Patent Literature SearchCAUTION
Search global patents across WIPO, EPO, USPTO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO and other authorities, together with scientific literature from PubMed, arXiv, Nature, Science and other major sources using natural-language, semantic, keyword and structured search.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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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.
To explore Patsnap data interactively, try Eureka, Patsnap's AI-native R&D assistant. To access data programmatically, use the MCP servers or REST API via Patsnap Open Platform.
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 scien
1b4bd105c3d3OBSERVED · 2026-10-06Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control. Replace the environment placeholders with a token scoped to the least it needs.
claude mcp add patent-literature-search-mcp --env PATSNAP_TEST_API_KEY=${PATSNAP_TEST_API_KEY} -- npx -y @patsnap/[email protected]{
"mcpServers": {
"patent-literature-search-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@patsnap/[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"PATSNAP_TEST_API_KEY": "${PATSNAP_TEST_API_KEY}"
}
}
}
}Exposed tools (2)
2 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
patsnap_fetch | read | |
patsnap_search | read |
Trust audit
CAUTIONgrade B · trust 89/100 Install with care. The audit found things worth knowing before you trust its output.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | FAIL |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (1)
Replace `YOUR_API_KEY` with your Patsnap Open Platform API key.
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
1b4bd105c3d3full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/patsnap__patent-literature-search.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | 1b4bd105c3d3 | CAUTION | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the Patent Literature Search MCP server?
Search global patents across WIPO, EPO, USPTO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO and other authorities, together with scientific literature from PubMed, arXiv, Nature, Science and other major sources using natural-language, semantic, keyword and structured search.
What tools does Patent Literature Search expose?
2 in total: 2 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is Patent Literature Search safe to connect to an agent?
With care. The audit graded it B (89/100) and found 1 thing worth knowing before you trust this server, listed below with the exact line each was found on.
What credentials does Patent Literature Search need?
It reads PATSNAP_TEST_API_KEY from the environment. Give it a token scoped to the least it needs — an agent that can be talked into calling a tool can be talked into calling it with your credentials.
How does Patent Literature Search run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @patsnap/patent-literature-search-mcp at 1.2.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (1b4bd105c3d3), read on 2026-10-06. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.