# UnfoldIP Patent Search MCP Server

UnfoldIP gives Claude direct access to a searchable index of US patents - about 15.2 million documents published 2003 or later, covering both grants and published applications.

Ask in plain language and Claude searches the corpus for you: by keyword or quoted phrase, by assignee or inventor, by publication, filing or priority date. Results come back ranked, with the title, abstract snippet, assignee, dates and a link to the full record on unfoldip.com.

Once a patent is identified, Claude can pull its full text - complete claims and description - so it can answer questions grounded in the actual document rather than a summary.

Typical uses:

- Prior-art scouting. "Find US patents on solid-state battery electrolytes filed since 2023, and tell me which companies are most active."
- Competitive monitoring. "What has Toyota published on hydrogen fuel cells in the last two years?"
- Reading a specific patent. "Get US11394056B2 and summarise its independent claims."
- Landscape questions. "Compare how Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution approach sulfide electrolytes."

Coverage is US-only and begins at 2003; it is not a worldwide database, and coverage is by publication date rather than filing date. Both limits are stated in the tool descriptions so Claude does not overstate what it found.

Both tools are read-only. Connecting grants access to patent search and nothing else - the connector cannot read your account, your API keys, or your other connections. Access can be revoked at any time from your UnfoldIP account.

A free account includes 1,000 tool calls per day.

**Authorization required.** Pod connected on 2026-09-13 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 2 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under [legal](/mcp/for/legal), [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics). Published by [unfoldip.com](https://unfoldip.com/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://unfoldip.com/features/mcp)

## Status

Pod connected to UnfoldIP Patent Search on 2026-09-13. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 553ms.

### Why the tool list is not verified

UnfoldIP Patent Search refuses an anonymous `tools/list`, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

## Tools

Its publisher lists 2 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

- `get_patent`
- `search_patents`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://unfoldip.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unfoldip-patent-search": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://unfoldip.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://unfoldip.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unfoldip-patent-search": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://unfoldip.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used UnfoldIP Patent Search yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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- [Courtroom5](/mcp/courtroom5) — Also in Legal
- [Descrybe Legal Engine](/mcp/descrybe-legal-engine) — Also in Legal
- [General Legal](/mcp/general-legal) — Also in Legal
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- [Mitosis Labs](/mcp/mitosis-labs) — Also in Legal
- [XLSCOUT ClaimChart LLM](/mcp/xlscout-claimchart-llm) — Also in Legal
- [ZTR — Temporal Registry](/mcp/ztr-temporal-registry) — Also in Legal
- [Legal Data Hunter](/mcp/legal-data-hunter) — Also in Legal

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find UnfoldIP Patent Search, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "UnfoldIP Patent Search",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=UnfoldIP Patent Search' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/unfoldip-patent-search.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/unfoldip-patent-search.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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