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The self-hosted connector keeps gaining traction. Mid-size firms are its backbone, larger firms have come on board with more evaluating, and it now reaches into global enterprises. On the free hosted side, thousands already run their patent work through it. At that scale, single sign-on is not
The Patent Connector has its first partner outside the patent offices: The Lens is live. Intelligence itself is not new here - my own patent reference server was the first such layer. What is new is opening it to an outside partner. The big commercial platforms are in the pipeline too,
My wife and I have been building something called Klangdomäne - "sound domain". The idea is simple: a place where musicians go to devote themselves to music. Music is the master there. And because the place is free of all the distractions that making music sometimes brings with it
Patent Connector v1.11.0 adds INPI, the French patent office, as a full provider. What you get Patents. Bibliography, abstract and search-report citations from the office's ST36 notices, plus INPI's own legal status exactly as published (the office says "Déchu", you see
Literally it's 4:15 in the morning and it was one of those nights... so I decided to write down some thoughts I've had on my mind but had no time to share. I noticed the article AI in the patent industry: Beware the MCP Trojan
While writing this I listened to another work on repeat: Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, the "Kreutzer" - Martha Argerich again, this time not with Kremer but with Vadim Repin. The third movement fits this post: it is itself a fight between violin and piano, on equal
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