One endpoint across three patent authorities, normalised to a single record schema and deduplicated by patent family — with legal status and family expansion built in.
Patent search is fragmented by design. Each authority publishes different fields under different names with different access rules, and the same invention appears repeatedly as separate national filings. Commercial platforms solve this at enterprise seat pricing and lock it inside their own interface.
This service fronts three authorities behind one endpoint, normalises every response into a single record schema, and collapses results to the family level so one invention returns as one result. Family members and legal status events are available directly, so you can answer is this still in force, and where without reaching for a second tool.
Patent APIs throttle aggressively and inconsistently. The adapter reads published throttling headers on every response and paces each service category independently to the announced rate, backing off on explicit retry signals. Because the rate buckets are independent, slow search pacing never blocks faster retrieval calls — and a source that is unavailable or unconfigured is isolated rather than failing the whole query.
This is the difference between a demo and something you can put a workflow behind.
The service is available as a hosted endpoint and as a tool interface that AI systems can call directly, which makes patent landscape work something an agent workflow can perform rather than something a person has to assemble by hand.
Available as a hosted endpoint, an agent-accessible tool, or the data layer beneath IP landscape and freedom-to-operate work.
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