plugin.json

{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "ip-author",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Search and analyze IP Author's 183M-publication global patent corpus and US prosecution data. \n\u2022 Run guided prior-art, freedom-to-operate, patent-landscape, evidence-of-use, and SEP-essentiality workflows;\n\u2022 Inspect application file wrappers, claims, citations, specifications, and response arguments;\n\u2022 Compare examiners; and \n\u2022 Prepare downloadable research artifacts. \nResults are research support, not legal opinions, and should be reviewed by qualified counsel.",
  "author": {
    "name": "IP Author, Inc."
  },
  "extensions": {
    "com.openai": {
      "interface": {
        "capabilities": [],
        "category": "Data & Analytics",
        "developerName": "IP Author, Inc.",
        "displayName": "IP Author",
        "longDescription": "Search and analyze IP Author's 183M-publication global patent corpus and US prosecution data. \n\u2022 Run guided prior-art, freedom-to-operate, patent-landscape, evidence-of-use, and SEP-essentiality workflows;\n\u2022 Inspect application file wrappers, claims, citations, specifications, and response arguments;\n\u2022 Compare examiners; and \n\u2022 Prepare downloadable research artifacts. \nResults are research support, not legal opinions, and should be reviewed by qualified counsel.",
        "privacyPolicyURL": "https://ipauthor.com/privacy_policy/",
        "shortDescription": "Patent search and analysis",
        "supportURL": "https://ipauthor.com/contact/",
        "termsOfServiceURL": "https://ipauthor.com/terms-of-service/",
        "websiteURL": "https://ipauthor.com/",
        "logo": "./assets/ip-author-icon.png",
        "composerIcon": "./assets/ip-author-icon.png"
      },
      "publication": {
        "release_notes": "Initial public release of the IP Author patent research MCP plugin.",
        "countries": []
      },
      "review": {
        "commerce": false,
        "test_cases": {
          "positive": [
            {
              "description": "Prior-art search for a new invention",
              "prompt": "Using IP Author, search for prior art on a wearable fitness tracker that estimates blood oxygen saturation using green and infrared PPG sensors, with a machine-learning model that compensates for motion artifacts during exercise.",
              "tools_triggered": "prior_art_search",
              "expected_behavior": "IP Author interactively confirms the invention summary, search breadth, and a target date, previews filters and exact search terms for approval, then returns ranked prior art with similarity scores, plain-English relevance notes, and an exportable report option."
            },
            {
              "description": "Competitive landscape scan for a technology area",
              "prompt": "Using IP Author, give me a quick landscape scan of solid-state battery separator patents filed since 2018.",
              "tools_triggered": "landscape",
              "expected_behavior": "IP Author runs this on its own, no approvals needed, and returns one complete summary: total matching patent families, top filing companies, year-over-year filing trend, country breakdown, etc."
            },
            {
              "description": "Invalidity search against a specific patent",
              "prompt": "Using IP Author, find prior art that could invalidate the hinge mechanism claims of patent US-20230103700-A1.",
              "tools_triggered": "prior_art_search",
              "expected_behavior": "Same guided search as a general prior-art search, but scoped to the named patent's claims. It reads the patent's own priority date and uses that as the cutoff, excludes that patent from its own results, and returns ranked invalidating art."
            },
            {
              "description": "Freedom-to-operate screen for a new product",
              "prompt": "Using IP Author, run a freedom-to-operate screen for a robot vacuum that uses LIDAR-based SLAM mapping and automatically empties its dustbin into a base station after each cleaning cycle.",
              "tools_triggered": "freedom_to_operate",
              "expected_behavior": "IP Author screens up to 100 patents. Breaks the product into features, confirms scope, shortlists ~10 enforceable patents for approval, confirms claims to read, then returns a report sorting each as reads-on, arguable, clear, or unresolved, with a not-legal-advice note."
            },
            {
              "description": "Evidence-of-use claim chart against a product",
              "prompt": "Using IP Author, build a claim chart showing whether a foldable smartphone with a flexible display and a mechanical hinge assembly reads on patent US-20230103700-A1.",
              "tools_triggered": "evidence_of_use",
              "expected_behavior": "Confirms claim elements, asks for a target product, searches for public evidence; if none found, it says so honestly instead of fabricating a match. Final chart marks each claim element as present, not shown, or needing a teardown."
            }
          ],
          "negative": [
            {
              "description": "Trademark or brand-name search",
              "prompt": "Search for trademarks similar to the Nike Swoosh logo."
            },
            {
              "description": "Patent litigation / court case lookup",
              "prompt": "Find federal district court litigation records for a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Apple."
            },
            {
              "description": "General consumer product recommendation, not patent-related",
              "prompt": "What's the best robot vacuum cleaner to buy this year?"
            }
          ]
        },
        "demo_recording_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raKDQUOXR6s"
      },
      "apps": "./.app.json"
    }
  }
}