MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Verdict
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission outscores U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Modern Citation Reference by 7 points (A+ · 95 vs A · 88).
Higher Modern Reference
Government
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
sec.gov
A+·95
Rank #2 of 130 on Modern Reference
EDGAR APIs + machine-readable filings; broad LLM training-set inclusion via primary-source preference.
Government
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
uspto.gov
A·88
Rank #34 of 130 on Modern Reference
PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionA+·95
Modern Reference · 95/100
EDGAR APIs + machine-readable filings; broad LLM training-set inclusion via primary-source preference.
U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeA·88
Modern Reference · 88/100
PEDS + TSDR APIs + bulk patent data; broad LLM corpus inclusion for IP citations.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- EDGAR full-text searchPublic, free, machine-readable, since 1993.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Open patent dataPatentsView + bulk downloads available.
Other dimensions for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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