⚖️ USPTO Office Actions Scraper

🚀 Export USPTO patent office actions in seconds. Search 19M+ examiner correspondence records by patent number, application number, examiner, art unit, filing date, or free-text query - no account required.

The USPTO Office Actions Scraper extracts examiner correspondence records from the United States Patent and Trademark Office public dataset API. Every record captures the full prosecution history document - invention title, filing and grant dates, examiner details, art unit classification, body text snippet, document code, and source system.

The dataset covers all patent office actions filed through the USPTO's OACS and OC systems, spanning utility patents, design patents, and continuation applications across all technology centers from 1700 (Chemical & Materials Engineering) to 3700 (Mechanical Engineering & Manufacturing).

Who uses this data?

Audience	Use Case
Patent attorneys	Monitor examiner patterns and art unit trends
IP researchers	Analyze prosecution history statistics
Technology analysts	Track innovation activity by workgroup and tech center
Legal tech companies	Build prosecution analytics and examiner profiling tools
Competitive intelligence teams	Monitor competitor patent prosecution activity
Academic researchers	Study patent examination behavior at scale

📋 What the USPTO Office Actions Scraper does

• Queries the USPTO DS API with full Lucene syntax support for flexible filtering
• Filters by patent number, application number, examiner employee number, or date range
• Returns structured records with invention title, classification codes, examination dates, and body text
• Handles pagination automatically to retrieve up to 1,000,000 records per run
• Cleans raw API responses - unwraps single-element arrays, strips null placeholder dates
• Delivers results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML via Apify dataset export

💡 Why it matters: The USPTO receives over 600,000 patent applications per year. Every office action represents a pivotal moment in prosecution. With 19M+ records available, this scraper gives IP professionals and researchers structured access to prosecution history at a scale impossible to achieve manually.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: applicationStatusNumber, applicationTypeCategory, bodyTextSnippet, examinerEmployeeNumber, filingDate, grantDate, groupArtUnitNumber, id, inventionTitle, legacyDocumentCodeIdentifier, nationalClass, nationalSubclass, patentApplicationNumber, patentNumber, results, scrapedAt, sourceSystemName, submissionDate, techCenter, workGroup. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: the bodyTextSnippet field returns the first 500 characters of the office-action body. For the full text, follow the prosecution-history link in PAIR using the application number. Lucene field names are case-sensitive (e.g. inventionTitle, not inventiontitle).

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 free credit
2. Open the USPTO Office Actions Scraper actor page
3. Configure your search - set criteria, date filters, or leave defaults for recent records
4. Set maxItems (10 for a quick preview, higher for bulk extraction)
5. Click Run and wait for the dataset to populate
6. Download your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This Actor accesses publicly available data from the USPTO's open dataset API in compliance with its terms of service. Data is provided as-is for informational purposes. Verify all records with the official USPTO Patent Center before relying on them for legal or business decisions.

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