Patent Gap

com.dropwatchhqPublished by dropwatchhq.comOfficial publisherv1.0.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Off-patent opportunity feed: expiring design patents, recall + supplier screened, for sellers.

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VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableFinance Business & Commerce

Server details

Identifier: com.dropwatchhq/patent-gap
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Runtime: Web executable
Trust: Verified
Published: Sep 16, 2026

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Lets an assistant browse expiring US design patents and screen individual patents for freedom-to-operate signals relevant to private-label sellers.

What you can do: Exposes four tools. list_categories lists the private-label product categories the service tracks. newly_expirable returns a cross-category feed of design patents that just became or are about to become free to make, sorted by soonest expiry and pre-screened for recalls and suppliers. screen_patent screens one US patent by publication number, computing statutory expiry and status, joining CPSC recall-safety data for its category, and running an OFAC/OIG screen on the assignee. category_opportunity_report produces a full ranked off-patent opportunity report for a category.
When to use it: Useful when evaluating private-label product ideas and wanting to know which design patents are expiring, whether a category has recall history, or whether a specific patent's assignee raises sanctions or exclusion concerns. Suited to sourcing and product-selection research rather than legal advice.
Requirements: A remote streamable HTTP endpoint at patentgap.dropwatchhq.com; no packages, environment variables, headers or authentication are declared. The full category report is paid via x402 at $0.03 USDC on Base, so a compatible paying client and wallet funds are needed for that tool; free callers receive only a preview and a payment challenge.

Before you install

category_opportunity_report costs money ($0.03 USDC on Base per call) and requires a wallet able to pay via x402. Outputs are described as a freedom-to-operate read on design-patent scope and explicitly not legal advice, so verify before acting. Screening relies on third-party CPSC recall and OFAC/OIG data and may be incomplete or out of date.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Patent Gap in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

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Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "patent-gap": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://patentgap.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

newly_expirable

Cross-category feed of design patents that just became (or are about to become) free to make — i.e. fresh off-patent private-label opportunities, soonest-expiry first, already recall- and supplier-screened.

Parameterslimit

screen_patent

Screen ONE US patent by publication number (e.g. USD689332S1): compute its statutory expiry/status, join CPSC recall-safety for its category, and run an OFAC/OIG screen on the assignee. Returns the freedom-to-operate read (design-patent scope; not legal advice).

Parameterscategorypublication_numberrequired

category_opportunity_report

PAID (x402, $0.03 USDC on Base). Full off-patent opportunity report for a category slug (see list_categories): every newly-expirable design patent with computed expiry, CPSC recall-safety band, and OFAC/OIG supplier screen, ranked by actionability. Free callers get a preview + x402 challenge.

Parameterslimitcategoryrequired

Version history

v1.0.0LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

72% of the applicable checks met

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Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
Auth declaredRequired10 pts
Tools listedRequired15 pts
DescriptionRequired15 pts
Logo10 pts
Publish an icon in the registry entry.
Documentation15 pts
Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.
LicenseNot applicable
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