patent records are provided as published at scrape time.

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