PTAB Trials Scraper — USPTO IPR/PGR Tracker + Webhook Alerts
Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 ptab record results
Track USPTO PTAB patent litigation via the official Open Data Portal API: IPR, PGR, CBM & DER proceedings with normalized parties, status & key dates, plus institution & final-written decisions. Webhook + delta alerts push new filings and rulings to Slack/n8n. Free USPTO key (BYOK), $0.004/record.
Record id
id
Optional
Stable dedup id. For a proceeding record this is the trial number (e.g. IPR2024-00123); for a decision record this is trialNumber:documentIdentifier (or trialNumber:decision-N when no document id was returned).
Record type
recordType
Optional
Either "proceeding" (one per PTAB trial) or "decision" (one per decision document), depending on the actor's mode input.
Source
source
Optional
Always "uspto-odp-ptab" — identifies records as coming from the USPTO Open Data Portal PTAB trials API.
Trial number
trialNumber
Optional
PTAB trial number, e.g. IPR2024-00123, PGR2023-00045.
Proceeding type
proceedingType
Optional
AIA trial type: IPR, PGR, CBM, or DER.
Status category
statusCategory
Optional
USPTO trial status category as published by the ODP API (e.g. "Institution Granted", "Institution Denied", "Final Written Decision") — free text, no closed enum.
Patent number
patentNumber
Optional
US patent number challenged in this trial.
Patent owner
patentOwner
Optional
Patent owner / real party in interest name as recorded by USPTO.
Petitioner
petitioner
Optional
Petitioner real party in interest name as recorded by USPTO.
Petitioner counsel
petitionerCounsel
Optional
Counsel of record for the petitioner, where USPTO recorded it. Proceeding records only.
Patent owner counsel
patentOwnerCounsel
Optional
Counsel of record for the patent owner, where USPTO recorded it. Proceeding records only.
Inventor name
inventorName
Optional
Named inventor(s) on the challenged patent, semicolon-joined when multiple. Proceeding records only.
Application number
applicationNumber
Optional
Underlying patent application number for the challenged patent. Proceeding records only.
Patent grant date
grantDate
Optional
Grant date of the challenged patent (YYYY-MM-DD). Proceeding records only.
USPTO technology center
technologyCenter
Optional
USPTO technology center number for the challenged patent. Proceeding records only.
Group art unit
artUnit
Optional
USPTO group art unit number for the challenged patent. Proceeding records only.
Petition filing date
petitionFilingDate
Optional
Date the IPR/PGR petition was filed (YYYY-MM-DD). Proceeding records only.
Accorded filing date
accordedFilingDate
Optional
USPTO accorded filing date for the trial (YYYY-MM-DD) — the date used for date-range filtering. Present on proceeding records and copied onto decision records as proceeding context.
Institution decision date
institutionDecisionDate
Optional
Date of the institution decision (grant/deny), YYYY-MM-DD. Proceeding records only.
Institution date
institutionDate
Optional
Date the trial was instituted, YYYY-MM-DD. Proceeding records only.
Final decision / termination date
finalDecisionDate
Optional
Final written decision date, or trial termination date if no FWD, YYYY-MM-DD. Proceeding records only.
USPTO last-modified stamp
lastModified
Optional
Last-modified date or datetime string reported by USPTO for this trial record. Proceeding records only; format varies (date-only or full ISO datetime) depending on which upstream field supplied it.
USPTO API URL
apiUrl
Optional
Direct api.uspto.gov URL for this trial's proceeding (proceeding records) or decisions list (decision records) — useful for re-fetching or citing the source.
Parse confidence
parseConfidence
Optional
Heuristic confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0; drops below 1.0 when core fields expected from the USPTO response were missing on this record. See warnings for which fields.
Normalization warnings
warnings
Optional
List of human-readable warnings noting missing core fields or other normalization issues on this record; empty array when the record parsed cleanly. Diagnostic rows (records where most fields are null because USPTO omitted them) still have the full flat record shape with this array populated — never a separate row shape.
Decision type
decisionType
Optional
Type/category of the decision document (e.g. institution decision, final written decision). Decision records only; null with a corresponding warning when USPTO's decisions payload omitted it.
Decision outcome
decisionOutcome
Optional
Outcome of the decision (e.g. instituted, denied, unpatentable). Decision records only; null with a corresponding warning when not provided by USPTO.
Claims challenged
claimsChallenged
Optional
Patent claim numbers challenged in this decision, as reported by USPTO. Decision records only.
Claims found unpatentable
claimsFoundUnpatentable
Optional
Patent claim numbers found unpatentable in this decision, as reported by USPTO. Decision records only.
Decision date
decisionDate
Optional
Date this decision document was issued/filed (YYYY-MM-DD). Decision records only.
Document identifier
documentIdentifier
Optional
USPTO document identifier for the decision document. Decision records only.
Document name
documentName
Optional
Human-readable name/type description of the decision document. Decision records only.
Document download URL
documentUrl
Optional
Direct PDF download URI for the decision document (api.uspto.gov fileDownloadURI). Decision records only.
New since last run
isNew
Optional
Only present when the actor's onlyNewSinceLastRun (delta mode) input is enabled — set to true on every pushed record, meaning its id was not seen in a previous run of this actor.
