IPNEX MCP

Provides cited, confidence-stamped patent intelligence over US university technology transfer out-licensing. It allows agents to search for licensable intellectual property from specific institutions and retrieve full published views of TTO dockets, including ownership signals and licensability scores.

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Community listingStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-07Published by Engrossa

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp

Vendor documentation

What its tools do

2 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

2 of 2 have a description · 0 of 2 declare behavior hints · 2 of 2 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

Passed Endpoint answered the live check · Nov 7, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC
Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

Search for currently active US university IP licensable from a specific institution
Retrieve the full published view of a technology transfer office docket
Filter patent results by ownership and licensability status

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.2.0

mcp-registry: io.github.engrossa/ipnex@0.2.0

Protocol and capabilities

Server: ipnex 0.2.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check: 2024-11-05
Tools: 2 advertised
Resources: Not advertised
Resource templates: Not advertised
Prompts: Not advertised

Server-advertised capabilities

{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

IPNEX serves cited, confidence-stamped patent intelligence over US university technology-transfer (TTO) out-licensing: each marketed technology joined to its real patent picture -- current assignee, live legal status, expected expiry. Call 'search_licensable_ip' to find currently-licensable IP (filter by institution, status, keyword, min_confidence, and licensable_from_institution); call 'get_technology' for the full published view of one TTO docket (point-in-time via 'as_of'). Every result carries an 'ownership' signal -- whether the patent's current assignee of record is the marketing institution or a third party (the patent may not be licensable from that university); set licensable_from_institution=true to exclude the third-party cases. Every result also carries a 'status' interpretation -- the honest reading of the legal status, distinguishing a term-expired patent (public_domain=true: in the public domain, free to practise, nothing left to license) from a revivable fee lapse or a still in-force patent -- and an 'expiry' reading: how many years of exclusive term remain (years_remaining) as of a reference date, and whether it is expired / expiring_soon (under ~2 years left) / active_term, so you can tell a patent marketed as live but nearly out of term from one with two decades to run (status says whether a right exists; expiry says how long it lasts). Each result also carries a 'licensability' score: a gated 0-100 read of whether it is actually licensable, composed from those same ownership + in-force + remaining-term facts (each component shown openly; indicative when an input is unknown). A search response also carries 'facets' -- corpus-level breakdowns over all matches by ownership (institution-owned vs assigned-away / third-party / unknown), by institution, by status (in force vs lapsed vs other vs unknown), by status_detail (the finer split: term-expired vs fee-lapsed vs reinstated ...), and by expiry (expired / expiring_soon / active_term / unknown) -- so you can read the whole-corpus split for a query without paging every result. Every field carries its source citation and a confidence score; unresolved fields are omitted, never guessed -- an unknown docket returns {"found": false}, not an error. Patent data: Google Patents (CC BY 4.0) + USPTO (public domain). Summaries are IPNEX-authored. TTO listing content is linked, not reproduced.

Tools

2 advertised

search_licensable_ip

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Search published, licensable US university patent technologies. Answers 'what currently-Active US university IP is licensable from X?'. Every result is cited (Google Patents / USPTO), confidence-stamped, and carries an 'ownership' signal flagging whether the patent's current assignee of record is the marketing institution or a third party, a 'status' interpretation flagging public-domain (term-expired) vs revivable fee-lapsed vs in-force patents, and an 'expiry' reading of how many years of exclusive term remain (expired / expiring_soon / active_term). The response also carries 'facets' -- corpus-level breakdowns over all matches by ownership, institution, status, status_detail, and expiry (the whole-query split, without paging). Patent data: Google Patents (CC BY 4.0) + USPTO (public domain). Summaries are IPNEX-authored. TTO listing content is linked, not reproduced.

search_licensable_ip input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Max results to return (confidence-sorted)."
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Legal-status substring, e.g. 'Active', 'Expired'."
    },
    "keyword": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Substring matched against the title and our summary."
    },
    "institution": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Marketing institution substring, e.g. 'Wisconsin', 'Stanford'."
    },
    "min_confidence": {
      "type": "number",
      "maximum": 1,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Drop results below this join confidence (0-1)."
    },
    "licensable_from_institution": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "When true, exclude hits whose patent's current assignee of record is positively not the marketing institution (assigned-away or third-party owned); honest-unknowns are kept. Default false."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

get_technology

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Fetch the published view of one technology by its TTO docket. Cited + confidence-stamped; point-in-time via 'as_of'. Patent data: Google Patents (CC BY 4.0) + USPTO (public domain). Summaries are IPNEX-authored. TTO listing content is linked, not reproduced.

get_technology input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "docket"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "as_of": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO-8601 timestamp for the point-in-time published view."
    },
    "docket": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The TTO docket id, e.g. 'P160232US05', 'S17-467'."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks: 1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency: 635 ms
95th percentile latency: 635 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

Nov 7, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC · probe · passed · 635 ms · metadata changed · 2 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http ipnex-mcp https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add ipnex-mcp --url https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable ipnex-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipnex-mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipnex-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start ipnex-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "ipnex-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http ipnex-mcp https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.

Claude Desktop configuration

https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipnex-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://api.ipnex.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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