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Patents

Score 17.7 / 100 28 providers +5 via APIs 18 APIs Search apis.io →
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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Intellectual Property Management 3
Variants seen in the corpus: PatentPatents

Providers using this tag (28)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 9 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (18)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Patents” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

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Score breakdown

Frequency
44.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
30.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Intellectual Property 17 co-occurrences Patent Search 5 co-occurrences Trademarks 5 co-occurrences Legal Tech 11 co-occurrences Legal 6 co-occurrences Research 8 co-occurrences Search 10 co-occurrences Open Data 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag18
Provider tag28
Openapi tag6
Openapi op tag13

Cohort brief

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The 25 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Patents, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
25
of 28 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
27.1
+4.3 vs catalog 22.8
Mean Agent Readiness
18.4
+5.1 vs catalog 13.3
Spread
3.4–73.5
median 27 · σ 19.3
How the 25 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 3Developing 1Thin 8Emerging 5Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 33.5 25 +8.5 25
Contract Governance 13 9.4 +3.6 25
Developer Ergonomics 25.3 22.1 +3.2 25
Discoverability 60.8 57.9 +2.9 25
Contract Quality 20.6 18.2 +2.4 25
Operational Transparency 14 12.4 +1.6 25

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 36% 16% +20
MCP server (first-party) 32% 14% +18
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 28% 13% +15
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 40% 35% +5

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Clarivate 73.5
  2. 2 Space Frontiers 62.7
  3. 3 Serper 56.5
  4. 4 Patsnap 55.5
  5. 5 Dimensions 48
  6. 6 Patlytics 36.8
  7. 7 Lex Machina 34.3
  8. 8 claimhit-com 32.7
  9. 9 USPTO 30.1
  10. 10 Lens 29.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Space Frontiers 68.9
  2. 2 Lex Machina 46.6
  3. 3 Dimensions 37.6
  4. 4 Serper 34.1
  5. 5 Clarivate 32.8
  6. 6 DeepIP 30.6
  7. 7 Patlytics 30.2
  8. 8 claimhit-com 27.9
  9. 9 Patsnap 26.8
  10. 10 Google Patents 25.4
All 28 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 25 carry a score (89%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 21 of 25 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 7 November 2026, across 38912 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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