# Competitor Patent Monitor by Assignee

**Use case:** 

Follow what a competitor is filing. Query by company name and the run returns their patents with publication numbers, inventors and dates; schedule it monthly and diff the publication numbers to catch new filings and grants as they publish. Useful for competitive intelligence and R&D planning.

## Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Nestle coffee capsule",
    "Keurig brewing system"
  ],
  "gl": "",
  "hl": "",
  "dateRange": "",
  "maxPages": 3
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "query": {
    "label": "Query",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "type": {
    "label": "Type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "position": {
    "label": "#",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "link": {
    "label": "Link",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "snippet": {
    "label": "Snippet",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Patents Scraper - Patent Search, Inventors & Dates](https://apify.com/zaver.api/google-patents-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/zaver.api/google-patents-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/zaver.api/google-patents-scraper.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).