EPC Patent Search

by RobThePCGuy

EPC Patent Search is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by RobThePCGuy in Claude-Patent-Creator.

179 stars27 forkson RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-CreatorAdded 2026/09/07+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/24

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Install EPC Patent Search

Copy EPC Patent Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator/tree/main/skills/epc-search ~/.claude/skills/epc-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/epc-search/SKILL.md in RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/epc-search
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What EPC Patent Search does

EPC Patent Search runs RAG queries across the European Patent Convention, EPO Guidelines, and PCT rules for patent law research. Use it to find legal basis, compare EPO and USPTO practice, and pull relevant provisions by topic.

EPC Patent Search is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. EPC Patent Search comes from a repository tagged bigquery, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, faiss and mcp-server.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

EPC/PCT Legal Search Skill

Hybrid RAG search across the European Patent Convention (EPC), EPO Guidelines for Examination, and PCT Rules for patent law research.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when users ask to:

Find EPC articles or rules on a specific topic
Search EPO Guidelines for Examination
Look up PCT rules or Administrative Instructions
Compare EPC requirements with USPTO/MPEP practice
Research EPO Board of Appeal case law principles
Understand European patent prosecution procedure
Find legal basis for EPO examination objections

What This Skill Does

Provides legal research across European and international patent law:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about EPC Patent Search

What else does RobThePCGuy publish alongside EPC Patent Search?
EPC Patent Search is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BigQuery Patent Search, Development Assistant and EPO Patent Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way EPC Patent Search does, and is maintained by RobThePCGuy in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator page.
How does EPC Patent Search compare to other AI Engineering skills?
EPC Patent Search ranks #3105 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of EPC Patent Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.