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Which MCP servers are Invention Village's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-13

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Whose server it is
  • Addresshttps://thesmartpatent.com/api/mcpnot in the official registry: answered when asked

No entry in the official MCP registry names this server. It answered on thesmartpatent.com when the Atlas asked at the address servers are usually mounted on, so it is the vendor's own. Clients and catalogues that list servers from the registry do not show it.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-27
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-27
  • Tools3
  • Server calls itselfinvention-village
  • Server version1.0.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-27 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 240 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.
  • Checked on 1 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 1, the first on 2026-10-27
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 1 so far
  • Answeredmeasuring1 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer310 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 705 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (3), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsB · 83 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 3 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Not saying whether it only reads or can destroy: 3 of 3

What an agent can do with it

  • not sure · Assess whether a technical solution can be patented in multiple jurisdictions.
  • not sure · Plan R&D validation work based on gaps in existing patent literature.
  • not sure · Draft a complete patent application for attorney review.

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers3 tools · read 2026-10-27
  • verify_patent_number

    Check whether patent numbers actually exist in our CN/US patent databases, and return the real title and dates for the ones that do. Use this before citing any patent number, especially one you generated or recalled from memory. Returns…

  • check_patent_text_fabrication

    Run deterministic (zero-LLM) checks over patent-related text and return a list of items that a human must verify: patent numbers that do not resolve, quotations that cannot be located in the cited document, experimental or performance…

  • search_prior_art

    Semantic search over CN and US patent databases. Give a natural-language description of a technical idea and get back real, existing patents with titles, numbers, dates and links. Use this to ground any claim about what already exists…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thesmartpatent": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thesmartpatent.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http thesmartpatent https://thesmartpatent.com/api/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://thesmartpatent.com/api/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.