Patent Gap MCP Server

by dropwatchhq Your server? Claim it

answering

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

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

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

75 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Patent Gap every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	53 ms	4 min ago

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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 75 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 75 ms on average, which is faster than 86% 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.