Patent Connector 1.4: Now It Speaks Trademark

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 am shipping v1.4, and the headline is EUIPO, the EU Intellectual Property Office: EU trademarks and registered designs, full search, retrieval, even the images. It was by far the most requested addition. Next in the pipeline: JPO (Japan), IP Australia and TIPO (Taiwan).

Alongside EPO (Europe), USPTO (US) and DPMA (Germany), it has quietly become the most advanced patent MCP server out there. And it is not only live registers. The classification schemes are built in and always on, no credentials needed: CPC, IPC and FI in full hierarchy, plus the JPO F-term index. So are the examination manuals: USPTO MPEP and TMEP, the EPO, EUIPO and WIPO guidelines, IP Australia, KIPO, JPO and DPMA. All searchable by meaning rather than exact wording, and grouped by office so jurisdictions never get co-ranked.

So here is what I keep circling. Once agentic automation sits directly on live source data, with nothing cached in between, where does today's IP software land in one or two years? I have spent enough time in this field to hold strong priors, and enough time at the frontier to suspect most of them are about to be tested. I do not think the current generation of tools is built for that shift.

Writing this from Cornwall. When it really pours, the laptop comes out. The rest of the time the landscape wins: cliffs, sea, a quality of light I did not know existed. If you ever get the chance, come visit.

If you work in IP and could point agentic AI at any source next, what would it be?