USPTO PTAB

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Patent Trial and Appeal Board litigation: search IPR/PGR/appeal proceedings, decisions, and filings by patent, party, or type. Free USPTO Open Data Portal key.

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Tools

ptab_search_proceedings

Search USPTO PTAB trial proceedings — patent litigation before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (inter partes review / IPR, post-grant review / PGR, covered-business-method / CBM, derivation). Return

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ptab_search_decisions

Search USPTO PTAB decision documents — institution decisions and final written decisions issued in IPR/PGR/CBM trials, plus appeal outcomes. Returns the trial number, decision type, issue date, trial/

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ptab_search_documents

Search USPTO PTAB filings and documents within trial proceedings — petitions, patent-owner responses, expert declarations, exhibits, motions, and briefs. Pass `proceeding_number` (the trial number, e.

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ptab_proceeding_timeline

Build a chronological PTAB proceeding timeline from the proceeding record and its public decision documents. Returns institution, final-written-decision, rehearing, settlement, dismissal, and other re

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ptab_patent_risk_profile

Summarize PTAB proceedings and recorded decision outcomes for one challenged patent. Reports status/outcome counts and recent matters for review routing; it is not a validity opinion, litigation forec

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ptab_party_exposure

Summarize PTAB proceeding exposure for a petitioner or patent owner, including roles, challenged patents, statuses, trial types, and recorded outcomes. Party matching follows USPTO indexed names and m

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ptab_recent_decisions

Return and summarize recently issued public PTAB trial decisions, optionally filtered by trial type, patent, or party. Outcome labels describe the document-level USPTO record and require review in pro

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uspto-ptab/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uspto-ptab/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ptab_search_proceedings","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("ptab_search_proceedings", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("patent trial and appeal board litigation: search ipr/pgr/appeal proceedings, decisions, and filings by patent, party, or type");