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Google Patents MCP - Search, Details, Citations, AI Summaries

The Google Patents API for AI agents and IP professionals. Use this actor with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible AI agent.

Search Google Patents by keyword, inventor, or assignee across USPTO, EPO, WIPO, JPO, CN, KR, and 100+ patent offices. Pull full patent details: claims, citations, family graphs, CPC classifications, and PDF URLs. Get AI-generated patent summaries (top assignees, inventors, and CPC classes with percentage and year-range frequency). Pay per event - no flat monthly fees.

Use it from your AI agent

Wire this actor into Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP client and your agent can run tasks like:

• "Find all patents filed by Apple in the last 5 years and return assignees, inventors, filing dates, and citation counts."
• "Pull the full claims, abstract, and citation network for patent US10123456B2."
• "Get an AI-generated summary of patents about graphene battery with the top assignees and CPC classes."
• "Monitor new patents filed in CPC class H01M for any new applications since last month."
• "Build a citation graph from patent US11734097B1 showing all backward and forward citations."
• "Find all patents by inventor John Smith at IBM and rank by forward citation count."

For IP attorneys, R&D teams, and patent valuation specialists

This actor is built for professional patent work:

• Prior-art search - Full keyword + filter search across 100+ offices with CPC/IPC classification filtering and date-range filtering on priority, filing, or publication dates.
• Freedom-to-operate analysis - Pull full claims text and citation networks for any patent in seconds; export as JSON to feed into your claim-chart workflow.
• Technology landscaping - The AI summary block returns top assignees and top CPC classes for any search, with year-range frequency arrays so you can visualize a technology landscape in one chart.
• Patent valuation - Forward citation counts (cited_by) come back with every details lookup, ready to feed citation-weighted valuation models.
• Competitive intelligence - byAssignee mode gives you every patent from a target company filtered to a country, type, status, and date range, in one call.

Quick start

Use as an MCP tool (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT)

This actor runs on the Apify MCP server, so any MCP-compatible AI client can discover and call it.

1. Install the Apify MCP server. Point your client at the hosted endpoint:

https://mcp.apify.com

In a client that uses an mcpServers config (such as Claude Desktop or Cursor), add a server entry like this and restart the client:

{
"mcpServers":{
"apify":{
"url":"https://mcp.apify.com",
"headers":{
"Authorization":"Bearer YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}

The exact, per-client setup steps are in the Apify MCP integration docs.

2. Call this actor by name. Once the server is connected, your agent can find it through search-actors or call it directly by its full name:

johnvc/google-patents-api

Every input parameter carries an LLM-readable title and description, so the agent can pick the right inputs on its own.

Watch: how to install and use the Apify MCP server

New to MCP? This Apify walkthrough shows how to install the MCP server and use it to discover and run actors from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.

Run from the Apify console

1. Click Try for free on the actor page.
2. Fill in a search query, e.g. q: graphene battery, max_pages: 2.
3. Click Start. Results land in the default dataset, one row per search page.

Run via the Apify API

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/johnvc~google-patents-api/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{
 "q": "graphene battery",
 "country": "US,EP",
 "after": "filing:20200101",
 "max_pages": 3,
 "include_ai_summary": true
 }'

Input parameters

The actor accepts one flat input form. The mode is implicit from which fields you fill:

Output

Each dataset item represents one page of search results (or one details record). The shape is:

{
"search_parameters":{ ... },
"search_metadata":{
"total_results":1340,
"patents_count":10,
"pages_processed":1,
"mode":"search"
},
"search_timestamp":"2026-05-14T12:34:56",
"page_number":1,
"patents":[
{
"patent_id":"patent/US10123456B2/en",
"title":"...",
"snippet":"...",
"assignee":["..."],
"inventor":["..."],
"priority_date":"2018-01-15",
"filing_date":"2019-01-15",
"grant_date":"2021-11-23",
"publication_date":"2021-11-23",
"publication_number":"US10123456B2",
"pdf":"https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/..."
}
],
"ai_summary":{
"assignees":[{"key":"...","percentage":12.4,"frequency":[...]}],
"inventors":[...],
"cpc":[...]
}
}

In details mode, the same item also carries a details object with claims, cpc_classifications, patent_citations, non_patent_citations, cited_by, worldwide_applications, parent/child/priority applications, legal_events, images, and the PDF URL.

Pricing

Pay per event:

A search page (~10 patents), a details lookup, and a details-mode result each count as one page_processed. Use max_pages and include_details to control your total spend.

Scheduled monitoring

To monitor new filings, schedule this actor in the Apify console and pair it with the after: publication:YYYYMMDD parameter. Each run returns only patents published after your cursor date - feed the dataset into your downstream alerting workflow.

Support

Issues or feature requests: open a ticket on the Apify actor page or message the maintainer through the Apify console.

n8n integration

Available as an n8n community node, n8n-nodes-google-patents-api. In n8n: Settings, Community Nodes, install n8n-nodes-google-patents-api, then use it in any workflow (it also works as an AI Agent tool).

Featured Tasks

Ready-to-run examples that show this API solving a specific problem. Each opens its own setup so you can run it on your account in one click.

• Find all patents assigned to OpenAI - OpenAI's patent portfolio with numbers, dates, inventors, and statuses.
• Track new solid state battery patents from Toyota - fresh Toyota solid-state battery filings with numbers and dates.
• Run patent searches in Claude via a Google Patents MCP - patent search inside Claude (free trial available) chat via MCP, with assignees and dates.

Last Updated: 2026.06.19