Uspto Office Actions MCP server

@pipeworx/uspto-office-actions

USPTO patent prosecution history — office action full text, examiner/applicant citations (plus AI/ML-extracted "enriched citation" metadata), claim-level rejection data (35 U.S.C. 101/102/103/112), and Commissioner final decisions on patent application petitions.

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Tools

actions on an application: action type, mail date, examiner employee number, art unit, newest first.

• searchofficeactions(applicationnumber | patentnumber, limit) — office

one office action's full text, its length, and a truncation flag.

• getofficeactiontext(documentid | (applicationnumber + maildate)) —

rejection data: AGGREGATE counts of 101/102/103/112/double-patenting rejection records first, per-record detail last.

• getofficeactionrejections(applicationnumber, limit) — claim-level

in office actions, who cited them (examiner vs applicant), plus the AI/ML-extracted enriched-citation fields (category code, claim/paragraph passage mapping) when USPTO has them for that citation.

• getofficeactioncitations(applicationnumber, limit) — references cited

decided_before, limit, offset) — Commissioner / Office of Petitions final decisions: decision type, decision date, petition type, deciding office.

• searchpetitiondecisions(query | applicationnumber, decidedafter,

Auth

Platform key (PLATFORMUSPTOKEY) with BYO override via _apiKey. Get a free key at https://data.uspto.gov/myodp. As of 2026-10, USPTO requires ID.me identity verification plus four profile fields on new/renewed ODP accounts — a BYO key from an account that has not completed that will read as rejected even though it is correctly formatted.

Data sources

domain, CC0 mark). Covers published office actions starting with the 12-million application series.

• USPTO, Open Data Portal — Office Action Text Retrieval dataset (public

• USPTO, Open Data Portal — Office Action Citations dataset.
• USPTO, Open Data Portal — Office Action Rejection dataset.
• USPTO, Open Data Portal — Enriched Citation (AI/ML-extracted) dataset.
• USPTO, Open Data Portal — Final Petition Decisions dataset.

Name the publisher and dataset only, never a route — the exact endpoints live in src/index.ts.

Notes

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.