Patents MCP
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for patent search and prior art discovery, powered by the Google Patents public dataset on BigQuery. Its README documents 3 tools, including search_patents, get_patent, get_patent_claims.
People who work with bigquery, google patents and prior art and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Go.
VERIFIED ACTIVE
LAST COMMIT 2026-06-19 · ★ 5 · #168 OF 168 MAINTAINED DATABASE · VERIFIED 2026-09-18
MIT · Go servers · how we verify → /methodology
01 · Evidence
Security posture
What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.
license MIT - declared in the repository
registry namespace io.github.tushariitr-19 is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner
02 · What Patents MCP can do
Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.
What you can build
With this server connected, an agent can search patents by keyword, technology area, or inventor name, fetch full patent details by publication number, and fetch patent claims text.
The 3 tools it gives your agent
Extracted from the project's README - what patents-mcp lets an agent do.
- search_patents
- - Search patents by keyword, technology area, or inventor name
- get_patent
- - Fetch full patent details by publication number
- get_patent_claims
- - Fetch patent claims text
Latest releases
v0.1.0 · 2026-05-20
patents-mcp v0.1.0 · MCP server for patent search and prior art discovery powered by Google Patents public dataset on BigQuery. · Tools · search_patents - Search patents by keyword, technology area, or inventor name…
03 · Who maintains Patents MCP
patents-mcp is maintained by tushariitr-19. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to May 2026.
04 · Facts
- repository
- github.com/tushariitr-19/patents-mcp
- category
- database - ranked #168 of 168 actively-maintained database servers as of 2026-09-18.
- registry
- io.github.tushariitr-19/patents-mcp (active, first published 2026-05-21)
05 · Patents MCP FAQ
Is Patents MCP still maintained?
Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-06-19. We re-verify nightly.
What can Patents MCP do?
With this server connected, an agent can search patents by keyword, technology area, or inventor name, fetch full patent details by publication number, and fetch patent claims text.
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