Overview

IP Author's MCP server lets your AI assistant, such as Claude, ChatGPT, or any other tool that supports MCP, answer real patent questions using our patent database and analysis tools directly inside your conversation. You do not need to open a separate website or copy results back and forth. You ask a question in plain English, and your assistant uses our tools to find the answer.

What it can do

Once connected, your assistant can:

• Search a database of over 183 million patent records from around the world
• Find prior art for a new invention, and check if it is genuinely novel
• Run a freedom to operate check for a product you are planning to launch
• Build a patent landscape report for a technology area or a competitor
• Build a claim chart showing whether a specific patent covers a specific product
• Check if a patent is essential to a technical standard
• Look up the full prosecution history of a US patent application, including office actions, how claims changed over time, and what arguments were made
• Compare two patent examiners
• Download patent documents in bulk

Who it is for

Patent attorneys, in-house counsel, R&D teams, and anyone who needs fast, sourced answers about patents without learning a new tool.

Where to go next

If you have not connected yet, go to Connecting and Login. If you are already connected, go to What You Can Ask for example questions to try.