USPTO Patent Citation MCP Server

Provides access to USPTO enriched citation and office action citation APIs with smart context reduction and progressive disclosure workflows for patent citation analysis.

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// key findings

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10 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

10 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: USPTO_API_KEY, INTERNAL_AUTH_SECRET

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configAPP_ENV

configENVIRONMENT

🔐 secretUSPTO_API_KEY— "": "your_actual_api_key_here"

configMCP_APP_EXTRA_DOMAINS

configFASTMCP_TRANSPORT— http uv run uspto-enriched-citation-mcp

🔐 secretINTERNAL_AUTH_SECRET

configLOG_DIR

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code hash: 745ff5586f9a31fc0340e95e4383f0d5d1c3f5f3d42e9244c292767c176d774b

verified: 6/18/2026, 11:00:01 AM

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