Search Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceeding documents and decisions via the USPTO Open Data Portal PTAB Trials API.
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Verified steps
Obtain a USPTO Open Data Portal API key (USPTO.gov account plus ID.me linkage), required for all ODP APIs.
Call the PTAB Trials search-decisions endpoint with parameters such as proceeding number, party name, or date range to find final written decisions and orders.
Call the search-documents endpoint to retrieve individual filings and exhibits within a given AIA trial proceeding (IPR, PGR, or CBM).
Parse returned metadata (proceeding number, filing date, document type) and use the provided document identifiers to fetch the underlying PDF/text.
Join PTAB results with the separate Patent File Wrapper API if you need full patent bibliographic context alongside the proceeding data.
Known gotchas
PTAB data covers only AIA trial proceedings (IPR/PGR/CBM) and related appeals — it is a distinct dataset/API from general Patent File Wrapper search and from Patent Public Search, and the three are not interchangeable.
USPTO's Patent Public Search tool (the full-text search UI) has no documented, supported public API for third-party integration; don't call its internal endpoints — use ODP's PTAB Trials or Patent File Wrapper APIs instead.
Field names and filters differ between the legacy developer.uspto.gov catalog (being phased out) and the current data.uspto.gov ODP endpoints; confirm you're referencing current ODP syntax.
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