🇫🇷France joins the connector: INPI support in v1.11.0

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 "Déchu" - we never derive or translate legal states). Search the FR collection with INPI's bracket syntax ([TIT=moteur], [DEPOSANT=...]) or plain terms, list a patent's published fascicules with their section page maps, download the PDFs, and pull the abstract drawing.

Trademarks. Status with mark text, Nice classes, owners and the office's verbatim French status, trademark search, the mark logo, and the BOPI publication copy as PDF.

Designs. Registered design records (including multi-model applications), design search, and every reproduction image of a model.

French numbers route automatically: ask about FR2979290 in any common format and the connector picks INPI. Any number format EPO OPS emits works as-is.

Connecting

INPI issues no API keys - the credential is your INPI account's email and password, with API access granted per account. Create the account and request access at api-gateway.inpi.fr, then add the credentials on your dashboard like any other provider (bring your own key, as always).

v1.11.0 is live on the hosted connector now and available to self-hosters as the 1.11.0 image. As with every office: real data from the official source, wired through verbatim.

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