Patent & IP Filing Monitor

Know when competitors, clients, or technology areas file new USPTO patents — before you hear it elsewhere.

Stop manually checking USPTO. Set watchlists for companies, inventors, keywords, and patent classes. Get scored, alert-ready results you can feed into email, Slack, dashboards, or your IP workflow.

Run on Apify → · Try it free (Demo mode) — no USPTO account required

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Who this is for

You are…	You get…
IP & patent counsel	Early notice of filings and grants that match your clients or matter keywords
In-house R&D / IP	Visibility into what rivals and partners are patenting in your space
Competitive intelligence	Structured competitor watchlists with risk scoring
Investors & corporate dev	Signals on technology bets (CPC classes, keywords, assignees)
Legal ops & innovation teams	Exportable records for review — JSON or CSV

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Why teams use it

• One place for USPTO monitoring — applications and grants, not scattered manual searches
• Relevance scoring (0–100) — focus on what matters; filter noise with a minimum score
• Risk levels — highlight competitor filings and high-impact matches
• Built for alerts — each row includes a one-line summary, match reasons, and a stable ID for deduplication
• “What’s new since last week?” — scheduled runs flag patents you haven’t seen before
• Try before you commit — Demo mode runs with realistic sample data; no API key signup
• Your data, your key — live USPTO search uses your own free USPTO Open Data Portal key (we never share one publisher key across customers)

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How it works

1. Define what to watch — company names, competitors, inventors, keywords, or CPC/IPC classes (pick at least one).
2. Run once or on a schedule — daily, weekly, or monthly monitoring.
3. Review scored results — title, assignee, dates, status, relevance, risk, and a ready-made alert line.
4. Act — export CSV, connect a webhook to Slack/email/Zapier, or pipe the dataset into your tools.

Live USPTO data: Add your free API key from data.uspto.gov (USPTO.gov + ID.me).
Just exploring? Leave Demo mode on — sample patents, zero USPTO signup.

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Get started in 2 minutes

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Click Try it or Start (Demo mode is prefilled — e.g. Tesla + battery keywords).
3. Open the Output tab — patent matches with scores and alert text.

Going live: Turn off Demo mode, paste your USPTO ODP API key, set data source to ODP (or Auto with key), and add your real watchlists.

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Example use cases

Competitor landscape

Watch assignees like Rivian Automotive and Lucid Motors plus keywords such as solid state battery. Run daily, export only rows marked new since the last run.

Client & portfolio awareness

Monitor assignee names for key clients and technology keywords tied to active matters. Use minimum relevance score to reduce review load.

Technology area radar

Track CPC classes (e.g. G06F, H01M) and terms in titles and abstracts. Filter by filing or publication dates for recent activity only.

Executive-ready export

Set output to CSV or all and download a spreadsheet for counsel or leadership — no integration required.

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What you receive

Every matching patent includes the essentials for decision-making:

You see	Why it matters
Title, assignee, inventors	Who filed what
Filing, publication, grant dates	Timeline
Application vs grant	Stage of rights
Relevance score	Prioritize review
Risk level	Spot competitor / high-impact hits
Alert summary	Drop straight into Slack or email
Is new	Incremental monitoring on schedules
USPTO link	One click to the source

Optional: claims summary and citation fields when you need deeper context.

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Pricing

Pay only for what you use on Apify:

Patent matches	$2.00 per 1,000 results (each saved patent row)
Actor start	$0.00005 per run
Platform usage	Standard Apify compute (varies by plan)

Typical costs: A quick Demo try (a few matches) is usually well under $0.01 in Actor fees. A routine watchlist run with dozens of matches is often $0.05–0.20 in event fees, plus platform usage.

Demo mode is ideal for evaluation; production monitoring uses your own USPTO key at no extra charge from us.

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Scheduling & alerts

• Set alert frequency to daily, weekly, or monthly.
• Create an Apify schedule so monitoring runs automatically.
• Use webhooks on run success to push results to Slack, email, Make, or Zapier.
• Focus on rows where Is new is true — those weren’t in your previous scheduled run.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a USPTO API key?
Not to try it. Demo mode uses sample data (prefilled in Try it). For live USPTO filings and grants, add your own free key from data.uspto.gov.

Is my API key shared with other users?
No. Each customer uses their own key (bring your own key). We don’t provide a shared publisher key for live data.

How do I know results are real USPTO data vs demo?
Live rows are labeled accordingly in the output; the run status also shows whether the run used demo or live data.

What if I can’t get a USPTO key yet?
Use Demo mode to validate scoring, exports, and workflows. Move to live when your key is ready.

Can I get a spreadsheet?
Yes — choose CSV or “all” output and download from the run.

Why zero results?
Widen date ranges, lower the minimum relevance score, or check that company/keyword names match how they appear on patents. In demo, try names like Tesla Inc. with battery-related keywords.

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Integrations

Works with the Apify ecosystem you already use:

• Schedules — hands-off monitoring
• Webhooks — Slack, email, custom endpoints
• API & datasets — JSON for dashboards, data warehouses, or legal-tech stacks
• Make / Zapier — via Apify integrations

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Start monitoring

Open Patent & IP Filing Monitor on Apify — try Demo mode in one click, then switch to live USPTO when you’re ready.

Questions or custom deployment needs? Open an issue on the repository or contact the publisher through Apify Console.

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Technical documentation for contributors and integrators: see docs/README.md and llms.txt.