Deprecation Announcement

The IDS API will be discontinued at a later date and is being deprecated. The functionality of the IDS API will be fully available in the Documents API. Any new development should utilize the Documents API, and products that currently use the IDS API should plan to migrate. The IDS API will continue to be available on the Innography API servers until further notice, but new feature development may be restricted to the Documents API.

We will communicate a more complete deprecation timeline for the IDS API in this space when available.

• Improved population of US documents with letters in their grant numbers

These issues were filed to APP-19600

• Resolved exceptions that could occur with the case endpoint
• Improved population of US documents with letters in their grant numbers

These issues were filed to APP-19542

• Improved population of CN documents

This issue was filed to APP-19321

• Improved filtering for exact matches

• Improved document type selection algorithm

Fixed an issue that prevented correct kind code specifications on the PDF endpoint.

• Added request and response logging.
• Improved matching logic around withdrawn patents.
• Improved selection of exact number matches.

• Improved selection of exact matches based on input number
• PDF improvements to document selection and performance

• Improved documentation

• Improved matching
• PCT number formatting improved
• Fixed typo in ipcrClassification objects
• PDF endpoint functionality restored for non-US patents
• Added support for non-English abstracts, improved tag scrubbing

• Fixes to parser for specified kind_code
• Inputs country_code and kind_code are now case insensitive

This release of the IDS API is major change from the previous versions.

• The routes have been simplified. You will no longer specify the API Version, IP type, or document type in the URL. The inputs will now be ids/{country_code}/{number}/{kind_code} with kind_code as an optional input. More details can be seen in the spec.

• When kind_code is given in the input, the API will return the specific case document data associated with that kind code.

• Structure of return has changed to be more flat, details are in the spec.

This release adds matching for withdrawn patents.

This release improves the formatting of the abstract fields in the API responses, and updates the spec to reflect previous undocumented changes.

• This release populates the IPCR classification fields in the return data
• caseId has been renamed to ipId in the return objects to clarify that we are using the IP ID.

This release removes the mock responses and ships with actual matching capability and data response on all endpoints. This release also adds an endpoint for PDF downloads. More details are available in the spec.

This is the initial release of the IDS API endpoints. At the moment, they only return a mock response. This is meant to be used to test verification through the Innography Kong infrastructure. More details are available in the API specification.