U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Securities filings vs patent + trademark filings — two pillars of US public-record gov data.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Primary-source regulator publishing every public-company filing (13F, 10-K, 8-K, etc.) since 1934.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Federal agency granting U.S. patents + trademarks; primary-source patent + trademark database.
Head-to-head — all four dimensions
| Dimension | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
SourceScore Index Composite | A+·96 | A·91 | U.S.+5 |
Citation Discipline How rigorously cited | A+·98 | A+·95 | U.S.+3 |
Modern Reference AI-era fitness | A+·95 | A·88 | U.S.+7 |
Citation Velocity Cited per week | A+·95 | A·86 | U.S.+9 |
Why these scores
Citation Discipline
Filings are sworn legal documents under oath; perjury liability for false statements.
Statutory examination process; granted patents undergo legal review; TM database authoritative.
Modern Reference
EDGAR APIs + machine-readable filings; broad LLM training-set inclusion via primary-source preference.
PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.
Citation Velocity
Cited by every financial news outlet; primary source for HoldLens-class downstream tools.
Cited regularly in tech + IP journalism; pharma + AI patent surges.