patent status

Resolve a company or inventor name to an entity id

Answers: which entity is 'Impossible Foods' (or any assignee / inventor name) in the USPTO record, and what are its known name variants. Start here before /v1/entities/{id}/applications, /v1/assignments?assignee=, or /v1/ptab?patent_owner=. Results are ranked (prefix matches first) and include aliases, location, and counts {applications, patents, pending}. A company printed under several names is one row with a fam_... family id and members; a family id is accepted wherever an entity id is. type filters to assignee or inventor. Costs 1 unit per 100 rows.

get/v1/entities/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.patentdata.ai
  • URL: https://api.patentdata.ai/v1/entities/search
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header X-API-KEY
    • HTTP bearer

Query parameters

qstring required

Name to resolve; punctuation, case and corporate suffixes are ignored.

typestring nullable

assignee or inventor.

limitinteger

Response

Successful Response

unknown required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.