INPI MCP Server - French Company Legal Data + Patents for AI Agents

Apify-hosted MCP server giving AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Continue) instant access to French company legal data (RNE - Registre National des Entreprises) and French + European patents (INPI + EPO/OEB). Search by SIREN, applicant, keyword, or publication number. No API key, no proxy, free official government data. $0.01 per tool call.

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What is the INPI MCP Server?

The INPI MCP Server is an Apify actor implementing the Model Context Protocol for French legal and intellectual-property data. It exposes 6 tools your AI agent can call to look up the legal status of any French company and explore its patent portfolio.

It is backed by two free official French government APIs - no API key, no rate-limit headaches, no proxy:

• recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr - RNE company legal data (legal form, officers, registration acts, headquarters).
• data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr - the official INPI/OEB patents dataset (French INPI + European EPO filings, linked to company SIREN).

Use it standalone via the Apify API, or wire it into Claude Desktop / Cursor / Continue.dev as an MCP server to give your agent live French legal + IP intelligence.

Use cases

• IP due-diligence agents - pull a target company's full patent portfolio + legal status in one call before an acquisition or investment.
• Legal / KYC copilots - verify legal form, officers (dirigeants), RNE registration date and administrative status from a SIREN.
• Patent intelligence bots - map who is filing patents in a technology domain, by applicant or keyword, across France and the EPO.
• Competitive R&D monitoring - track a competitor's patent output by year and technology domain.
• Innovation scoring / VC screening - enrich a French company record with its patent count and tech focus.

Tools available

Tool	What it returns
search_company_acts(query, limit)	French companies + their RNE legal profile and key registry acts
get_company_legal(siren)	One full legal record: legal form, officers, status, HQ, VAT
search_patents(query, limit, year)	Patents by keyword/applicant (INPI + EPO/OEB)
get_patent(publication_number)	One full patent record by publication number
company_patents(siren, limit)	A company's full patent portfolio by SIREN
company_ip_portfolio(siren)	Combined legal + patent portfolio with tech/year breakdowns
list_tools	Free - schema discovery

Input

{
  "mode": "call_tool",
  "tool_name": "company_ip_portfolio",
  "arguments": { "siren": "552067092" }
}

Set mode: "list_tools" to get the full input schema for every tool - that call is free.

Output

{
  "siren": "552067092",
  "company": {
    "name": "COMPAGNIE GERVAIS DANONE",
    "legal_form": "Societe anonyme (SA)",
    "administrative_status": "active",
    "officers": [{ "last_name": "...", "role": "Administrateur" }]
  },
  "patents": {
    "total": 179,
    "top_technology_domains": { "Chimie": 41, "Instruments": 12 },
    "patents_by_year": { "2014": 9, "2015": 11 },
    "items": [{ "publication_number": "EP2833898", "applicants": ["Compagnie Gervais Danone"] }]
  }
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT - $0.01 per tool call (= $10 per 1,000). Free actor starts. The list_tools discovery call is free. No charge if a tool returns an error or an empty result.

Coverage and data sources

• Company legal data comes from the RNE (Registre National des Entreprises, operated by INPI) via the free recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr endpoint - 26M+ French companies, daily updates.
• Patents come from the official INPI/OEB dataset (fr-esr-brevets-france-inpi-oeb): French INPI filings + European patents (EPO/OEB), each linked to the applicant's SIREN, with technology domain, IPC codes and an Espacenet deep link.

FAQ

Does this cover trademarks (marques)? Not currently. INPI's trademark/patent diffusion API on data.inpi.fr is account-gated behind Cloudflare and requires a registered INPI technical account, and the only fully-open trademark export is a multi-gigabyte static file that cannot be queried per request. This server therefore covers the fully-open INPI data: RNE company legal acts + the INPI/OEB patent registry. Trademark tools will be added if/when a no-auth INPI marques endpoint becomes available.

What are "acts" here? The open RNE-published registry facts: registration date, last update, administrative status, establishment counts, registered officers. Full scanned acts (statuts, PV, comptes annuels in PDF) require a free INPI account on data.inpi.fr and are not exposed by the open API.

Why MCP instead of a regular scraper? MCP lets an AI agent decide which tool to call dynamically - look up a company, then pivot to its patents - in a single agent loop.

Does it work in Claude Desktop? Yes - wire the Apify actor as an MCP server and your AI agent gets all 6 tools instantly.

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License: MIT - Author: dltik