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EPO OPS — European patents

Name: EPO OPS — European patents
License: CC-BY-4.0

EPO Open Patent Services (OPS) is the European Patent Office's open API for searching and retrieving bibliographic data from more than 130 million patents, including all Norwegian EP and PCT publications. Common Query Language (CQL) supports searching by title, applicant, inventor, IPC class and publication number. Applicant mapping against Norwegian Brreg enables IP-portfolio analysis per organisation number.

130.0M rows

Data volume

Weekly

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /search

{
  "data": "..."
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

epo_patent_biblio

epo_patents_by_applicant

epo_search

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "epo-ops": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/epo-ops",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

API endpoints

GET

/search

CQL-søk i patentregisteret

q required: CQL-uttrykk, f.eks. ti=hydrogen, pa="Equinor AS", in=Andersen q=ti=hydrogen
limit optional: Antall treff (1–100, standard 25). Klemmes til intervallet; en ikke-numerisk eller ikke-positiv verdi faller til standarden. limit=25

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/search?q=ti%3Dhydrogen
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/search?q=ti%3Dhydrogen"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/patent/{patentNumber}

Full bibliografi for ett patent

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/patent/{patentNumber}
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/patent/{patentNumber}"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/by-applicant

Patenter per applicant (navnesøk). MERK: orgnr-modusen krever et Brreg-oppslag som ikke er wiret i noe lag — bruk `name`.

name required: Applicant-navn slik det står i patentregisteret. Uten denne svarer ruta 400 (se merknaden om orgnr-modusen over). name=Equinor AS
limit optional: Antall treff (1–100, standard 25). Klemmes til intervallet; en ikke-numerisk eller ikke-positiv verdi faller til standarden. limit=25

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/by-applicant?name=Equinor%20AS
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/by-applicant?name=Equinor%20AS"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/health

Status og kvote-info

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/health
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/epo-ops/health"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

EPO OPS — European patents is openly available — create an account to get started.

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