The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is exploring the idea of using artificial intelligence to improve searches for “prior art” during the patent process, according to a public solicitation. “However, ...

Bolstered by funding from Draper Associates, Mighty Capital and The LegalTech Fund, among others, NLPatent plans to add a new ...

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“[USPTO Director Nominee John] Squires called for the adoption of more AI tools to ensure that the Office is issuing patents of ‘provable quality.’” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

The platform is billed as the “world’s first AI patent research agent that makes IP intelligence accessible to everyone." ...

“If users do not understand the principles of patent searching, and simply hand over the technical text to ChatGPT for the construction of search formulas without analyzing the technical contents, the ...

As companies and markets increasingly view patents not just as a defensive shield but as strategic assets (e.g., for licensing, enforcement, or ...

NLPatent previously raised $1.4 million CAD in funding across a $1-million equity seed round in October 2023 that Storytime ...

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Google this week was granted its first patent by the United States Patent Office for a method of determining the relevance of Web pages in relation to search queries. The patent, which Google filed on ...

Google has added another piece of search software to its arsenal, with the launch of Google Patent Search. The patent search site, launched as a beta on Wednesday night, is designed to sift through ...