🇺🇸 USPTO PAIR Scraper

🚀 Search and export US patents and applications in seconds. Find patents by keyword, assignee, inventor, status, or date and pull the full bibliographic record as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The USPTO PAIR Scraper pulls US patent and application records by querying the public USPTO bibliographic index. Each record includes publication number, title, abstract snippet, assignee, inventor, priority/filing/publication/grant dates, language, PDF link, and a direct USPTO source link.

The index covers granted patents back to 1790 and published applications since 2001. The scraper supports the same query syntax used by professional patent search tools - free-text terms, assignee filters, inventor filters, status filters, and date ranges.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	Why
IP attorneys & paralegals	Prior art searches, freedom-to-operate, due diligence
Competitive intelligence	Track competitor patent filings
R&D teams	Discover technology trends in your field
Investors & M&A analysts	Map patent portfolios for acquisition targets
Academic researchers	Quantitative patent landscape analysis
Patent licensing professionals	Find licensable technologies and current owners

📋 What the USPTO PAIR Scraper does

• Searches USPTO bibliographic data by free-text query, assignee, inventor, or status
• Paginates automatically until maxItems is reached
• Extracts up to 15 fields per record including title, abstract snippet, dates, parties, and PDF link
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Filters by priority date range, language, and grant vs application status
• Returns a clean USPTO source URL for every record

💡 Why it matters: US patents are the single most-cited form of technical disclosure. Programmatic access to USPTO records lets you build patent landscapes, monitor competitors, and run prior-art searches at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: assignee, countryCode, filingDate, grantDate, inventor, language, pdfUrl, priorityDate, publicationDate, publicationNumber, scrapedAt, snippet, sourceUrl, thumbnailUrl, title. 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: Use quotes around exact phrases. The country filter accepts standard ISO country codes. Free users are limited to 10 records per run regardless of maxItems.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account at Apify (includes $5 free credit)
2. Open the USPTO PAIR Scraper actor page and click Try for free
3. Enter your query, assignee, or inventor name
4. Optionally set maxItems and other filters
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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💡 Pro Tip: Browse the complete ParseForge collection for more government data, business intelligence, and research scrapers.

Disclaimer: This tool accesses publicly available US patent bibliographic data. ParseForge is not affiliated with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws.

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