What problem does it solve?
It helps you reduce novelty risk by quickly identifying existing patents and academic publications that may disclose your invention’s key technical elements, so you can refine claims and prioritize what to argue or redesign.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Patent prior-art discovery: Searches Google Patents and Espacenet using extracted concepts and predicted IPC/CPC classes to surface relevant documents.
- Academic literature coverage: Finds related prior publications via Google Scholar, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar (when available).
- Overlap-risk analysis & reporting: Rates each reference’s potential overlap (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW) and compiles a structured prior art report with freedom-to-operate considerations.
Use case: You have an invention brief for a novel technical approach and want a structured landscape of what existed before your priority date, including both patents and papers.
Quick Start
Run prior-art-search with your invention description to generate patent/PRIOR_ART_REPORT.md containing a categorized prior art landscape and preliminary FTO assessment.
