Patent Bear is in the Claude connector directory, Labs became Research, court decisions are searchable, and file-history documents read in seconds through the connector.

Open claude.ai, Settings, Connectors, search for Patent Bear, click Connect, sign in. One connector covers claude.ai in the browser, the desktop app, and Cowork. The custom-connector endpoint still works everywhere else.

District court, Federal Circuit, and PTAB decisions, searchable with boolean queries, date ranges, and cited-docket filters, and readable page by page with the reporter cite. Also available to your assistant through the connector.

Same analyses, clearer name. Prior Art, Charting, Disclosure, Clearance, Invention, and Citations live under Research in the navigation, and every old link redirects.

When an assistant asked for the text of a file-wrapper document that had not been read before, the request waited behind background caching on our servers and could take about two minutes, sometimes longer than the assistant was willing to wait. First reads are now handled on their own lane and typically return in under twenty seconds.

Application pages showed filing and grant dates one day early for readers west of UTC. Dates on those pages are now the calendar dates on the record.