Follow Patent

Follow a granted US patent by number for the signed-in user (private preview).

Scout stores the patent's title, assignees, priority, filing and grant dates, family ID, an expiry estimate, and each independent claim split into elements, and shows them on the Followed topics page. Returns the follow (follow_id) with a patent object: status is 'ready' when the claims are loaded, 'pending' while Scout loads them, or 'not_found'. Following a patent you already follow returns that follow with already_following: true. A patent follow counts as one of the 20 active follows. It does not send updates yet: alerts when new 3GPP work comes near the claims are a later step. Claims and bibliographic data are from Google Patents Public Data (IFI CLAIMS Patent Services and Google, CC BY 4.0).