Tool reference

Fetch dockets or documents from PACER via CourtListener's RECAP system.

Generate a Bluebook 21st Edition formatted citation from a CourtListener opinion.

List attorneys in a case with their contact information and the parties they represent.

Get bankruptcy-specific information for a docket: chapter, trustee, and key bankruptcy dates where CourtListener has them.

Explore the citation network for a CourtListener opinion.

Get detailed information for a specific federal court docket by its CourtListener docket ID.

List docket entries for a specific case.

Get a specific RECAP document by its ID.

Get the full text and metadata of a court opinion by its CourtListener cluster ID.

Get originating (lower) court information for an appellate docket: lower-court docket number, judges, and key dates such as judgment and notice of appeal.

List parties in a case with their attorneys and roles, grouped by party type (plaintiff, defendant, etc.).

Check if PACER documents are available in the free RECAP Archive.

Search federal court dockets in the RECAP Archive (PACER data).

Search U.S.

Search RECAP documents (court filings from PACER).

Retrieve the complete restricted-party designation record for a known Consolidated Screening List ID — full alternate names (aka), all addresses, ID/passport documents, dates and places of birth, sanctions programs, BIS license requirement/policy, Federal Register notice reference, vessel details, and full remarks.

Screen a person, company, vessel, or aircraft against U.S.

Check how current each U.S.

Retrieve the full Delaware Division of Corporations (Delaware Secretary of State) record for a known Delaware file number — entity name, formation / incorporation date, entity kind (Corporation, LLC, LP, …), entity type, residency (domestic/foreign), and registered-agent name and address.

Search the Delaware Division of Corporations (Delaware Secretary of State business registry) for companies by name — find a Delaware corporation, LLC, LP, LLP, or statutory trust and get its Delaware file number.

Look up an SEC-registered company by ticker, name, or CIK and return its EDGAR profile — official registrant name, CIK, SIC industry, tickers/exchanges, state of incorporation, fiscal year end, former names — plus a paginated digest of its recent filings (form, filed date, accession number, primary-document URL).

Retrieve one SEC EDGAR filing by its accession number: form type, filed date, period, and the filing's document index — every document and exhibit in the submission with a direct URL for each (primary document, exhibits, XBRL, the complete submission file).

Find SEC beneficial-ownership filings — Schedule 13D (activist/control intent) and Schedule 13G (passive institutional) reports of >5% stakes, including amendments — for a subject company (by ticker, CIK, or name) or filed by a specific owner (by CIK).

Search SEC EDGAR filings — annual/quarterly reports (10-K, 10-Q), current reports (8-K), proxy statements (DEF 14A), registration statements (S-1), Form D exempt offerings, Schedules 13D/13G, insider Forms 3/4/5, and every other EDGAR form — by full-text query, form type, company (ticker/CIK/name), and filing-date range.

Find SEC insider-trading filings — Section 16 Forms 3, 4, and 5 (and amendments) reporting officers', directors', and 10% owners' stock purchases, sales, option exercises, and initial ownership — for an issuer (by ticker, CIK, or name) or for a reporting person (by CIK).

Retrieve the full FINRA BrokerCheck record for a known broker CRD number — registration and licensing status (BD/IA), securities exams passed (Series 7/63/65, SIE, …), state registrations and SRO memberships, complete employment history across firms, regulatory sanctions and bars, and disclosure events: customer disputes and complaints, FINRA arbitrations, regulatory actions, judgments/liens, criminal matters, and terminations.

Retrieve the full FINRA BrokerCheck profile for a known brokerage-firm (broker-dealer) CRD number — registration status (BD/IA), SEC numbers, former names, organization details, main office, disclosure counts by type (regulatory events, arbitrations, civil events, bonds, judgments), state registrations, and direct owners / executive officers with their individual CRDs.

Search FINRA BrokerCheck for individual brokers — stockbrokers, registered representatives, financial advisors — by name or CRD number.

Search FINRA BrokerCheck for brokerage firms — broker-dealers and dually-registered investment-adviser firms — by name or firm CRD number.

Determine whether a merger or acquisition is reportable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger-notification rules (15 U.S.C.

Get the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger-notification threshold table for an adjustment year (default: most recent): the size-of-transaction threshold, size-of-person thresholds, the value above which size-of-person does not apply, and the six-tier filing fee schedule, with effective date and Federal Register citation (15 U.S.C.

Screen a party against the SAM.gov exclusions list — federal debarments, suspensions, proposed debarments, and other ineligibility determinations (the successor to the EPLS Excluded Parties List).

Search SAM.gov — the federal government's contractor registration system — for registered entities by legal business name, UEI (Unique Entity ID, the 12-character successor to DUNS), or CAGE code.

Search active federal contract opportunities on SAM.gov (formerly FBO/FedBizOpps) — solicitations, presolicitations, combined synopsis/solicitations, sources-sought notices, special notices, J&As, and award notices.

Calculate the SEC filing deadline (due date) for a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G beneficial-ownership report under Williams Act §§ 13(d)/13(g) and Rules 13d-1/13d-2 — when a 5% stake, activist position, or institutional holding must be reported, and when an amendment is due after a material change or a 10%/5% ownership step.

Calculate the SEC filing deadline (due date) for an insider's Section 16 report — Form 3 (initial ownership statement, due 10 days after becoming a director, officer, or >10% beneficial owner, 15 U.S.C.

Retrieve the full state business-registry record for a known entity — registration status / good standing, formation or registration date, entity type, jurisdiction of formation, registered agent for service of process, principal and mailing addresses, and (TX) officers, directors, and SOS file number.

Search a U.S.

Calculate the Williams Act tender-offer timeline from a commencement (launch) date: the earliest permissible expiration after the 20-business-day minimum offering period (Rule 14e-1(a)), withdrawal-rights windows (§ 14(d)(5) / Rule 14d-7, or Rule 13e-4(f)(2) for issuer self-tenders), and the required extension when the price, share percentage, or other terms change mid-offer (10 business days under Rule 14e-1(b); 5 business days for other material changes under SEC guidance).

List the registered charges of a UK company from Companies House — the security-interest register: mortgages, debentures, fixed and floating charges, with status (outstanding / fully or part satisfied), creation and satisfaction dates, the secured party (persons entitled), and negative-pledge / floating-charge flags.

Retrieve the Companies House profile for a known UK company number — registered name, status (active/dissolved/liquidation/administration), company type, jurisdiction, incorporation and cessation dates, registered office, SIC codes, and the diligence flags (registered charges, insolvency history, overdue accounts/confirmation statement).

List the Companies House filing history for a UK company — annual accounts, confirmation statements, share-capital changes (allotments, reductions), officer appointments/resignations, charge (mortgage) registrations, name changes, resolutions, and insolvency filings — newest first, paginated, with an optional category filter.

List the directors, company secretaries, and other officers (current and resigned) of a UK company from the Companies House register — names, roles, appointment and resignation dates, nationality, occupation, country of residence, and partial dates of birth (month/year).

List the persons with significant control (PSC register) of a UK company — the UK's statutory beneficial-ownership register: individuals or entities holding >25% of shares or voting rights, the right to appoint or remove a majority of directors, or significant influence/control.

Search the UK Companies House register for companies by name or company number — the entry point for UK corporate due diligence, M&A target research, counterparty checks, and entity verification (England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, LLPs, and overseas companies registered in the UK).

Aggregate federal-spending profile for one recipient (contractor / grantee / borrower) from USAspending.gov: total obligations and transaction counts for the trailing 12 months, all time, or a given fiscal year, plus UEI/DUNS, parent/child corporate linkage, business types, location, and the alternate names the entity received awards under.

Search USAspending.gov — the Treasury's canonical historical federal-spending dataset — for awarded contracts, IDVs (IDIQs/GWACs/BPAs), grants, loans, and direct payments by recipient/contractor name or UEI, awarding agency, NAICS industry code, keyword, and time period (data back to FY2008).

Decode, identify, or explain a legal citation string — what kind of authority it cites (case, U.S.C./state statute, C.F.R.

Build a Bluebook (21st ed.) citation from structured fields — format, cite-check, or generate the cite for a case, statute, or regulation.

Lint, check, or proofread a legal citation string against Bluebook (21st ed.) rules — catches "vs." instead of "v." (R10.2), missing court/year parentheticals (R10.4/R10.5), wrong reporter spacing like "F.

Normalize a patent number between formats (docdb, epodoc, original).

Get the CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) title and explanatory notes for a CPC symbol.

Get the INPADOC patent family for a known publication number.

Get the INPADOC legal-status timeline for a known patent publication number.

Get detailed data for a known patent publication number — bibliographic fields, abstract, full claims text, full description text, and/or equivalent publications.

Get the full European Patent Register record for a known EP or PCT publication.

List or read the PDF document images for a known patent publication.

Search patent publications worldwide via EPO Open Patent Services.

Search the European Patent Register for EP and PCT applications by title, applicant, inventor, IPC class, or raw CQL query.

Retrieve the full text of a specific FRAP rule as markdown.

List all rules in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) as a hierarchical table of contents.

Semantic search across the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP).

Retrieve the full text of a specific FRBP rule as markdown.

List all rules in the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (FRBP) as a hierarchical table of contents.

Semantic search across the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (FRBP).

Retrieve the full text of a specific FRCP rule as markdown.

List all rules in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) as a hierarchical table of contents.

Semantic search across the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Retrieve the full text of a specific FRCrP rule as markdown.

List all rules in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCrP) as a hierarchical table of contents.

Semantic search across the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCrP).

Retrieve the full text of a specific FRE rule as markdown.

List all rules in the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) as a hierarchical table of contents.

Semantic search across the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE).

Calculate a federal litigation deadline (due date) from a trigger date: answer or motion-to-dismiss deadline, time to amend, objections to a magistrate ruling or R&R, post-trial motions (JMOL, new trial, alter/amend judgment), notice-of-appeal date, or pretrial disclosures counted backward from trial.

Retrieve the table of contents for a specific MPEP chapter.

Retrieve the full text of a specific MPEP section as markdown.

Semantic search across the MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure).

Get the aggregated examiner citations (Common Citation Document / CCD view) for an invention family — the union of prior art that examiners at every patent office cited against any family member.

Get the Common Citation Document (CCD) orientation view for an invention family: the family members, each member's examiner- and applicant-citation counts, the offices and search phases present, and the family-wide unique-citation total after cross-office dedupe.

Retrieve the full ClinicalTrials.gov registry record for a known NCT number (e.g.

Search ClinicalTrials.gov — the NIH clinical-trial registry — by condition/disease, drug or intervention name (brand, INN, or development code), sponsor, free-text term, or NCT number(s), with status, phase, and first-posted date filters.

Retrieve the full Google Patents record (via SerpAPI) for a known publication — abstract, inventors, assignees, priority/filing/grant dates, CPC classifications, worldwide family summary, backward and forward citations, and similar documents.

Search Google Patents (via SerpAPI) for patents and published applications worldwide — prior art, freedom-to-operate leads, competitor portfolios, inventor/assignee landscapes — with filters for date cutoffs (priority/filing/publication), inventor, assignee, country, status (grant vs application), and design vs utility.

Retrieve the OPEN-ACCESS full text of an article from PubMed Central (PMC) by its PMC ID (e.g.

Retrieve the full record for ONE preprint by its server + id — the full abstract, all authors, date, subject category, DOI, version, and a link to the PDF.

Search open preprint / early-disclosure servers — arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and ChemRxiv — for scientific papers by keyword.

Retrieve the full PubMed record for a known PMID (all-digit ID, e.g.

Search PubMed — the U.S.

List the papers that CITE a given paper — forward citations, i.e.

Retrieve the full record for one scholarly paper by a known identifier — title, authors, venue, year, citation count, DOI, and reconstructed abstract.

List the works a given paper CITES — its own bibliography / reference list (backward citations).

Search the academic / scientific literature for prior art — journal articles, conference papers, preprints, and reviews across every field (biotech, CS/ML, materials, chemistry, engineering).

Read the published full text of a US patent or pre-grant publication: abstract, claims, and/or description (specification), extracted as plain text from USPTO's published XML.

Retrieve the full bibliographic record for one known US patent, pre-grant publication, or application number: title, all application/publication/patent numbers and dates, status, applicants, inventors, CPC/USPC classifications, art unit, examiner, and whether published full text exists.

Search US patents and published patent applications (pre-grant publications) for prior art by invention-title keywords, applicant/assignee, inventor, and date range — the USPTO Open Data Portal index of applications filed since ~2001.

Find US patents and pre-grant publications by patent classification — CPC symbol (exact, e.g.

Get aggregate CFPB consumer-complaint statistics for one company — total complaint volume, share with published narratives, response timeliness, and the top products, issues, company-response categories, and consumer states (each capped, with percentages).

Search the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (CCDB) — 15M+ individual consumer complaints against banks, lenders, debt collectors, credit bureaus, fintechs, and servicers, with the consumer's own narrative where published.

Search the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public enforcement-actions database — CFPB lawsuits, consent orders, civil money penalties, and stipulated judgments against banks, lenders, debt collectors, credit bureaus, fintechs, and other consumer-finance companies.

List OFR editorial/processing corrections to eCFR text — places where the eCFR rendering diverged from the official CFR (mis-processed amendments, typesetting errors) and was later fixed — filtered by CFR title and/or date.

Retrieve the full regulatory text of a CFR section by citation — e.g.

Browse the table of contents of a CFR title — its chapters, subchapters, parts, subparts, and sections — optionally as of a past date.

Full-text search of the Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) — find federal regulations, agency rules, and regulatory requirements by keyword, with filters for CFR title number, issuing agency, and point-in-time date.

Retrieve a single Federal Register document by its document number (e.g.

List documents currently on public inspection at the Federal Register — filed by agencies but not yet officially published.

Look up Federal Register agency slugs by name fragment.

Search the U.S.

Returns the authenticated session's PocketPart context — org, plan, enabled packs, API key prefix, and current-month usage — plus a tool count.

Echo a message back.

Returns a pong response with a timestamp.

Retrieve the full text of a U.S.

List the table of contents for a U.S.

Semantic search across the U.S.

Retrieve a specific patent/legal document template by slug or numeric ID.

Semantic search across patent and legal document templates.

List the international trademark registrations held by one owner under the Madrid System (WIPO Madrid Monitor) — a trademark-portfolio / brand-clearance view by holder name, optionally narrowed by the holder's country or register status.

Retrieve the full WIPO record for a KNOWN international trademark registration number (IRN) under the Madrid System — get it from madrid_search_marks or madrid_get_holder if you only know the brand or owner.

Search WIPO Madrid Monitor for international trademark registrations (Madrid Protocol / Madrid System) by mark text, holder/owner name, designated contracting party (country/region the protection extends to), Nice class, register status, or office of origin — combinable, AND-joined.

List every document in a US trademark application's file wrapper from USPTO TSDR — Office Actions, responses to Office Actions, specimens, the application, drawings, notices of allowance/abandonment, and registration certificates — by serial number or registration number.

Get the current status of a US trademark application or registration from USPTO TSDR by serial number or registration number — is the mark live or dead, registered, published for opposition, abandoned, or cancelled.

Retrieve a TTAB written decision (opinion) for a KNOWN proceeding number — the Board's ruling in a trademark opposition, cancellation, ex parte appeal, or concurrent-use case.

Retrieve the full TTAB docket sheet for a KNOWN 8-digit proceeding number — opposition, cancellation, ex parte appeal, extension of time, or concurrent-use case.

Search the written decisions (opinions) of the TTAB — trademark opposition, cancellation, ex parte appeal, and concurrent-use rulings from October 1996 to present — by full text of the opinion, party name, applicant's or opposer's mark/goods, proceeding type, precedential status, and decision date range.

Search TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) proceedings — trademark oppositions, cancellation petitions, ex parte appeals, extensions of time to oppose, and concurrent-use cases — by party name, mark text, application serial or registration number, or free text, with pending/terminated status and proceeding-type filters.

Check when the next US patent maintenance fee (renewal/annuity) is due for a patent NUMBER: looks up the grant date on the USPTO Open Data Portal, then returns all three fee stages (3.5/7.5/11.5 years after grant) with their payment windows, grace periods, current status (not yet open / payable without surcharge / in grace with surcharge / closed — expired if unpaid), and the current fee amounts for large, small, and micro entities.

Calculate the full maintenance-fee (renewal/annuity) timeline for a US utility patent from its grant date: the three fees due at 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years after grant (35 U.S.C.

Calculate Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) — the extra patent term a US utility patent earns for USPTO prosecution delays under 35 U.S.C.

Download a PDF document from a USPTO patent application or PTAB trial file wrapper.

Get details of a specific USPTO appeal or interference decision, including outcome, parties, and decision text excerpt when available.

Get detailed data for a specific USPTO patent application by application number.

Get details of a specific USPTO petition decision.

Get details of a specific PTAB trial proceeding, including parties, status, key dates, and counsel information.

List or read documents from USPTO patent applications or PTAB trials.

Browse USPTO appeal or interference decisions in reverse-chronological order.

Browse recent USPTO patent applications in reverse-chronological order.

Search USPTO petition decisions.

Browse PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) trial proceedings or decisions in reverse-chronological order.

Evaluate a mathematical expression and return the numeric result.

Convert a numeric value between units.

Search the web using the Exa API.