# PatentPulse Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Landscape

> PatentPulse Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Landscape is a paid API for AI agents from patentpulse-self.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the standard essential patent landscape for a given technology standard, including SEP holders, patent pools, and FRAND licensing context.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://patentpulse-self.vercel.app/api/patent/sep
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/patentpulse-standard-essential-patent-sep-landscape-7e6c3602
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__lVjlPRQ7_zsPOLGyxaaJ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability patentpulse-standard-essential-patent-sep-landscape-7e6c3602
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the standard essential patent landscape for 5G NR — I need to know who the major SEP holders are, which patent pools are involved, and what the FRAND licensing context looks like?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs to understand the SEP landscape for a specific technology standard — particularly for licensing negotiations, FRAND analysis, standards compliance research, or competitive IP intelligence in telecoms and consumer electronics. Prefer this over general patent search when the query is specifically about declared standard essential patents and their licensing obligations.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported technology standard returns empty or error response
- Ambiguous standard name may return incomplete results
- Payment failure (402) if USDC payment is not attached
- Rate limiting if called too frequently
- Stale data if SEP declarations have recently changed

## How this service works

Standard essential patent (SEP) landscape / FRAND licensing / patent-pool lookup for a technical standard (5G, WiFi6, HEVC, H.264, AV1, USB-C, LTE, NFC, MP3, AAC, and more). Returns major SEP holders, patent pools, royalty/licensing dynamics, and related patents. For IP and licensing agents. Worldwide.

## Output

A structured dataset of standard essential patent holders for the queried technology standard, including patent pool memberships, declared SEP counts by assignee, and FRAND licensing context such as royalty frameworks and licensing commitments.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "standard"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "lang": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "lang"
  },
  "standard": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Technology standard"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

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