Patent Search & Analysis API
Collect patent filing records, claim text, inventor and assignee metadata, citation networks, and prosecution history from public patent databases for IP intelligence and competitive analysis.
How It Works
Query patent databases
Submit search queries against public patent portals to retrieve result listings by keyword, IPC class, or assignee.
Extract patent metadata
Pull patent number, title, abstract, claims, inventors, assignee, filing date, and citation references.
Build IP intelligence datasets
Aggregate data to map competitive patent landscapes, identify technology clusters, and track assignee filings.
Quick Start
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234567B2/en",
"extract": {
"title": "string",
"abstract": "string",
"inventors": "string[]",
"assignee": "string",
"filing_date": "string",
"citations": "string[]"
}
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