01 · Gather
Ingest the invention record.
Collect filings, claims, citations, assignments, legal events, papers, products, and standards.
Sectors / Patents
Patent search finds documents. Innovation decisions need a landscape.
The same invention appears across jurisdictions, languages, continuations, assignments, and changing legal status. We connect patent families, claims, owners, inventors, citations, products, and research into one navigable knowledge base.
Research
Patent information is public but difficult to reason over. One invention can produce many related filings with different claims, translations, owners, priority dates, and legal status across national offices.
Keyword search misses conceptual overlap and overweights wording. The real questions concern claim scope, family relationships, ownership, prior art, technical direction, and the white space between crowded clusters.
Questions Worth a Clean Answer
Ask hard. Answer with clean data.
- Q01Which patent families cover the same underlying idea despite using different language or classification codes?
- Q02What prior art most directly challenges a claim, including non-patent literature and older terminology?
- Q03Where is technical activity accelerating, and which important problems remain relatively unclaimed?
The Method — A Continual Loop
Gather, organize, refine, test, prioritize — repeat.
02 · Organize
Resolve families and ownership.
Link continuations, priorities, inventors, assignees, transactions, and jurisdictions.
03 · Refine
Compare ideas, not just words.
Split claims into concepts, merge equivalent disclosures, and map technical overlap.
04 · Test
Challenge the landscape.
Evaluate novelty and overlap against dated sources, alternative terminology, and expert review.
05 · Prioritize
Rank strategic relevance.
Surface blocking claims, emerging clusters, white space, and status changes by importance.
The Cascade
Invention Landscape Cascade.
Family resolution and concept-level comparison turn millions of filings into a map of ownership, overlap, momentum, and technical white space.
Record
Structure
Analysis
Outcomes
Select any node to trace its chain. Left to right: Record → Structure → Analysis → Outcomes.
What the Core Delivers
Knowledge you can act on.
- A global, family-resolved invention graph with ownership and legal status over time.
- Concept-level prior-art and overlap analysis with direct source provenance.
- Strategic landscapes showing crowded claims, emerging directions, and defensible white space.