USPTO Patent Attorney & Patent Agent Directory Scraper

Export the register of patent attorneys and patent agents from the USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline — the authoritative federal list of everyone licensed to practise before the USPTO. Returns full name, registration number, firm, mailing address, phone, practitioner type, and status for 53,000+ active practitioners.

What does it do?

This actor downloads the active USPTO patent practitioner roster directly from the official OED practitioner directory. It returns structured records for all 53,000+ currently registered patent practitioners in a single fast run.

Data comes from the official USPTO OED active-roster endpoint, which publishes a complete ZIP/CSV export of all practitioners currently licensed to practice before the USPTO. The data is authoritative, current, and refreshed by the USPTO.

What data does it return?

Each record includes:

Field	Description
last_name	Practitioner last name
first_name	First name
middle_name	Middle name or initial
post_nominal	Suffix (Jr., III, etc.)
full_name	Assembled full name
firm_name	Business or firm name
firm_name_2	Firm name line 2
address_1	Street address line 1
address_2	Street address line 2
city	City
state	US state or province code
country	Country code (US, JP, DE, etc.)
postal_code	Postal / ZIP code
phone	Phone number
registration_number	USPTO registration number
practitioner_type	Patent Attorney, Patent Agent, Design Patent Practitioner, or Limited Recognition
status	ACTIVE

How to use it

Run the actor with default settings to download the full active roster (~53,000 records). Set maxItems to limit the number of records returned (0 = all).

Input options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	Integer	0	Maximum records to return. 0 = return all active practitioners.

Use cases

• Lead generation for IP law firms — Target patent attorneys and agents by location, firm, or registration date
• Competitive intelligence — Analyze practitioner density by state or firm
• Legal staffing and recruiting — Identify licensed patent practitioners for recruiting pipelines
• Patent analytics — Correlate practitioner data with patent filing records
• Compliance and verification — Verify that a practitioner is registered and active before engaging them

Performance

• Downloads the full 53,000+ record roster in under 10 seconds
• No pagination required — single HTTP download from the authoritative source
• Low resource consumption — runs comfortably in 256 MB memory

Data source

Data is sourced from the USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) — the federal agency responsible for regulating patent practitioners before the USPTO.

The roster reflects current enrollment status and includes practitioners authorized under 37 CFR Part 11.