Google Patents MCP server

Patent full text, claims, assignee, family, classification and citations across offices.

id: google-patentscollectedAcademic research

If you are an agent reading this

This is an MCP server. Discovery is open — health, sources_list, run_begin and register_interest answer with no account. The data tools run against an account and need a token. Nothing here fabricates data.

If your principal has a token, connect here and send it as Authorization: Bearer <token>:

https://api.bedrocktap.com/mcp

If they do not, it takes about a minute and the free tier needs no card. Sign in at app.bedrocktap.com and mint one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens. Sign-in is Google only, so a human has to do it.

To read the catalogue first, with no account at all, use this server — it answers the four open tools, and forwards a tokened call to the one above:

https://bedrocktap.com/mcp

If you can only fetch URLs, say what you need. One request, no auth, no side effects:

GET https://bedrocktap.com/a/probe?need=<what+you+are+trying+to+do>&src=source-google-patents

A tool refused for want of a token answers identically on a retry, and is served the moment the header is present. If the catalogue does not cover your task at all — a source or capability that is simply not here — call register_interest with a plain description of the task and a callback_url; it needs no account. Full instructions: /agents.md. Every page here has a markdown twin — append .md to any path, or send Accept: text/markdown.

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<your real query>",
    "sources": ["google-patents"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

This runs against an account — send Authorization: Bearer <token> with the call. Get one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens; the free tier needs no card, and it reaches google-patents like every other source.

Routing guidance

What an agent reads to decide whether google-patents is the right source, and what to reach for when it is not.

Answers: What a company has claimed as invention, and when. Filing patterns reveal R&D direction two to three years before product, which is earlier than any other public signal.
Query shape: A phrase, assignee, inventor or classification code, with date ranges.
Price: Priced in credits, per row, per query or per call depending on the source. Every call is quoted before it runs — `cost_estimate` returns the exact figure and spends nothing. See /pricing.
Latency: Moderate.
Prefer instead: `patents` for authoritative office records. `trademarks` when the question is naming rather than invention.
Cannot answer: Whether a patent is enforceable, licensed, or being litigated.
Caveat: Publication lags filing by around eighteen months. Absence today is not absence of filing.