EPO Patent Search Skill

Search European patents using the EPO Open Patent Services (OPS) API and Google BigQuery with EP country filtering.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when users ask to:

• Search for European patents
• Find EP prior art for a technology
• Check legal status of EP patents
• Explore patent families across jurisdictions
• Conduct EP freedom-to-operate analysis
• Research the EP patent landscape for a technology area
• Get full-text EP claims or descriptions

What This Skill Does

Provides access to European patent data through two methods: