Patents MCP Server

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add patents-mcp-server -- npx -y patents-mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patents-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "patents-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.patents-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "patents-mcp-server"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patents-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "patents-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "patents-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "patents-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: USPTO_API_KEY (USPTO Open Data Portal key (data.uspto.gov) — enables ODP, PTAB, citations and office actions), EPO_CONSUMER_KEY (EPO OPS consumer key (developers.epo.org) — enables international patent families and legal status), EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET (EPO OPS consumer secret), GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (Path to a GCP service-account key with bigquery.jobUser and bigquery.dataViewer — enables full-text search across 90M+ patents), GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_JSON (GCP service-account key as inline JSON — the alternative to GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS when no file can be mounted), GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT (GCP project ID billed for the BigQuery queries), TRANSPORT (Transport: 'stdio' (default) or 'httpStream' for remote/Docker deployments), PORT (Port to listen on when TRANSPORT is httpStream (default 8080)), LOG_LEVEL (Log verbosity: DEBUG, INFO (default), WARN or ERROR), HOST (Interface to bind when TRANSPORT is httpStream (default 0.0.0.0)), PUBLIC_BASE_URL (Base URL used to build the /resources/{id}.pdf links that odp-download-document returns).