This connects Claude to the USPTO's patent database, giving you programmatic access to patent application searches, PTAB trial proceedings, and petition decisions. You'd reach for this when you need to pull patent data directly into your workflow instead of manually searching the USPTO website. It exposes search operations across different USPTO datasets, so you can query patent applications by number or criteria, look up PTAB trials, and retrieve petition decision documents. Useful for patent research, prior art searches, or building tools that need to reference official patent office records without scraping web pages.
claude mcp add --transport stdio cyanheads-uspto-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/uspto-mcp-server