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How OA citation downloads work

Upload an Office Action, inspect its citations, and download available cited patent documents with the citation list.

Published Sep 16, 2026

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What to upload

Upload a readable Office Action PDF from a supported source. The current flow accepts Office Action PDFs up to 25 MB.

What the workflow does

1. The service reads patent and non-patent citations from the Office Action and shows the references it could identify. 2. Review the cited patent, its country and the publication identifier. A citation that cannot be resolved remains a review item. 3. Download available original cited patent PDFs and English family publications with the citation list. Unavailable cited documents remain listed with a failure notice.

Google machine translations are external links only: open them on Google Patents; they cannot be selected or included in a download. DownloadPatent does not generate or download rebuilt text PDFs or DOCX files.

NPL means non-patent literature. NPL citations remain listed for review, but DownloadPatent does not download NPL full text. Verify citations and file completeness before using the package.

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