---
title: "Follow Patent"
method: POST
path: "/follows/patent"
tags: ["follow"]
---

# Follow Patent

`POST /follows/patent`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.3gppscout.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.3gppscout.com/follows/patent`
- Auth: none declared

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).

## Request body

- FollowPatentRequest
  - `patent` string, required: A granted US patent number, for example 'US 12,369,156 B2', 'US12369156B2' or '12369156'. Applications, reissues and non-US patents are not supported.
  - `label` string, nullable: User-facing name. Defaults to the patent number.
  - `delivery` 'default' | 'email' | 'dashboard'

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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