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PatZilla is a modular patent information research platform and data integration toolkit with a modern user interface and access to multiple data sources.

Is ip-tools/patzilla beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of ip-tools/patzilla usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
123
Forks
31
Open beginner issues
4
Indexed issues
40
Avg merge
1h 6m
Merged PRs (30d)
50
Dominant language
Python
License
AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 22, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 22, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to ip-tools/patzilla

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
  3. Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Backend bails out when submitting query without data source: `KeyError: 'datasource'`
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#149 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • CIPO: `TypeError: Incoming markup is of an invalid type: None. Markup must be a string, a bytestring, or an open filehandle.`
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    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#139 · 1 comment ·

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  • Data export: `TypeError: Invalid value 'False' for dtype 'float64'`
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    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#138 ·

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  • UI: Update Babel
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    dependencies help wanted javascript

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#132 ·

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  • UI: Update Material UI
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    dependencies help wanted javascript

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#131 ·

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  • UI: Reading indicator is wrong
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#128 ·

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  • UI: Use packages instead of repository references in `package.json`
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    dependencies javascript

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#125 · 1 comment ·

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  • PQAI
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#124 ·

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  • Modernize Dockerfile
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#123 ·

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  • Support Pyramid 2.x
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    dependencies help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#122 ·

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  • patent-client-agents
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#118 ·

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  • Positively resolve dependency to next release of `mongodb_gridfs_beaker`
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    dependencies help wanted

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 57/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#113 · 3 comments ·

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  • Free PatentBrief widget for patent repos
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    Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#80 ·

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  • Listed on awesome-europe
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#79 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • fetch_st36xml: `TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'`
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#78 ·

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  • `payload.get('username').lower()` => `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'`
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#77 ·

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  • DPMAregister: Access forbidden!
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#76 ·

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  • DEPATISnet: search_patents: `AttributeError: 'exceptions.ValueError' object has no attribute 'read'`
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#75 ·

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  • Connectivity to `pdfpiw.uspto.gov` broken?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#74 · 3 comments ·

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  • How to install Patzilla on Ubuntu 23.04 ?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#73 · 3 comments ·

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  • Problems installing in sandbox mode, and migration to Python 3
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#68 · 18 comments ·

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  • USPTO PatFT and AppFT servers decommissioned on September 30, 2022
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#61 · 2 comments ·

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  • PatZilla does not serve requests when started in development mode
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#52 · 4 comments ·

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  • depa.tech doesn't work
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#51 · 9 comments ·

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  • Support Python 3
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#27 · 4 comments ·

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  • Unexpected HTTP 4XX in case of server issue
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#18 · 6 comments ·

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  • Report with bibliographic data
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#15 · 4 comments ·

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  • Grouping by family with OPS database
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#14 · 1 comment ·

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  • Improve documentation re. workstation setup vs. development setup
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 28/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#11 · 6 comments ·

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  • Support Docker-based development sandboxes
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#10 · 5 comments ·

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  • New Espacenet version will probably require adaptations
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    ip-tools/patzilla#4 · 5 comments · 1 reaction ·

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