IP & Patents

&AI is an AI workspace for patent litigation built by AndAI, Inc., based in New York. Litigators and in house patent teams use it to search prior art across more than 60 million patent publications, nonpatent literature and product materials such as manuals, standards and video. They also use it to build claim charts for invalidity and evidence of use, to analyze positions under sections 101, 102, 103 and 112, and to draft contentions, expert reports and pitch materials. The platform assembles a patent's family, prosecution history and prior cases, and an AI assistant called Andy works across these tools. In claim charts, every proposed citation points to a passage, figure or timestamp and must be approved by the user before it appears in an export, and exported charts contain quoted evidence rather than generated text. The company serves law firms from the Am Law 100 to IP boutiques, on both plaintiff and defense sides, and in house teams. It publishes its pricing: credits at $0.40 each with no commitment, a Pro plan at $625 per user per month with 2,500 credits, and Enterprise plans offering single tenant or self hosted model deployment, with a seven day free trial.

Alt Legal is trademark docketing software for IP practices. It connects to more than 180 intellectual property offices, pulls matter data from official filings, calculates due dates, and keeps a global portfolio in sync without manual entry. It also sells trademark protection tools, including a Section 2(d) watch that flags conflicting applications before publication and an automated global application match service. The Goods and Services Composer combines the USPTO ID Manual with two million live registered marks and shows filing fees by class as a description is built. The AI Filtering Assistant turns a typed request, such as a jurisdiction and date range, into report filters, and administrators can switch it off. Alt Legal Assist is a separate service in which the company's own IP paralegals manage a customer's docket. Pricing is based on the number of docketed matters, starts at $60 a month, and includes unlimited users, data migration, training and support. Alt Legal, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with offices in New York and London, and it acquired the WebTMS portfolio management product in April 2026.

Amplified is an AI patent search and research platform that ranks a global patent collection by conceptual similarity rather than keyword match. A user describes an invention in plain language or enters a patent number, and the system sorts the whole database against it in real time. Results can then be narrowed with keyword filters, field selection, wildcards, proximity operators and full Boolean queries, which work alongside the AI. The search is iterative: the researcher marks results relevant, flagged or hidden, and the system learns from those marks to surface more like them. Two AI ranking modes are offered, semantic and neural concept similarity, and the AI sorts results but never excludes them. Keyword counts show where the model may have misread an input. Coverage runs to more than 140 million records across 97 or more authorities and 22 languages, with AI search native in English and Japanese. Pricing starts at $500 a month paid annually. The terms say Amplified will never use customer content to train general AI models, and will train customer specific models only at the customer's direction. Amplified AI, Inc. runs a Vanta trust center and builds on Fly.io and Amazon Web Services.

Anaqua sells enterprise intellectual property management software to corporate IP departments and law firms. Its AQX platform runs patent and trademark portfolios end to end: docketing and deadline calculation, prosecution workflow, renewals and annuities, domain names, document management, IP financial management and reporting, with editions for corporations, law firms and pharmaceutical companies. Connected products include PATTSY WAVE, AcclaimIP for patent search and analytics, ideaPoint, QuantifyIP, SeeUnity and WiseTime for automatic timekeeping. Four AI features ship today: a patent classifier; AI Patent Summaries in AcclaimIP; document auto processing of correspondence from the US, European, Japanese and WIPO offices and prior art import using Microsoft Azure AI Document Intelligence; and WiseTime's AI Narrative, which drafts invoice descriptions. AQX runs on Microsoft Azure as a dedicated instance per customer, with data location options in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and India, and an AnaquaGov enclave on Azure Government for controlled US data. Anaqua, Inc. of Boston holds ISO 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type 2 examination, and names adidas, TSMC, GSK, Novo Nordisk and BASF among its clients.

Ankar is an AI platform for patent professionals, covering the work from invention capture to enforcement. Its drafting assistant learns a firm's style from prior applications and templates, then works through an application section by section with consistency checks that keep claims and description aligned; every suggestion can be accepted, edited or ignored. A patentability engine searches more than 150 million patents and publications and explains why each reference matters, with the user setting the similarity criteria and number of results. Other modules handle office action responses, claim charts, small molecule and sequence analysis, traceable citations, and guidelines and case law, plus invention disclosure and research tools for R&D teams. An infringement detection suite returns product level matches with visual evidence, source links and technical context. Drafting works in Microsoft Word. The platform runs as a hosted service in an AWS region the customer chooses or inside the customer's own private cloud. The terms say customer content is never used to train AI models and the customer owns all output. Named customers include Vorys, Valeo, Nexans, L'Oreal and Motorway UK. Ankar is operated by Ankar AI Ltd.

BrandShield is a brand protection and external cybersecurity platform that finds and removes online threats aimed at a company's brand, executives and customers. It monitors marketplaces, websites and domains, social media, paid ads, mobile app stores and the dark web. A product launched in 2026 also checks what generative AI platforms say about a brand: it prompts ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok with brand queries and then acts against the sources those answers cite. Detection runs on AI.ClusterX, the company's own threat clustering engine, which reads infrastructure, hosting patterns, content signals and behavioral indicators to judge whether a domain or asset is malicious. Image detection catches altered logos and product visuals. The company's own enforcement team coordinates takedowns with platforms, registrars and hosting providers. Customers can buy the platform fully managed, self service or hybrid, so they can run incidents themselves, hand them to a 24/7 security operations center, or split the work. The company publishes pages for twelve industries and for six buying roles, including legal counsel, compliance and information security. BrandShield Resolve, an entry level product for domain and phishing protection, is sold through AWS Marketplace. The contracting entity is Brandshield Ltd. of Herzliya, Israel.

ClaimMaster is a Microsoft Word add in for patent attorneys, agents and paralegals. It proofreads claims, specifications and office action responses, drafts application sections, figures and flowcharts, generates office action shells and USPTO forms, and downloads USPTO and EPO data. The +Drafting and +Shells add ons connect it to models from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI and Anthropic, or to local models through Ollama. They draft and rewrite text, describe figures and analyze office actions. The add in runs on the user's Windows computer and sends document text to a model only on the user's command, straight to the provider. Seats cost from $20 per user per month on annual billing, up to $75 for Pro with drafting and shells, with a 30 day trial. ClaimMaster Software LLC, a small independent company under Maryland law, released version 2026.5 in October 2026.

Corsearch is a trademark and brand protection provider combining AI technology with expert services. Its trademark platform, TrademarkNow, was relaunched in May 2024 with AI similarity analysis that evaluates phonetic, semantic and visual similarity across global trademark data, for screening, clearance, watch and portfolio management. Named tools include ExaMatch for preliminary screening, NameCheck for rapid risk assessment, LogoCheck for clearing logos through image recognition, Name Generator, and Portfolio Analyzer. Industrial Design Search is a separate image recognition engine for designs, and Corsearch Pharma combines trademark and regulatory checks for drug name clearance. Coverage is stated across 190 global registries and more than 1,100 screening databases. Watch comes as Automated Watch, using AI for monitoring at portfolio scale, or Expert Watch, with analyst strategies for complex matters. Brand Protection covers counterfeit removal, online channel cleanup, seller identification, gray market disruption, an AI that blocks noncompliant listings before publication, and content and piracy protection. The company claims clearance timelines reduced by up to 40 percent and watch review time cut by 50 to 70 percent. Simon Baggs is Executive Chairman. Pricing is not published.

Cypris is an R&D and IP intelligence platform sold by IP Web, Inc. of New York City. It unifies patent and scientific data: 198 million patent documents from over 150 countries, 341 million research papers from 274,000 journals and repositories, 125 million indexed chemical compounds with structure search, and market and regulatory sources, connected by a proprietary ontology. AI agents cover technology scouting, literature review, competitive intelligence, prior art, regulatory research and white space analysis, retain project context and can be configured to a team's own methods. The Knowledge Management product lets a company search its internal documents alongside the external data. Research Briefs are written by the vendor's own analysts, with each subscription including a set number of reports and briefs a month. Integrated Intelligence exposes the data to a customer's own Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT through an MCP server and API. Models come from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and are metered as AI credits. Buyers are corporate R&D and IP teams, among them Johnson & Johnson, Yamaha, Oerlikon, NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

DeepIP is an AI patent platform that runs inside Microsoft Word, built for law firms and in house patent teams. It drafts complete applications from invention disclosures in a firm's own style, generates patent drawings, reviews claims for antecedent basis and section 101 risk, and drafts office action responses with case law citations. Patentability, prior art, freedom to operate and invalidity modules work across more than 120 million patents and non patent literature. DeepIP runs an OpenAI model on Microsoft Azure alongside proprietary models, with SaaS or on premises deployment and customer data kept in the territories a customer selects. Its April 2026 terms bar training on customer data and carry an indemnity, warranties and insurance, and its trust center holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 reports. Founded in New York and Paris by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard d'Archimbaud, it has raised $40 million and reports more than 500 law firms and in house teams as customers.

Octimine is a semantic patent search, analytics and monitoring platform sold by Dennemeyer, the intellectual property services group, to patent law firms, corporate IP and R&D teams, universities and patent offices. A user enters a description, an abstract or publication numbers, and machine learning models return the most similar documents from a database of more than 120 million patents in seconds, combinable with Boolean queries and filters. Octi, an assistant on advanced language models, summarizes, compares and answers questions about patents in plain language. Monitoring profiles follow technical domains and competitors with alerts on legal status changes and new publications. A shared workspace supports highlighting, comments, tags, ratings and visibility controls, more than twenty patent indicators drive analytics, and an API embeds the search in a customer's own systems. Octimine was founded in Munich in 2015 by researchers from LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute and was acquired by the Dennemeyer Group on 5 November 2018. The search servers are stated to be in a data center in Germany. Customers named at acquisition included Siemens, Deutsche Post, Harvard University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property.

Derwent Patent Monitor is Clarivate's collaborative patent review platform for freedom to operate, patentability, opposition and monitoring work. It launched in November 2025 as a product separate from Derwent Patent Search. Patent alerts from Derwent Innovation and Innography flow into review projects, where patent analysts, attorneys and technical reviewers work from feeds set by role. They assign documents, comment on patent text, carry annotations across related families and projects, and start actions such as opposing, monitoring or acquiring a patent, with a full activity history. Its AI feature, Threat Analysis, ranks the documents in a review by risk and explains each ranking by mapping product features to specific claims. That lets reviewers clear irrelevant documents faster and look first at the patents most likely to block a product. Clarivate says it combines generative AI with more explainable AI. The product is built on the Derwent World Patents Index, Clarivate's own editorially written invention summaries. Clarivate Plc, listed on the New York Stock Exchange and based in London, publishes it.

Derwent Patent Search, formerly Derwent Innovation, is Clarivate's patent research platform for prior art, patentability, freedom to operate and invalidity searches. Its core asset is the Derwent World Patents Index, where human editors rewrite patent disclosures as plain summaries of each invention's novelty, use and advantage, for more than 70 million invention families. AI Search, launched in December 2024, takes free text such as an invention disclosure and returns relevant patents, using a model trained on that index. Other AI features fill in missing data, resolve current ownership and predict legal status. Clarivate says 40 patent and trademark offices use the platform and its data. Clarivate Plc is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and based in London.

DorothyAI is a patent search and IP analysis platform for patent attorneys and agents and the businesses they advise, published by Three10 Legal, Inc. Activ8 Novelty searches the worldwide patent collection from a plain English description of an invention rather than keywords and Boolean operators; Activ8 Freedom searches the claims of granted patents for a product, its components and combinations of them to assess infringement risk; AskDot is a generative assistant over DorothyAI's global patent database; and Activ8 Alignment pulls prior art together with market, regulatory and court data into a shareable report that can be refreshed on a schedule or on demand. CrossCite prepares primary and supplemental Information Disclosure Statements for patent prosecution. Underneath sits Adaptive Research Technology, the vendor's framework for querying several search models at once and surfacing the results that more than one model agrees on. The platform is sold on a monthly subscription with a free trial; separately, DorothyAI sells People+AI report services staffed by a network it describes as more than 200 advisors.

Edge sells AI tools for patent and trademark practitioners. It is operated by Edge Innovations, Inc., founded by Evan Zimmerman and Len Boyette and backed by Y Combinator. Its patent product, renamed Ingenia in April 2026, drafts and edits patent claims and specifications, generates and edits patent figures such as line drawings and flow charts, parses inventor disclosures, and produces forms such as information disclosure statements and ST.26 sequence listings. It supports USPTO and EPO drafting in more than 12 languages, with features for life sciences, chemistry and other technical fields. Certus, launched on 23 April 2026, is an AI agent for trademark work. It writes a search strategy, runs it against a global trademark database, ranks the results by risk, adds evidence such as abandonment and owner information, and drafts a clearance report on the attorney's own template. It also supports application filing. The vendor says it works with outside and in house counsel at firms of all sizes, and its site shows logos including K&L Gates, McCarter English, Taft and Nestle.

Huski.ai is an AI trademark platform for IP attorneys, paralegals and legal staff, covering search, docketing, watch and online brand protection. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Middletown, Delaware. Its core technology is image recognition applied to trademark work, which the vendor says removes the need for design search codes: a user uploads an image and gets visually similar results from the USPTO database in seconds. Search covers text and image clearance against the USPTO, with a report and a customized opinion letter generated in a few clicks. Watch applies the same recognition to newly filed applications, so conflicts surface at filing rather than at publication. Docketing offers portfolio upload in one click, deadline tracking, a daily email, Office Action management and integration with US Customs and Border Protection to track recordation statuses. Brand Protection monitors online stores and marketplaces for infringing listings, including independent Shopify stores, and compiles evidence into a report for litigation. Pricing is published, starting at $299 per month for unlimited text and image clearance searches, with no contract or credit card required to start.

IamIP is a patent intelligence platform from IamIP Sverige AB, founded in 2013 and based in Stockholm, with offices in Cologne and Szczecin. It covers more than 105 countries, over 131 million patents and 338 million legal events, updated weekly. Features include patent search with machine translation, monitoring alerts, legal status watch, analytics, team collaboration and an idea database for invention decisions. The AI toolkit adds natural language and similarity search, monitoring set up from an AI search, an AI Patent Summarizer, an AI Claim Comparer that matches claims by meaning across jurisdictions and languages, and an AI Claim Clarifier that adds definitions taken from the patent's own description. IamIP says AI search processing happens within its own secure environment. It sells to management, R&D and IP teams and to patent attorneys and law firms, and publishes case studies from Grundfos, TRUMPF, Sartorius and the German patent firm terpatent, among others. Its pricing page lists Starter, Pro and Enterprise plans at 0, 89 and 299 a year with no currency shown. No customer terms are published.

InnovationQ+ is IP.com's search and analytics platform for patent and nonpatent literature, used for prior art discovery, patentability screening, freedom to operate work, landscape mapping and competitive monitoring. It searches 154 patent authorities at once across more than 190 million IP data points, and offers full text access to IEEE alongside IP.com's own Prior Art Database of technical disclosures. Users can search by concept, keyword, hybrid, image or whole document, so a draft invention disclosure or a full claim can serve as the query. Analysis covers trends, leading filers, geography and gaps, plus scored reports: the self service Patent Vitality Report, and the Portfolio Intelligence Report, which scores each patent in a portfolio on fourteen factors against a peer group of the hundred most similar patents. The AI has two parts. Semantic Gist, the retrieval engine, is built in house and covered by United States Patents 8,539,000 and 8,548,951. CompassAI, the reasoning layer, works only on evidence Semantic Gist retrieves, assessing novelty, similarity and technical differences, and is described as supporting expert judgment rather than replacing it. IP.com, Inc. has operated since 1994 and also offers InnovationQ, IQ Ideas+ and analyst delivered search services.

IP Author is an AI patent platform for practitioners, covering drafting, prior art search, office action responses, claim drafting, invention management and patent classification. It drafts a complete first application from an invention disclosure, with claims, specification and figures kept consistent, in a stated fifteen minutes. Prior art search is built into drafting and covers patent and non patent literature and technical standards across more than 100 jurisdictions. Office action support covers rejections under sections 101, 102, 103 and 112 and double patenting. The vendor states that attorneys and agents stay in full control of the final work product. A 14 day free trial is available from the website, which also publishes a pricing page and a Trust Center.

ipQuants builds Qthena, a copilot for patent professionals built around a digital cockpit for working on documents. The cockpit handles review, annotation and management of published patent documents, with project views and panels for collaboration. An analytics layer lets a user query ipQuants' own datasets and statistics without uploading anything, including insights on individual EPO examiners and opposition and appeal board members. The generative layer, AskQthena, runs document analysis, summarization, drafting and conversational queries across many documents. Qthena is organized into named skills: analysis across documents, EPO and USPTO examination, claim feature breakdown, prior art comparison, invention disclosure generation, patent drafting, and patent drawings from sketches, photographs or text. The company states that drafting covers about 80 percent of the work with the user finalizing, that drawing generation reliably completes around 90 percent, and that a human decides at each step. It says publicly that it does not tie itself to one model provider and has moved its default between vendors. Users are corporate IP departments, law firms and R&D teams. Questel also distributes Qthena inside its own IP platform.

IPRally is a patent search and analysis platform for corporate IP departments, R&D teams, patent attorneys and search professionals. Its core is a proprietary graph based AI, trained on millions of patent examiner citations, that runs prior art searches from a plain text description, a publication number, an image or a search graph instead of Boolean queries, across what the company describes as 120 million or more patents in 58 jurisdictions, with machine translation of documents not in English. Review tools include Ask AI for single patents or whole result sets, AI highlighting and relevance scoring, relevance feedback, custom classifiers trained on a customer's own data, and Graph AI monitoring of technologies and competitors. IPRally Agent takes an invention disclosure or target document, confirms the claims and features with the user, searches, and returns a claim chart with prior art mapped to each claim and a written novelty or invalidity report for professional review. Generative features are optional, marked in the interface and can be switched off by an administrator. Plans are Individual and Team, the latter with unlimited seats. Published Generative AI Additional Terms name Anthropic, OpenAI and Google as possible model providers and require that none train on customer data. IPRally Technologies Oy is based in Helsinki, holds ISO 27001 certification and runs its servers in the EU.

Juristat is a patent prosecution analytics and workflow platform built on United States Patent and Trademark Office data, sold to patent law firms and to corporate IP, legal operations, IP strategy and finance teams. Juristat Analytics turns data on more than ten million patent applications into examiner analytics, prosecution strategy, cost forecasting, appeals benchmarking, portfolio management, competitor comparison, outside counsel scorecards and custom reports. Its AI-Powered Insight feature answers plain language questions from the USPTO dataset with quantified answers backed by sources. Office Action Strategy Briefs and Juristat OAR prepare and manage office action responses, and Juristat IDS generates and audits information disclosure statements by tracing patent family trees. A Data Layer with Model Context Protocol access supplies Juristat's structured patent data to customers' own AI systems. Juristat, Inc. is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and says it serves more than a third of the top hundred patent law firms, with named quotes from Sterne Kessler, Orrick and others. Pricing is by custom quote, with a Solo tier for one user at a single price. The company publishes terms of use and a privacy policy and has a trust center on Secureframe.

MarqVision is an AI brand protection platform that finds and removes infringements of a brand's intellectual property online. Its detection engine scans more than 1,500 marketplaces, social platforms, websites and app stores across 118 countries. It compares what it finds with the brand's own product data at SKU level, catching fakes that copy specifications and images while avoiding the logo, and analyzes video frame by frame. Four further lines cover impersonation (lookalike domains, scam ads and spoofed social profiles), content protection against piracy, unauthorized sales and gray market resellers, and MarqLaw, which coordinates customs, criminal enforcement, investigations and litigation through partner law firms. A separate product, MarqFolio, handles trademark registration, renewal and monitoring. Enforcement runs on a letter of authorization from the brand, with a whitelist of sellers the customer does not want to act against. The company describes a tiered model in which borderline cases go to human analysts. Customers include Nissan, GM, Panasonic, Henkel, Miele, Lush, Wella, Coupang, Shinsegae and MSCHF. MarqVision is operated by Marq Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seoul, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Minesoft PatBase is a global patent search and analytics platform used by more than 90,000 IP, legal and R&D professionals for prior art searching, freedom to operate work, portfolio management, competitor monitoring and landscape analysis. It covers more than 180 million patent publications from over 100 issuing authorities, organized by family and by publication, with full text for the major jurisdictions, daily data quality checks and a live feed of new publications. Searching ranges from natural language to complex Boolean and command line syntax. A spring 2026 release added fourteen standards bodies, including IEEE, ISO, ITU-T, IETF and ANSI, for standard essential patent work. Most AI features arrived in 2025 and 2026. Document Chat answers questions about a single patent, AI Explain highlights the wording that matched a query, Smart Images links reference numerals in drawings to the description, and alert classifiers can be trained on a user's own folders and search history. Machine translation is built in, developed with RWS, which develops PatBase with Minesoft. Minesoft Ltd is a private British company founded in 1996 and based in Richmond-upon-Thames, London.

Patent Bots is a suite of tools for patent preparation and prosecution from Patent Bots, Inc., founded in 2018 by patent attorney Jeff O'Neill. Its flagship, Prep & Pros Pro, runs as a Microsoft Word add in and in the browser. It proofreads applications and office action responses for antecedent basis, claim numbering, word support, reference label and limiting word errors, and it drafts sections such as figure descriptions, claim summaries and flowcharts with generative AI. Office Action Explorer, response shells, IDS forms, client letters and USPTO forms cover prosecution paperwork. Art Unit Predictor uses a neural network trained on USPTO data to forecast the group and art unit an application will reach. Examiner statistics, PatentPlex family trees and timelines, PatentLink portfolio lists and PatentVerse quality rankings sit beside them. Generative features run on Anthropic models through AWS Bedrock with zero data retention, are off by default and are switched on by an administrator. Patent Bots says 45 of the top 100 patent law firms use it, and it publishes firm, company and individual prices.

Patentcloud is a patent analytics and search platform built by InQuartik Corporation of Taiwan for IP professionals, patent counsel, brokers and analysts. It is sold as six applications sharing one patent database: Patent Search, Design Search, Patent Vault, Due Diligence, Quality Insights and SEP OmniLytics. Quality Insights assesses the validity and quality of a US patent in one click, pulling file wrappers and generating prior art comparisons. Its Semantic Prior Art function uses the vendor's own machine learning to return up to 300 references from six patent authorities, ranked by semantic similarity. A generative AI Patent Summary feature condenses each reference and highlights terms that align with the claims at issue. Design Search matches design patents from an uploaded image, and Patent Vault is a shared workspace for up to 100,000 patents and twenty collaborators. Products are sold individually or in five bundled plans, billed monthly or annually by credit card, with free trials. InQuartik is ISO 27001 certified across all six applications and hosts data with Amazon Web Services in Oregon and Tokyo and Taiwan Mobile in Taipei. The terms are governed by the law of the Republic of China, with disputes heard in the Taipei District Court.

PatentPal automates the mechanical writing in a patent application. A drafter supplies the claims, and the software generates the supporting specification from them, with flowcharts for methods, block diagrams for systems and devices, a detailed description of each figure, and the abstract and summary. Drafts export to Word and to Visio or PowerPoint, and generation settings can be saved as profiles to match a drafter's or a firm's phrasing. The intended user is a patent attorney or agent who already has claims in hand, and the stated aim is to give back the hours spent turning claims into specification prose. PatentPal Inc. was founded in Silicon Valley by Harvard alumni with patent law and machine learning backgrounds. It is led by founder and chief executive Jack Xu, a former patent attorney, and has raised a round led by Foothill Ventures. Its terms state that patent documents are processed in memory on Amazon Web Services and not otherwise stored, that their contents and output go to no third party other than AWS, and that all processing is in the United States. The terms also state that use creates no attorney client relationship and that output is not legal advice.

PatentSight+ is the LexisNexis patent analytics and IP intelligence platform. It is used to benchmark the strength and value of portfolios, map technology landscapes, find licensing partners and acquisition targets, and support due diligence and litigation risk assessment. It runs on a harmonized global database of more than 90 million patent family records, enriched with manually checked ownership data that resolves assets to their true corporate owner, legal status tracking, and more than 100 attributes and measures. These include the Patent Asset Index, a proprietary valuation metric whose method is published. Search covers full text and fields with Boolean, proximity and wildcard syntax, plus similarity search, saved search history and visualization tools. Four capabilities use AI. Protégé, generally available since May 2026, is a generative assistant that answers plain language business questions and shows the full query behind each answer so it can be reproduced. AI-Powered Features explain charts, the AI Classifier builds custom technology views, and TechDiscovery, added in October 2024, allows search in ordinary words. The company says all AI in the product is governed by the RELX Responsible AI Principles. LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, within RELX.

PatentWatch is an AI platform for finding out who is infringing a patent portfolio and building the evidence to act on it. Its four published modules are product mapping, patent search, prior art analysis and portfolio analytics. The core workflow maps granted claims against competing products at scale. The platform interprets a claim, breaks it into its elements and finds supporting evidence in product documentation and specifications. It then assembles a claim chart in which each element carries the passage relied on, an analysis and a numeric score, with an overall match score for the claim. Prior art and invalidity searching runs alongside it, aimed at testing whether a patent would survive a challenge. The company describes uses including identifying licensing and litigation targets, supporting cease and desist letters, finding counterclaims when a company is itself sued, and diligence in mergers and acquisitions. The company was founded by the brothers Alexander and Andreas Stroe, went through Y Combinator, and announced a 2.8 million dollar seed round in April 2026 led by FundersClub.

Patlytics is an AI patent platform for law firms and in house IP teams. Its connected modules cover infringement, invalidity, freedom to operate, standard essential patents, portfolio analysis, claim construction, drafting, office actions and invention disclosures. A patent agent with more than 200 skills works across them, suggesting edits that users accept or reject line by line, and every claim chart cell cites its source. Patlytics cites more than 130 million patents and 300 million literature items in its collection. Its August 2025 terms bar training on customer materials and carry an IP indemnity and a 12 month fee cap. Its trust center offers SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 reports on request and lists OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini among its subprocessors. Founded by Paul Lee and Arthur Jen and based in New York, Patlytics has raised about $65 million, including a $40 million Series B led by SignalFire on 8 April 2026.

PatSnap

PatSnap is an innovation intelligence and patent analytics platform for IP teams, research and development teams and innovation leaders across industry, not only law firms. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, it states access to more than 2 billion structured data points and over 210 million patent, science and technology records, covering patents, scientific literature, litigation, clinical data and technical knowledge across 20 domains. PatSnap Analytics handles patent search, landscaping, competitor monitoring, portfolio valuation and infringement risk. Eureka is the AI layer, with agents for prior art, novelty and freedom to operate, design patent risk, drafting, translation and Markush claim drafting, and Eureka Life Sciences adds agents for biopharma research. The vendor publishes PatentBench, its own benchmark, with a 77 percent hit rate on design freedom to operate. Developers can build on it through REST APIs and MCP servers. A trust center lists SOC 2 Type 1 and ISO 27001:2022. Named customers include NASA, Tesla, Vodafone, MIT and General Electric. The company reached a unicorn valuation in 2021 after a $300m Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent, and Jeffrey Tiong is chief executive. Pricing is by subscription tier and given on request.

Paximal

Paximal is an agentic AI patent drafting platform from Paximal, Inc., a Delaware company operating from California. A practitioner uploads invention materials, such as invention disclosures, technical specifications, design documents, system diagrams, source code excerpts and lab notes. The practitioner sets the claim focus, terminology and embodiments up front so the draft follows the intended strategy. Coordinated agents then build the sections of a full application, harmonize terminology, map features to claims and embed fallback support, producing a complete specification. The vendor calls the output Born Strong and publishes a cohort study of its own drafted applications at the USPTO covering allowance, prior art and section 112 outcomes. A preliminary prior art search report draws on Project PQAI under PQAI's own terms. Models are reached only through Microsoft Azure, and the vendor states that inputs and outputs never train any model, are never available to other customers, and are stored and processed in the United States. Buyers are patent law firms, solo and small practices, and in house IP teams, and a free pilot is offered without a sales call. The founder previously founded Specifio, whose patent drafting assets Paximal absorbed.

PowerPatent

PowerPatent is generative AI drafting software for patent applications, sold to patent attorneys, agents and the inventors who work with them. A user uploads an invention summary, a set of claims and annotated drawings, and the software produces a first draft. The draft includes a background written automatically, a preliminary claim set for review, and a detailed description written figure by figure from the part lists, with support for chemical formulas and specifications in several languages. Around the drafting sit invention disclosure capture, flowchart and drawing management, graphical claim drafting, inventor and client collaboration, Private PAIR integration, and diagnostics that flag Section 112 problems and gaps in claim support before filing. A separate Office Action product handles responses. Pricing is published: 200 tokens for 199 dollars, more at a dollar each, with enterprise licensing on request. PowerPatent, Inc. is based in Santa Clara, California, holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification and lists its own granted US patents on the site.

qatent

qatent is a self service AI patent drafting product sold by Questel, which acquired the company in March 2024. According to Questel's announcement, qatent began at the INRIA Paris research center and was founded by French patent attorneys and German AI researchers. A user generates a first draft of a patent application from its claims, all at once or section by section, in a format ready for a PCT filing. The product also generates claims with novelty diagnostics, models a draft on an existing patent and describes drawings with machine vision. Drafting is offered in four languages, among them English, French and Chinese, for patent attorneys and for newcomers to patent drafting. qatent is priced at 200 euros per user a month or 2,000 euros per user a year, excluding tax, with no long term commitment. Questel says qatent runs on its architecture in Sophia-Antipolis, France, with Microsoft Azure as its AI provider, and that models are never improved on customer data. Questel is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and sells qatent alongside its Orbit search and Equinox IP management software.

Questel

Questel is an intellectual property suite covering patents, trademarks, designs, domain names and innovation management, sold to corporate IP departments, law firms and R&D teams. Its software falls into three families. Orbit handles search and analytics, with Orbit Intelligence for patent search and analysis and specialist modules for biosequences and chemistry. Equinox is the IP management system, sold in corporate and law firm editions and covering docketing, forecasting and electronic billing. Markify handles trademark clearance and watching. AI assistants sit on top: the AI-Classifier for patent classification, generative patent drafting from the qatent acquisition, Qthena for prosecution workflow, and Sophia, an agent that works across the platform. Questel publishes an Artificial Intelligence Policy and a Trusted AI page naming the models behind its generative features. A large services arm runs beside the software, handling searches, international filings, translation and renewals through a network the company describes as 320 agents and 1,200 translators. Questel SAS is registered in Paris and reports more than 1,700 staff and over 20,000 clients across 30 countries. It is ISO 27001 certified, and Frederic Beylier is chief executive.

Red Points

Red Points is an AI brand protection platform that finds and removes counterfeit listings, fake websites, impersonating profiles, fraudulent ads and pirated content for its customers. Its models scan more than 5,000 platforms, including marketplaces, social networks, search engines, app stores, domains and mainland China platforms, using image, logo, packaging and text recognition trained on each protected brand asset. It scores the seller behind a listing across more than 17 million seller identities. Enforcement runs through direct API integrations and more than 300 removal agreements with platforms, and every detection is logged and packaged as evidence formatted to the infringement type, platform and jurisdiction. The platform is sold in tiers from Starter to Enterprise across five programs, covering counterfeits, gray market and unauthorized distribution, brand impersonation, domain abuse and piracy, each charged as a flat fee for an agreed scope. Services such as investigations, test purchases, IP registration and domain disputes can be added. Red Points reports more than 1,300 brand customers.

Solve Intelligence

Solve Intelligence is an AI platform for patent work, used through a browser editor called Patent Copilot by law firm and in house IP teams. It drafts applications, figures, chemical structures and sequence listings in an attorney's own style, drafts office action responses, reviews drafts before filing, and builds infringement, invalidity and freedom to operate charts. Agents run multi step prosecution and litigation tasks, and agentic retrieval covers patents, literature, standards, case law and patent office records. Customers choose a United States or EU deployment, each with its own subprocessors, and model providers process data under zero data retention agreements. Solve holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification, with ISO 42001 in progress, and its June 2026 terms carry an IP indemnity and a 12 month fee cap. It reports more than 700 IP teams on six continents, including DLA Piper, Intel, Siemens and Finnegan.

Tangibly

Tangibly is a trade secret management platform from Tangibly, Inc. for corporate legal and IP teams, law firms and the HR, R&D and security teams that handle confidential information. Its AI discovery analyzes a company's patents and internal documents to surface likely trade secrets, groups them into categories and links each result back to its source for review. The platform keeps a registry of trade secret assets with owners, review cycles and classifications, manages access and acknowledgments, and keeps timestamped records to support arguments about reasonable measures in a dispute. Alongside the platform, Tangibly sells consulting, case validation and damages assessments for trade secret disputes, and nonrecourse litigation funding through a partnership with SIM IP; the platform can be licensed on its own. Pricing is not published.

Tradespace

Tradespace is an intellectual property management platform covering the patent lifecycle from invention capture to licensing. Its Create module turns what an inventor already has, such as slide decks, specifications, flow charts, manuscripts and audio, into structured disclosure packages, and connects to Slack, Gmail and Notion to surface ideas. Disclosures arrive with prior art review, related portfolio matches and market assessments attached, and rules route them through patent committee review. Protect covers drafting and prosecution, with a docketing assistant that captures patent office and outside counsel correspondence, creates deadlines and suggests responses. Manage handles annuities and portfolio reporting, and Commercialize identifies likely licensees and builds claim charts. Tradespace also offers flat fee prosecution through a network of outside patent firms. Each customer account gets its own dedicated model instance, with no data passing between instances, and retrieval augmented generation grounds responses with citations. The platform runs on Microsoft Azure in the US Northern Virginia region, with models reached by default through Azure OpenAI Service. Customers include Georgia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, the FDA, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. Tradespace, Inc. of San Francisco acquired the patent drafting startup Paragon in November 2025.

Triangle IP

Triangle IP is a patent pipeline and prosecution analytics platform from Triangle IP, Inc., a Colorado company. Its TIP Tool is a workspace modeled on Jira where a company captures invention disclosures, scores and ranks ideas, and moves them through stages with inventors and outside counsel working in the same place. It then tracks the resulting applications as a portfolio with automatic USPTO status updates, family trees, prosecution timelines, deadline reminders and spreadsheet export. The machine learning sits in the Predictor, which reads an invention summary, a draft or an uploaded file, compares the claim language with public USPTO prosecution data, and returns likely Group Art Units and CPC codes with confidence levels and historical allowance rates. A drafter can amend claims and rerun the prediction. Statistical analytics cover examiner behavior, expected office action rounds, prosecution cost and outside counsel performance. The Predictor is sold alone at five dollars a month and inside the platform, which is priced flat per organization with a free tier that never expires. The vendor says text submitted to the Predictor is discarded once the prediction is generated.

XLSCOUT

XLSCOUT is a large language model platform for patent work, sold to IP departments, patent attorneys and research teams as nine separately marketed modules. Novelty Checker LLM runs first pass prior art searches and returns novelty reports that map the invention's key features against the references found. Invalidator LLM does the same for invalidity, ranking the fifty most relevant references against the claims. ClaimChart LLM builds claim charts for infringement analysis and identifies possible licensees and overlapping products. PatDigger LLM looks across a portfolio for licensing opportunities, and Standigger LLM maps standard essential patents. Drafting LLM produces patent drafts with an assistant for revisions, Ideacue generates and scores invention ideas, and TechScaper LLM monitors technology areas and competitors in English, Japanese, Chinese and German. An AI assisted source code review service sits alongside. Retrieval is built on ParaEmbed, an embedding model XLSCOUT fine tuned on patent and technology data and released openly on Hugging Face, with in house RAG models and Microsoft Azure endpoints. Customers choose US or European storage, and the master agreement says customer inputs and outputs are not used to train the models of XLSCOUT or its suppliers. The company holds a SOC 2 Type II report from Prescient Assurance and is based in Toronto.