prior-art-search

Conduct a prior art search by providing an invention description or brief file. The system extracts technical concepts and queries Google Patents, Espacenet, Google Scholar, and arXiv to identify matching disclosures and generate a structured report.

Assess freedom to operate risk by triaging identified patents for overlap with your invention. The system flags potentially blocking patents and assigns an overlap risk level of HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW based on extracted claims and technical features.

Overlap risk triage evaluates patents against your invention's features to assign a HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW relevance score. It extracts titles, abstracts, claims, and IPC/CPC codes to determine the novelty risk and identify potentially blocking prior art.

Yes, you can use an invention brief file. The system processes the text to extract search concepts, then queries Google Patents, Espacenet, Google Scholar, and arXiv to collect bibliographic details, IPC/CPC classifications, and academic disclosures.

The prior art report is generated as `patent/PRIOR_ART_REPORT.md`. This Markdown file summarizes the search strategy, categorized references, landscape overview, overlap risk levels, and recommendations for preliminary freedom-to-operate assessment.

A limitation of automated prior art search is that it provides a preliminary, non-exhaustive novelty screening. It does not fabricate citations but relies on existing database disclosures, meaning it should not replace a formal legal opinion for final patentability or FTO decisions.