getPatentCitations

4 credits per call

Retrieve citation data for a patent — forward citations (patents citing this one) and/or backward citations (patents/literature this one cites). Backward results include the Lens IDs of cited scholarly works for getScholarlyWork or searchScholarlyWorks. Use for prior art analysis and patent valuation.

Try it

Open in playground

kirha tools run lens_getPatentCitations \
  --input '{
    "lensId": "145-564-229-856-440"
  }'

Uses the key saved by kirha auth login.

lensIdstring, required
From searchPatents or getPatent, e.g., 145-564-229-856-440
directionstring, default "both"
One of forward, backward, both
fromnumber, default 0, 0 to 9999
sizenumber, default 10, 1 to 50
Page size, applied to forward and backward lists