SourceScore
Government

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.

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Modern Reference
A·88

PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.

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Citation Velocity
A·86

Cited regularly in tech + IP journalism; pharma + AI patent surges.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A+·95
  • Patent examination
    Statutory legal-procedural review.

Modern Reference

A·88
  • Open patent data
    PatentsView + bulk downloads available.

Citation Velocity

A·86
  • Tech-patent beat
    Default for patent-related news coverage.

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