niche · -0.3 market industry

Patents

Score 18.1 / 100 26 providers +3 via APIs 17 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Intellectual Property Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: PatentPatents

Providers using this tag (26)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 9 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (15)

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 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (3)

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.

NASA Open APIs PitchBook University of Warsaw

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
29.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Intellectual Property 16 co-occurrences Patent Search 5 co-occurrences Trademarks 5 co-occurrences Legal Tech 10 co-occurrences Legal 5 co-occurrences Research 6 co-occurrences Data 5 co-occurrences Search 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag26
Api tag17
Openapi tag5
Openapi op tag11

Cohort brief

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The 24 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
24
all scored
Mean Kin Score
26
+3 vs catalog 23
Mean Agent Readiness
17.7
+5.5 vs catalog 12.2
Spread
3.2–74.7
median 25.4 · σ 18.6
How the 24 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 1Developing 3Thin 7Emerging 5Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 31.9 26.5 +5.4 24
Contract Governance 10.7 6.3 +4.4 24
Discoverability 60.3 58 +2.3 24
Developer Ergonomics 25.4 23.3 +2.1 24
Contract Quality 19.3 17.8 +1.5 24
Operational Transparency 13.7 13.8 -0.1 24

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) 38% 15% +23
MCP server (first-party) 33% 13% +20
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 29% 12% +17
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 17% 13% +4

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 74.7
  2. 2 Serper 56.3
  3. 3 Space Frontiers 50.3
  4. 4 Dimensions 47.9
  5. 5 Patsnap 44.9
  6. 6 Patlytics 36.7
  7. 7 Lens 32.8
  8. 8 USPTO 31.9
  9. 9 Lex Machina 29.9
  10. 10 US Patent and Trademark Office 29
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Space Frontiers 61.4
  2. 2 Lex Machina 47.1
  3. 3 Dimensions 37.6
  4. 4 Clarivate 33.6
  5. 5 DeepIP 30.6
  6. 6 Serper 30.3
  7. 7 Patlytics 30.2
  8. 8 Patsnap 26.2
  9. 9 GlobalData 23
  10. 10 Stilta 23
All 26 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 26 September 2026, across 27598 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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