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Patent References

Retrieve patent documents and non-patent literature cited by one or more patents for prior-art, citation, and technology. Available via REST API or MCP.

MCP tool name

nexscope_patent_references

MCP endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp

JSON-RPC method

tools/call

Authentication

Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE and the mcp:tools scope. API keys remain supported as a compatibility option.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If authentication fails, ask the user to open API Access and copy a valid key.

Call this MCP tool

Initialize an MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP session at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp, then use tools/call.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "patent-references-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nexscope_patent_references",
    "arguments": {
      "patentNumber": "US10123456B2"
    }
  }
}

MCP 2025-11-25 · Streamable HTTP

Progress is delivered on the original POST SSE response. GET SSE carries notifications; reconnecting must query existing asynchronous work rather than submit again.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Description
`patentId`	`string`	optional	One or up to 100 Nexscope patent IDs separated by English commas; maximum 60,000 characters. Takes precedence when both identifiers are provided. Example: patent-id
`patentNumber`	`string`	optional	One or up to 100 publication or grant numbers separated by English commas; maximum 60,000 characters. Example: US10123456B2

Response fields

Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`total`	`integer`	optional	Number of records. Example: {}
`data`	`array`	optional	List of patents with citation details for each element. Example: {}
`columns`	`array`	optional	Rendered column definitions. Example: {}
`costToken`	`integer`	optional	Consume token. Example: {}
`type`	`string`	optional	Rendering style. Example: {}
`patentId`	`string`	optional	Query the patent ID of a patent. Example: {}
`pn`	`string`	optional	Check the patent’s publication (announcement) number. Example: {}
`citedPatents`	`array`	optional	List of cited patents. Example: {}
`citedOthers`	`array`	optional	List of cited non-patent documents. Example: {}

Examples

Example arguments

{
  "patentNumber": "US10123456B2"
}

Example structuredContent

{}