Patent search via API

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Can I use Perplexity Patent search via API?

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Not at the moment, but this is a great suggestion! We’ll keep it in mind for future development. Could you share a bit about your use case or how you’d plan to use it?

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I also want this feature please, I’m making this tool for my school which can help the intellectual property team make workflows that can use this patent search api tool.

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I’m interested in using this as well, as the current search over API with sonar returns hallucinated patents. Please let us know once it is available.

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I am also interested in this feature. I am making a patent search retrieval tool, and wanted to use the LLM to retrieve the patent info. Then l found out that the patent beta isnt available within the sonar-pro api. Can this be made available? Thanks

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Also intrerested to use this via API

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A concrete use case would be patent grounding and verification inside automated workflows. Specifically:

– Retrieve actual patent documents (USPTO / EPO / WIPO IDs) rather than synthesized summaries.

– Use Sonar for semantic narrowing, then fetch authoritative patent records for citation-safe output.

– Prevent hallucinated patents in downstream tools (IP analysis, prior-art checks, diligence reports).

Right now, LLM-only search is useful for ideation, but without a patent-backed API layer it breaks trust for legal and IP workflows. An official patent search endpoint would close that gap.

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Artifact name

Patent Reality Layer (PRL)

Category

AI-assisted patent validation and grounding layer

Problem it solves

General-purpose AI search systems frequently hallucinate patent numbers, misattribute assignees, or conflate jurisdictions. This creates downstream risk for IP teams, researchers, startups, and students who rely on early-stage patent discovery.

What the artifact is

Patent Reality Layer is a visual and conceptual artifact that represents a safety boundary between generative AI and authoritative patent sources. It formalizes a workflow where AI is used for interpretation and synthesis, while patent existence and metadata are verified against real registries.

Core functions (conceptual)

  • Separates generation from verification

  • Forces grounding against authoritative patent databases

  • Flags unverifiable or ambiguous patent claims

  • Prevents hallucinated citations from entering workflows

  • Makes AI-assisted patent research auditable

Intended use cases

  • IP team early-stage patent landscaping

  • Academic or student patent research tools

  • Startup novelty checks before attorney review

  • AI search products that need legal-grade trust boundaries

  • Teaching responsible AI use in IP contexts

What it is not

  • Not a patent database

  • Not a legal opinion

  • Not a replacement for patent attorneys

  • Not dependent on any single AI vendor

Why it matters now

As AI search expands faster than verification infrastructure, patent hallucinations become a silent failure mode. This artifact makes that failure mode visible, explicit, and correctable.

Status

Conceptual artifact + visual system

Deployable today as:

  • Product concept

  • UX metaphor

  • Investor or internal alignment asset

  • Community signal for unmet API demand

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Hi im also developing a tool for my school on this topic, can you reach me out and share more? Im interested. Thx