EPO Patent Search

by RobThePCGuy

EPO Patent Search is a Data 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 EPO Patent Search

Copy EPO 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/epo-patent-search ~/.claude/skills/epo-patent-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/epo-patent-search/SKILL.md in RobThePCGuy/Claude-Patent-Creator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/epo-patent-search
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 796 skills

What EPO Patent Search does

EPO Patent Search finds European patents with BigQuery and the EPO OPS API. Use it for prior art, legal status, patent families, and freedom-to-operate analysis.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

EPO Patent Search Skill

Search European patents using the EPO Open Patent Services (OPS) API and Google BigQuery with EP country filtering.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when users ask to:

Search for European patents
Find EP prior art for a technology
Check legal status of EP patents
Explore patent families across jurisdictions
Conduct EP freedom-to-operate analysis
Research the EP patent landscape for a technology area
Get full-text EP claims or descriptions

What This Skill Does

Provides access to European patent data through two methods:

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

Frequently asked about EPO Patent Search

What else does RobThePCGuy publish alongside EPO Patent Search?
EPO 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 EPC Patent Search. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way EPO 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 EPO Patent Search compare to other Data skills?
EPO Patent Search ranks #734 by stars among the 796 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. 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 EPO Patent Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.