Patently.com offers a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to streamline the patent lifecycle. It combines advanced AI technologies with patent office data to enable users—such as inventors, patent attorneys, and IP professionals—to create, search, analyze, and manage patents efficiently. The solution includes AI-assisted patent application drafting, semantic patent search using vector AI, collaborative project review, and detailed analytics on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) for 4G and 5G technologies. It integrates data from global patent offices, updated regularly, ensuring accuracy and comprehensive patent coverage.

Key Features

AI-Powered Patent Application Creation (Patently Create) Simplifies and expedites the drafting of patent applications.

• Draft complete applications in minutes rather than weeks.
• NLP-assisted identification of claim features for figure labeling.
• Intuitive inbuilt drawing tools for adding and editing figures.
• AI assistant "Onardo" produces specifications figure-by-figure or all at once.
• Overall drafting time reduced by 90% or more with improved quality.

Semantic Patent Search (Patently Search) Advanced search tools to locate relevant patents accurately and quickly.

• Vector AI-based semantic searching for intuitive and precise results.
• Hybrid search combining exact match terms with semantic queries.
• Ability to combine multiple search results and third-party sources.
• Filters by owners, dates, status, offices, and more.
• Results ordered by relevancy with trust in data integrity.

Patent Family and Citation Analysis (Patently Search and Projects) Understand patent relationships through citation trails and family groupings.

• Forward and Backward (FAB) citation browser tracks family-to-family linkages.
• Reduces duplication by aggregating citations into single consolidated sets.
• Enables traversal across multiple patent generations for deeper insights.

Collaborative Patent Project Management (Patently Projects) Team-oriented workflows and reviews for patent portfolios.

• Comment, rate, sort, and share on patent family and asset levels.
• Customizable reviews for novelty, validity, freedom to operate (FTO), and competitor analysis.
• Automatically updated projects every 30 days to reflect latest data.
• Export company-branded reports in Word format.
• Controlled external stakeholder access and role permissions.

Standards Essential Patent (SEP) Licensing Insights (Patently License) Specialized analytics for negotiating and understanding 4G/5G SEP portfolios.

• Visualize ownership, geographic, and technology coverage of SEPs.
• Leverage accurate SEP family definitions for analysis.
• Includes Questel’s manual essentiality evaluations to assess true patent relevance.
• Supports licensees and licensors in rate negotiation decisions.

Global and Up-to-date Patent Data Broad and current patent data coverage.

• Access to 176 million individual assets and 80 million patent families.
• Data sourced directly from 166 patent offices worldwide.
• Data fully indexed and refreshed every 30 days.

Flexible Workflow and Access Control Streamline patent workflows with project categorization and permissions.

• Hierarchical project categories to organize by department, client, or case.
• User access control for confidentiality and ethical walls.
• Integration with MS Office suite for sharing results with stakeholders.

Benefits

Efficiency Dramatically reduce time for patent drafting and searching to accelerate IP workflows.

• 90% reduction in drafting time with AI assistance.
• Faster, more intuitive semantic patent searches.

Accuracy and Quality Improve the quality of patent specifications and reliability of search results.

• NLP and AI ensure thorough claim and figure capture.
• Solid data identification and error checking in search.

Collaboration Facilitate team-based patent portfolio management and review.

• Multi-user projects with comments, ratings, and customizable workflows.
• Share with internal teams and external stakeholders securely.

Insightful Analytics Gain deeper IP insights through citation analysis and SEP coverage.

• Visualize citation networks to identify patent value and relationships.
• Understand SEP ownership and technical coverage for strategic licensing.

Comprehensive Coverage Work with a worldwide patent dataset that is maintained and updated regularly.

• Ensures global patent visibility and up-to-date information for decisions.