USPTO and Google have made available 10 terabytes of patent information.

The US Patent Office (USPTO) and Google have teamed up to massively provide free public access to patent and trademark data.

Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent Office (USPTO), David Kappos, announced on June 2 that the USPTO had entered into a non-commercial 2-year agreement with Google to make open data on patents and trademarks massively available to the public in electronic form. Under this agreement, the USPTO will transfer existing electronic files to Google, which Google will provide to the public unchanged and free of charge. This data is available on Google Patents .

The USPTO does not currently have a technical base for mass providing the public with this information. But understanding that such data should be provided free of charge and in electronic format, we found a way to provide this information in the form of cooperation with Google, which has the necessary technical base.

“The USPTO is committed to ensuring high transparency, as envisioned by the President’s Open Government Initiative. An important element of this transparency is the widespread dissemination of information on patents and trademarks so that companies and researchers can download them for analysis and study, ”commented the Undersecretary of State Kappos. “For the reason that the USPTO currently does not have the technical ability to offer this data en masse from our own website, we work as a team with Google to provide data in a convenient form and free of charge for everyone.”
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“We’re excited to work with the USPTO to make patent and trademark information more accessible and useful,” said John Orvant, Google’s technical manager. “It is important that public data be easier to collect and analyze. And when this data is free, it's even better. ”

Until now, public USPTO data were massively presented only as paid services. The USPTO estimates that about 10 terabytes of information will be available.

Examples of data types that will be available through Google include:
• Registered patents and filed public applications
• Applications for trademarks
• Judicial and Appeal Board (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)) proceedings on trademarks
• Patent Classifications
• Patent maintenance fees
• Transfer of rights to patents and trademarks

USPTO and Google will work together to make other data available in the future, including a history of changes in patents and trademarks, and related information.

Google also posted on its blog that 10 terabytes of patent and trademark information is available.

The translation was prepared by patent attorney Andrei Khvetkevich in collaboration with Natalia Winderskikh.