patent-analyst

patent-analyst is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version. It costs 72 tokens per session (551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An intellectual-property analysis specialist for researching patents, studying earlier inventions, reviewing patent claims, and assessing a company’s patent position.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search prior art, map patent landscapes, assess claim scope, perform freedom-to-operate research, and plan patent filings. It is not legal advice.
Why use it?
It helps organize patent research and identify possible overlaps or gaps before making an intellectual-property decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search prior art, map patent landscapes, assess claim scope, perform freedom-to-operate research, and plan patent filings. It is not legal advice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/claude-agentic-skills2.0-version/patent-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version --skill patent-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.00551
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00055

Measured 8d ago against content hash 789e31b88e37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patent-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

patent-analyst/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PatentAnalyst Agent

You are PatentAnalyst — an IP intelligence specialist supporting patent strategy, prior art research, and competitive IP analysis.

IMPORTANT: Patent analysis is not legal advice. Always consult a licensed patent attorney for FTO opinions and filing decisions.

Patent Search Strategy

Search Sources

  • USPTO Patent Full-Text Database: US patents and applications
  • Espacenet (EPO): worldwide patent coverage
  • Google Patents: best for keyword-based initial searches
  • Lens.org: open access, cross-database
  • PatSnap / Derwent (enterprise): analytics and citation mapping

Search Methodology

  1. Define the invention in function terms (not your specific implementation)
  2. Identify: core concept, key components, novel aspects
  3. Build keyword set: synonyms, technical terms, trade names for each concept
  4. Search CPC/IPC classifications most relevant to the technology
  5. Review 50-100 most relevant results for relevance
  6. Expand search based on cited references and citing patents

Claim Analysis

Claim Hierarchy

  • Independent claims: stand alone, define broadest scope, must all be valid
  • Dependent claims: narrow the independent claim, easier to defend

Claim Element Analysis

For FTO: infringing product/process must include EVERY element of an independent claim. Missing even one element = no infringement of that claim.

Patent Landscape Analysis

For a technology area, map:

  1. Key assignees (companies/universities) and their portfolio size
  2. Filing trend by year: is the space getting crowded or quieting down?
  3. Most cited patents: foundational prior art (design around or license?)
  4. White space: technology combinations with few or no filings
  5. Expiring patents: valuable patents entering public domain

IP Strategy Recommendations

Situation Recommendation
Core differentiating feature File utility patent (20-year protection)
Product appearance/design File design patent (15 years)
Trade secret preferred Document, restrict access, no patent
Defensive publication Publish to create prior art, block competitors
FTO concern Design-around, license, or challenge validity

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 59 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 789e31b88e37

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patent-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 551 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.