# Google Patents Search via Serper

> Google Patents Search via Serper is a paid API for AI agents from Serper at mpp.orthogonal.com, paid per call via MPP, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Searches Google Patents and returns patent results including titles, patent numbers, inventors, assignees, and filing dates

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mpp.orthogonal.com/serper/patents?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: Serper
- Docs: https://google.serper.dev
- Website: https://google.serper.dev
- Tags: google, serp, search, web
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/serper-google-patents-search-via-serper-30806e74
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DkYzUW0pAEjQINh-OUZdP

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 serper-google-patents-search-via-serper-30806e74 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Google Patents for 'transformer neural network architecture' and show me the top results including patent numbers, inventors, assignees, and filing dates.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search Google Patents specifically for patent documents, prior art research, inventor lookups, or assignee-based patent discovery. Prefer this over Google Scholar for patent-specific structured data (patent numbers, assignees, filing dates) rather than academic citations. Choose this over a general web search when you specifically need structured patent metadata.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query returns no results or an error
- Very obscure or misspelled query returns zero results
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded returns an error response
- Invalid API key or authentication failure returns 401/403
- Network timeout if Serper service is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Google Patents search - returns patent results with titles, patent numbers, inventors, assignees, filing dates, publication dates, and abstracts. Use for IP research, prior art searches, or technology landscape analysis. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

## Output

Returns a list of patent results from Google Patents, each including the patent title, patent number, inventor names, assignee organization, filing date, and a snippet or abstract describing the invention, along with a link to the full patent.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/serper-google-patents-search-via-serper-30806e74/health.json
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