Open Data Portal

The USPTO's patent and trademark data lived in a legacy catalog that was hard to search and harder to build on. As UX Lead, I ran research with dozens of USPTO stakeholders and designed the Open Data Portal to serve two audiences at once: people who just need an answer, and developers who need a reliable API.

The result is a $75M platform with AI-powered natural-language search, clear API documentation, and a smooth path off the old system. It now supports 675 TB of data, 80M+ weekly API calls, and 10,000+ API users, and it cut monthly hosting costs by 43%.