@pipeworx/epo-ops

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/epo-ops/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 5

European Patent Office Open Patent Services MCP — published patents from the EPO worldwide patent register (DocDB).

Tools

  • search_patents(query, range?) — CQL search against published patents
  • get_biblio(number, format?) — bibliographic data
  • get_family(number) — INPADOC family (related applications worldwide)
  • get_abstract(number) — abstract text
  • get_claims(number) — claims text

Auth

  • Platform key: gateway env PLATFORM_EPO_KEY (consumer_key:consumer_secret pair joined with colon)
  • BYO: ?_apiKey=<consumer_key>:<consumer_secret> after registering at https://developers.epo.org/

The pack exchanges credentials for a bearer token (20-min TTL, cached).

Data source

https://ops.epo.org/3.2/rest-services/ — OAuth2 client_credentials, JSON via Accept: application/json.

Patent number formats: EPO docdb (EP.1234567.A1), epodoc (EP1234567), original (EP1234567B1).

Tools

  • search_patents — Search published patents worldwide via EPO OPS and get back full bibliographic records — title, applicants, inventors, publication date, country, IPC classifications — for each hit. Searches EPO DOCDB
  • get_biblio — Bibliographic data for one published patent — title, inventors, applicants, publication date, IPC classifications. Drawn from EPO DOCDB, which covers 100+ patent offices, so Chinese, Japanese, Korean
  • get_family — INPADOC family — every related patent publication worldwide covering the same underlying invention, which is how you find the Chinese, Japanese, US and European members of one filing. Give the publica
  • get_abstract — Fetch the abstract text of a published patent from EPO OPS. Give the publication number as printed on the document; a trailing kind code is handled for you. Requires _apiKey=consumer_key:consumer_secr
  • get_claims — Fetch the full claims text of a published patent from EPO OPS. EPO’s full-text collection is narrower than its bibliographic one — European (EP) and PCT (WO) publications have the broadest claims cove

Tools

  • get_abstract — Fetch the abstract text of a published patent from EPO OPS. Give the publication number as printed on the document; a trailing kind code is handled for you. Requires _apiKey=consumer_key:consumer_secr
  • get_biblio — Bibliographic data for one published patent — title, inventors, applicants, publication date, IPC classifications. Drawn from EPO DOCDB, which covers 100+ patent offices, so Chinese, Japanese, Korean
  • get_claims — Fetch the full claims text of a published patent from EPO OPS. EPO's full-text collection is narrower than its bibliographic one — European (EP) and PCT (WO) publications have the broadest claims cove
  • get_family — INPADOC family — every related patent publication worldwide covering the same underlying invention, which is how you find the Chinese, Japanese, US and European members of one filing. Give the publica
  • search_patents — Search published patents worldwide via EPO OPS and get back full bibliographic records — title, applicants, inventors, publication date, country, IPC classifications — for each hit. Searches EPO DOCDB

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