AI agent for patent agents
Competitor Filing Watch Agent
Relevant competitor filings are found within a week and sent to the client as short alerts.
What it does
New competitor patent publications are noticed late and by chance. This agent searches new publications every week for named competitors and classes, scores relevance to the client's claims, checks family members and drafts alerts. If the search brings too much noise or too little, it adjusts the search terms and tries again. It decides relevance from the overlap between a publication's claims and the client's technology. The patent agent approves what is sent. Edge case: a publication from a competitor's subsidiary matches the client's field but the competitor name is not in the list, so the agent catches it by class and flags the owner.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Weekly search starts
- Search new publications by competitor and class
- Remove duplicates and family members already seen
- Score relevance to the client's claims
- Is the result set a useful size and relevance?If not: adjust the terms or classes and search again. Back to step 2.
- Check family members and legal status
- Draft alerts for the top results
- Patent agent approves what goes to the clientThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Weekly watch report
How it decides
It scores a publication high when its claims overlap the client's technology and a named or related competitor owns it. It lowers the search breadth when more than 50 results are low relevance.
- Alert on a publication with a high relevance score
- Search by class when the owner is unknown
- Narrow the search when over 50 low-score results appear
- Check the legal status of cited family members
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Competitor list
- Classes
- Relevance threshold
- Noise limit (default 50)
- Alert format
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Patent agent approves each alert before it is sent
Hard limits
- Never send an alert without approval
- Never claim a publication infringes or is valid
It stops when
- Done: a clean list of relevant publications is delivered
- Stop: no relevant data source is available
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
