USPTO Examiner Data

USPTO Examiner Data
This page includes examiner data from the USPTO (https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables). These data come from ‘g_examiner_not_disambiguated’.

Below is a link to a folder that includes all examiner data for patents granted from January 1976 through December 2023. This folder includes nine different zip files. For ease of download and ease of importing, files are divided by patent number. File “exam_non_utility.tsv.zip” includes all non-utility patents. File “exam_5m.tsv.zip” includes all patents issued beginning January 1976 through patent number 5,000,000. File “exam_6m.tsv.zip” includes all patents between patent number 5,000,001 and patent number 6,000,000. Etc, etc.


Each file contains the following columns:
Variable
Description
patnum
Patent number
first_name
First name of examiner
last_name
Last name of examiner
art_group
Examiner group
primary
1=primary examiner, 0=assistant examiner

If you have any issues downloading the data, find any problems with the data, or have suggestions for how to make the data better/more user friendly, please let me know: mwoeppel@iu.edu. 

Additional USPTO patent data
Abstract, title data can be found here.
Assignee data can be found here.
Citations data can be found here.
Claims data can be found here.
Classifications data can be found here.
Examiner data can be found here.
General info data can be found here.
Inventor data can be found here.
Maintenance fee data can be found here.

Patent-CRSP permco match data
Patent numbers matched to permco numbers data can be found here.