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title: "Google Patents search - returns patent results with titles, patent numbers, inventors, assignees, filing dates, publication dates, and abstracts. Use for IP research, prior art searches, or technology landscape analysis. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request."
method: POST
path: "/serper/patents"
tags: ["Serper"]
---

# Google Patents search - returns patent results with titles, patent numbers, inventors, assignees, filing dates, publication dates, and abstracts. Use for IP research, prior art searches, or technology landscape analysis. Pagination billing: call the first page normally and save billing.requestId from the Orthogonal /v1/run response. For later page, offset, or cursor calls on the same logical search, pass parentRequestId with unchanged non-pagination parameters. Valid continuation calls still get their own request IDs and quoted price, but are charged 0. Changing filters starts a new billable request.

`POST /serper/patents`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.orthogonal.com/mpp`
- URL: `https://api.orthogonal.com/mpp/serper/patents`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/orthogonal/apis/orthogonal-api-marketplace/docs/serper/patents/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

## Request body

- object
  - `q` string, required: Search query (e.g. "solar panel efficiency", "battery technology")
  - `gl` string: Country code (e.g. us, uk, de)
  - `hl` string: Language code (e.g. en, es, fr)
  - `num` number: Number of results (default 10)
  - `page` number: Page number for pagination For later pages of the same logical search, keep non-pagination parameters unchanged and pass top-level parentRequestId from the first Orthogonal /v1/run response.

## Response `200`

Successful response

## Other responses

- `402`: Payment Required (x402 / MPP / np)

## Changes

- **2026-11-08** `857e915717f4`: 1 breaking
  - added required request body

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/orthogonal/apis/orthogonal-api-marketplace/changes/serper/patents/post.md)

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