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Since June, the Open Data Portal requires a registered USPTO.gov account. Now four profile fields have become mandatory: Job Title, Organization Name, Organization Type, and Intended Use. The deadline is August 18, 2026. If the fields are missing, your API access may be interrupted. Filling them in takes two
Patent Connector 1.6 is the biggest release since launch. It does three things at once: it ships the long-promised agentic-AI-first command-line tool, it teaches the connector to handle sound and multimedia trademarks, and it goes back through every office already supported and pulls more out
The most advanced MCP server for patents and trademarks, with the broadest coverage, plus a matching CLI for the terminal. Official patent, trademark and design data, straight from the offices, for Claude, ChatGPT and your shell. One engine, two ways to use it, across six jurisdictions. No scraping, no aggregators,
Originally written in German („Enthusiastische Angst"). While writing this, I listened to one piece, over and over: Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in D minor, the second movement, the Adagio (Apple Music · Spotify). Take a moment, a small pause - if you feel like it: listen
Patent Connector version 1.5.0 adds three new patent offices: IP Australia, the Japan Patent Office (特許庁), and Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office (經濟部智慧財產局, TIPO). Coverage now reaches across six jurisdictions and three rights - patents, trademarks, and designs - all from official office data, queried with your own API
Almost a year ago I built a small proof of concept: talk to patent offices directly through an MCP server. Then the daily usage started climbing and never stopped. Agentic AI is what tipped it over, and that little experiment quietly became something people now run every day. Today I
Patents are written in a secret language: the kind you get when legalese and engineering specs have a child and let a filing cabinet name it. That is how you end up with classification codes like C02F1/4604, which sounds like a malfunctioning robot but actually means "removing salt
Among patent offices, the USPTO runs one of the most ambitious open-data programs out there. The Open Data Portal (ODP) consolidates what used to be a scatter of legacy hosts into a single, key-authenticated, documented surface: patents, assignments, continuity, office actions, PTAB, bulk datasets. There is a real
After a tough review process, OpenAI just published Patent Connector to the ChatGPT app directory - and I couldn't be more thrilled. Anyone can now add it with a single click, no developer mode required, and with OpenAI's seal of approval that the app is safe and
I added trademark image retrieval to Patent Connector. The MCP specification defines exactly how a server should return images to a client. I implemented it by the book. Then I tested it across clients and the results were all over the place. What the Spec Says The MCP specification defines
Patent Connector version 1.2.0 adds USPTO office action search and trademark lookup tools. These pull data from the new ODP endpoints that USPTO migrated from the legacy Developer Hub. The underlying Go client library was updated to version 1.4 to support these APIs. Office Action Tools You
Version 1.4 of the uspto-odp Go client library adds two major API categories: Office Action search and Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR). USPTO migrated both from the legacy Developer Hub into the Open Data Portal, and the library now covers all of them. As with previous releases,