# Google Patents Details by Number: status, dates, CPC, citations (`steadydata/google-patent-details`) Actor

One structured record per patent publication number from Google Patents, up to 200 per run: title, abstract, assignee, country, priority, filing and publication dates, legal status and expiry, claim count, CPC codes and citation counts. No inventor names. Pay per delivered patent.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/steadydata/google-patent-details.md
- **Developed by:** [Steadydata Team](https://apify.com/steadydata) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 patent delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Patents Details by Number: status, dates, CPC, citations

One structured record per patent publication number from Google Patents, up to 200 per run: title, abstract, assignee, country, priority, filing and publication dates, legal status and expiry, claim count, CPC codes and citation counts. No inventor names. Pay per delivered patent.

### Why this scraper

- **Only delivered results are charged.** Inputs that fail come back as clear error
  records at no cost.
- **Measured on real documents from three offices** (US, EP, WO, 15 September 2026): title,
  assignee, dates, legal status, claim count, CPC codes and citation counts all read
  server-side, without a browser. The claim markup differs per office and both forms are
  handled and tested.
- **No inventor names.** Patents are public records, but inventors are people; this actor
  delivers the assignee (a company) and leaves the persons out. That keeps the data
  usable in any jurisdiction without a privacy review.
- **By number only, by design.** Google's robots.txt allows the document pages and forbids
  the search pages, so this actor reads exactly what is allowed. Bring your own numbers
  (from a watch list, a portfolio, a citation list) and get a clean record for each.

### Who this is for

Patent analysts, IP teams and competitive-intelligence work that already has lists of
publication numbers and needs them enriched fast: legal status and expiry for a portfolio
review, CPC codes for landscaping, citation counts as a rough impact signal, assignee and
dates for a timeline. Up to 200 numbers per run, one record each.

### Who this is not for

- **You want to search by keyword, assignee or CPC.** Not possible on the allowed route;
  this actor needs the publication numbers as input.
- **You need the full claims text, the description or the drawings.** Only counts and
  metadata are delivered; the document itself stays on Google Patents (the `url` field).
- **You need inventor names.** Deliberately not delivered.

### Input example

```json
{
    "patents": [
        "US10000000B2",
        "EP3000000B1",
        "WO2020000001A1"
    ],
    "language": "en"
}
```

### Output fields

- `publicationNumber`
- `title`
- `abstract`
- `assignee`
- `assigneeCurrent`
- `countryCode`
- `priorityDate`
- `filingDate`
- `publicationDate`
- `legalStatus`
- `expirationDate`
- `claimCount`
- `cpcCodes`
- `citationsBackward`
- `citationsForward`
- `url`

### Output example

```json
{
    "publicationNumber": "US10000000B2",
    "title": "Coherent LADAR using intra-pixel quadrature detection",
    "abstract": "A frequency modulated (coherent) laser detection and ranging system includes a read-out integrated circuit formed with a two-dimensional arr...",
    "assignee": "Raytheon Co",
    "assigneeCurrent": "Raytheon Co",
    "countryCode": "US",
    "priorityDate": "2015-03-10",
    "filingDate": "2015-03-10",
    "publicationDate": "2018-06-19",
    "legalStatus": "Active",
    "expirationDate": "2036-05-13",
    "claimCount": 20,
    "cpcCodes": [
        "G01S7/00",
        "G01S7/48",
        "G01S7/483",
        "G01S7/486",
        "..."
    ],
    "citationsBackward": 5,
    "citationsForward": 14,
    "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US10000000B2/en",
    "status": "ok"
}
```

Error codes: `INVALID_NUMBER` (not a publication number), `NOT_FOUND` (Google Patents has no
such document), `BLOCKED` (consent or bot wall after retries), `FETCH_FAILED`. None is charged.

### Related actors from steadydata

- [website-tech-stack](https://apify.com/steadydata/website-tech-stack): what the assignee's website runs on
- [google-trends-batch](https://apify.com/steadydata/google-trends-batch): whether interest in the technology is rising
- [google-news](https://apify.com/steadydata/google-news): news coverage of the assignee or the technology

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `patent-delivered` event per delivered result. No charge for inputs
that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

**Free Apify plan:** this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free
plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the
actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full
size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

**Reviews:** if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that
helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

### FAQ

**Which numbers work?** Any publication number Google Patents knows: US10000000B2,
EP3000000B1, WO2020000001A1, CN, JP, KR and others. A full patents.google.com URL is fine too.
Numbers are normalised (spaces, dashes and lowercase are accepted).

**What does `legalStatus` contain?** Google's own status label: Active, Ceased, Expired,
Pending, Withdrawn. `expirationDate` is present when Google shows one (granted patents).

**Why is `claimCount` sometimes lower than I expected?** It counts the numbered claims on
the page. Applications published without claims on Google Patents get 0.

**What happens with a number that does not exist?** A `NOT_FOUND` error record and no
charge. Blocked requests are retried on a fresh exit before they are reported.

**Is any personal data collected?** No. Inventor names are on the page and are deliberately
left out; the assignee is an organisation.

**Is personal data collected?**
No. Inventor names are deliberately left out; only the assignee (an organisation) is delivered.

**What happens when the source changes?**
Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is
monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because
only delivered results cost anything.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/steadydata/google-patent-details/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `patents` (type: `array`):

One per row, up to 200, as on Google Patents: US10000000B2, EP3000000B1, WO2020000001A1. A full patents.google.com URL is accepted too.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language for title and abstract, when Google has it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "patents": [
    "US10000000B2",
    "EP3000000B1",
    "WO2020000001A1"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "patents": [
        "US10000000B2",
        "EP3000000B1",
        "WO2020000001A1"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steadydata/google-patent-details").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "patents": [
        "US10000000B2",
        "EP3000000B1",
        "WO2020000001A1",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steadydata/google-patent-details").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "patents": [
    "US10000000B2",
    "EP3000000B1",
    "WO2020000001A1"
  ]
}' |
apify call steadydata/google-patent-details --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,steadydata/google-patent-details"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/aJv3lvYtgbgzjMzlK/builds/CK1PXpRK71FJqFbuQ/openapi.json