patent_landscape
ActiveTool of @gapup/mcp-knowledge
Search, analyze and map patent landscapes across major jurisdictions (US, EP, WO, CN, JP, KR). Three modes: (1) search — find patents by keywords, company name or inventor name; (2) landscape — aggregate distributions: top assignees, top inventors, CPC class breakdown, filings by year, citation leaders, white-space innovation opportunities; (3) lookup — retrieve a specific patent by number (e.g. US10000000B2, EP3456789A1, WO2023/123456). Primary source: WIPO PatentScope (WO PCT, keyless). Optional sources: USPTO PatentsView (US, env PATENTSVIEW_API_KEY), EPO OPS (EP/WO, env EPO_OPS_CONSUMER_KEY + EPO_OPS_CONSUMER_SECRET), Lens.org (global, env LENS_API_TOKEN). Use cases: freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis, R&D gap identification, VC due diligence IP audit, competitor patent portfolio mapping, inventor network analysis. SLA: <=24s p95 (parallel fetches, 8s per source). Cache: 24h TTL (patent data stable). Quality score: 30 pts per retrieved source (max 90), +10 if >=10 patents, +10 bonus for landscape mode with non-empty top_assignees.
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"query"
],
"properties": {
"mode": {
"enum": [
"search",
"landscape",
"lookup"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "search: keyword/inventor/assignee search; landscape: aggregate distributions; lookup: fetch by patent number. Default: \"search\""
},
"async": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If true, returns a job_id immediately (<200ms) instead of waiting for the result. Poll the result with job_result(job_id). Use for slow tools to avoid client timeouts."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 500,
"minLength": 2,
"description": "Keywords, company/inventor name, or patent number (e.g. \"machine learning\", \"Tesla Inc\", \"US10000000B2\")"
},
"date_to": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD — latest filing date"
},
"date_from": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO date YYYY-MM-DD — earliest filing date"
},
"max_results": {
"type": "number",
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 5,
"description": "Max patents to return (5-50). Default: 20"
},
"jurisdictions": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"enum": [
"US",
"EP",
"WO",
"CN",
"JP",
"KR"
],
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Jurisdictions to include. Default: [\"US\",\"EP\",\"WO\"]"
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
@gapup/mcp-knowledge
https://github.com/getgapup/gapup-mcp
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