Global Patent & IP Enforcement Actions Monitor
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Extracts USPTO PTAB patent-dispute proceedings (IPR/PGR/CBM/Derivation), plus an optional EPO Open Patent Services opposition-watch module. Both sources are BYOK via free registration. PatentsView (down) and WIPO (paid-only) are out of scope - see README.md.
This actor was already the closest of the 5 non-mandate actors to full V2 fidelity - a correctly-NAMED key-value store and real fingerprint-based classification (first_seen/updated/unchanged, mapped to SANCTION/UPDATED/SNAPSHOT_NO_DIFF) were both already in place before this release. This is a narrower, targeted release closing the three specific gaps found: no terminal event, zero test coverage on the delta logic itself, and 503 folded into a generic non-calibrated retry path.
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TERMINATED event type (uspto_ptab only). A PTAB trial's terminationDate field transitioning from unset to set - the trial genuinely concluding - is now reported as its own distinct event, not folded into a generic UPDATED alongside every other status-fingerprint change. src/state.ts's terminationDates map tracks this field separately from the existing opaque status fingerprint (added as a new, backward-compatible field on DeltaState - loadState() backfills an empty map for state persisted before this change, rather than rejecting it), and the new isNewlyTerminated() pure function detects the transition. Deliberately only fires on a genuine transition: a trial that's already terminated on its very first sighting is a normal first_seen/SANCTION, not a "transition" - there's nothing to transition from.test/state.test.ts: full unit coverage of classifyRecord() and isNewlyTerminated() (12 tests) - previously the actual delta/classification logic had zero dedicated tests, only the pure UMS-mapping layer was tested. Also covers state persistence, including a legacy-shape backfill test.src/http.ts, matching the existing 429 branch's structure (a dedicated branch, not folded into the generic non-ok catch-all) - honors a real Retry-After header when present (RFC 9110 permits one on a 503, though neither USPTO ODP nor EPO OPS documents sending one), falling back to exponential backoff otherwise. 5 new tests in test/http.test.ts mock real 429/503/401 scenarios, including Retry-After handling on both.LICENSE (Apache-2.0, matching the fleet standard), eslint.config.mjs (missing before - npm run lint was defined but could not run), .github/workflows/test.yaml (this actor had no CI pipeline), this CHANGELOG.md, AGENTS.md.!response.ok fallback path retried ANY non-ok status via the generic catch block - including a genuine permanent client error like 401/403/404, which can only ever fail the same way again. Not a correctness bug (unlike the 429-exclusion bug found the same day on actor-22-drug-safety-recalls-monitor - this actor's issue was the opposite: retrying something that should NOT be retried, wasting retry budget rather than giving up too early), but fixed for consistency: a new HttpError class distinguishes a genuine HTTP-status failure (never retried, except the explicit 429/503 branches) from a network-level failure (DNS, connection reset - still retried, since those genuinely can succeed on a later attempt).TERMINATED-equivalent for epo_opposition. This actor's currently-parsed EPO fields have no analogous "the opposition process concluded" signal the way PTAB's terminationDate does - a new eventCode on an EP publication IS itself the point of that record (a new legal event occurring), not a status field to diff against a prior state. Forcing a symmetric terminal event here without a real underlying field would be inventing a signal the source doesn't provide.GET acts/{id}: single-tier result at $0.002/record - untouched by this release.