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Patent Gap MCP Server

com.dropwatchhq/patent-gap
answering

Patent Gap is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Off-patent opportunity feed: expiring design patents, recall + supplier screened, for sellers.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
71 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add patent-gap --transport http https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patent-gap": {
      "url": "https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.patent-gap]
url = "https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patent-gap": {
      "url": "https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patent-gap": {
      "url": "https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

categories
list_categories
List the private-label product categories Patent-Gap tracks for expiring design patents.
category
category_opportunity_report
PAID (x402, $0.03 USDC on Base). Full off-patent opportunity report for a category slug (see list_categories): every newly-expirable design patent with computed expiry, CPSC recall-safety band, and OFAC/OIG supplier screen, ranked by actionability. Free callers get a preview + x402 challenge.
newly
newly_expirable
Cross-category feed of design patents that just became (or are about to become) free to make — i.e. fresh off-patent private-label opportunities, soonest-expiry first, already recall- and supplier-screened.
screen
screen_patent
Screen ONE US patent by publication number (e.g. USD689332S1): compute its statutory expiry/status, join CPSC recall-safety for its category, and run an OFAC/OIG screen on the assignee. Returns the freedom-to-operate read (design-patent scope; not legal advice).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp streamable-http answering 64 ms 2 min ago

Patent Gap — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Patent Gap do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: category_opportunity_report, list_categories, newly_expirable, screen_patent. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Patent Gap working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 71 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Patent Gap?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Patent Gap need an API key?
No. Patent Gap completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Patent Gap?
It answers our handshake in 71 ms on average, which is faster than 93% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.