Patent Data Visualization

September 20, 2015 5:12 PM

PatentsView is a new patent data visualization platform from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The PatentsView beta search tool allows members of the public to interact with nearly 40 years of data on patenting activity in the United States. Users can explore technological, regional, and individual-level patent trends via search filters with multiple viewing options. The database links inventors, their organizations, locations, and overall patenting activity using enhanced 1976-2014 data from public USPTO bulk data files.
posted by jedicus (5 comments total)

Ah, there's an API as well. Hrm... interesting!
posted by underflow at 8:21 PM on September 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

Now do Office Actions! (At least bibliographic data, and preferably full file-history text.)
posted by spacewrench at 9:30 AM on September 21, 2015

type in your last name to see if you have relatives that invented stuff. i have a distant cousin that has patents on various hospital bed improvements...
posted by judson at 9:36 AM on September 21, 2015

Still buggy and/or incomplete (I have a patent myself, granted a year or two ago, and judson's test doesn't find it.)
posted by spacewrench at 10:29 AM on September 21, 2015

Interesting to try out. Thanks, jedicus. Persuading students to use the original USPTO search is never easy. This will help!
posted by librarylis at 2:13 PM on September 21, 2015