Patent & Literature Search MCP

Search global patents and scientific literature in natural language, directly inside Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool. The MCP supports semantic, keyword, BM25, and structured search, then retrieves selected records as AI-readable Markdown.

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About Patsnap

Patsnap is a global innovation intelligence platform covering patents, scientific literature, chemistry, life sciences, and other R&D data.

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What It Does

Patent & Literature Search MCP gives your AI agent direct access to Patsnap's patent and academic-literature databases. A single natural-language research request can cover both corpora and combine the results for AI reasoning.

• Patent search — keyword, assignee, inventor, IPC class, legal status, date range, and citation filters
• Literature search — semantic and keyword search across peer-reviewed scientific papers
• Cross-domain research — orchestrate patent and paper searches using the same tool and combine the structured results for AI reasoning
• Natural language input — describe your problem or topic in plain English or Chinese; the MCP constructs the search strategy
• Precision filtering — filter by assignee, inventor, legal status, jurisdiction, date range, and citation count simultaneously

Data Coverage

This MCP is backed by Patsnap's global patent and scientific-literature coverage.

Patent coverage

Data-source group	Representative sources	Coverage
International and regional authorities	WIPO/PCT, EPO, ARIPO, EAPO, OAPI, GCC	Applications, grants, and regional records
Major national authorities	USPTO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO, DPMA, INPI, UKIPO, CIPO, IP Australia	Applications, grants, designs, and utility models where applicable
Additional jurisdictions	Patent authorities across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa	Bibliographic records and authority-supported document types

Patent data coverage includes:

Data type	What it covers
Bibliography	Publication and application identifiers, titles, dates, applicants, assignees, inventors, and classifications
Full text	Abstracts, claims, descriptions, and other document text
PDF	Original patent-document coverage for supported authorities
Legal events	Status changes and patent lifecycle events
File wrapper	Available prosecution and examination records
License	Available patent licensing records
Litigation	Available patent litigation records

Coverage is refreshed frequently, with patent data updated daily.

Scientific-literature coverage