PatentPlusAI takes on patent searching while leaving the legal judgment to experts
PatentPlusAI's AutoPat turns an invention description or draft claims into a search for earlier technical work. The result is a cited report for patent attorneys and intellectual-property teams, rather than a legal decision. The proposition is to let a patent team set the direction and inspect the evidence without performing every search step itself.
From an invention to an evidence trail
AutoPat is offered for patentability searches, which look for earlier material relevant to a proposed invention; invalidity searches, which look for material relevant to an existing patent; and freedom-to-operate searches, which examine existing patents relevant to a product or activity.
The user provides a description or claims, and AutoPat breaks the subject into features, searches patent records and maps results to those features. The report includes source citations and quoted passages that a practitioner can examine.
Selling the search, not a search box
Co-founder and CEO Massyl Mallem told patent-data provider IFI CLAIMS that his earlier work as an IP specialist exposed him to two choices: outsource a search or conduct it in-house. An outside firm takes on the research, while an internal search keeps the team's expertise close to the work but requires staff to run searches and read documents.