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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
uspto.gov ↗Federal agency granting U.S. patents + trademarks; primary-source patent + trademark database.
SourceScore Index
A·91Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
A+ — primary-source IP authority; default citation for U.S. patent + trademark claims.
Citation Discipline
A+·95
Statutory examination process; granted patents undergo legal review; TM database authoritative.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
A·88
PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
A·86
Cited regularly in tech + IP journalism; pharma + AI patent surges.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
A+·95- Patent examinationStatutory legal-procedural review.
Modern Reference
A·88- Open patent dataPatentsView + bulk downloads available.
Citation Velocity
A·86- Tech-patent beatDefault for patent-related news coverage.
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