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$908,135,174

Department of Commerce·U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

to REED TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES LLC

financeactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-06-15·LATEST ACTION2026-06-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_1333BJ21C00151002_1344_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

PATENT DATA AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT (PD&DM)

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

Ongoing patent data and document management system for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, supporting examination and public records.

Sub-sectors
patent-office-operationsit-infrastructuredocument-management
Why this matters

The USPTO's core IT infrastructure underpins U.S. innovation policy and intellectual property protection for millions of patent filings annually.

Supply-chain signal

This is a systems integration and data management contract; signals continued reliance on commercial IT vendors for federal IP infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strong IP protection systems are critical to defending U.S. innovation from foreign IP theft and ensuring competitive advantage in patent prosecution.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002877.

Period of performance
Start
2021-06-15
End
2027-06-13
Status
activein 348 days
Sources

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