Lighting the way: how solar R&D teams are innovating toward a brighter future
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Solar R&D is evolving fast—from PV cells to grid systems. See how teams use Patsnap Eureka to focus faster and outpace the market.
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Novelty search: how AI is transforming patent prior art analysis
Category: IP | Category: novelty search | Category: prior art search
Friday, May 2, 2025
Manual novelty search is slow, inconsistent, and risky. Learn how AI agents streamline prior art analysis to boost grant rates and eliminate wasted effort.
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Why diversity is the secret ingredient to innovation success
Category: Article | Category: innovation | Category: IP | Category: R&D | Category: Research
Monday, April 28, 2025
Discover why diversity is critical to innovation success. Learn how diverse teams drive better outcomes, unlock new markets, and fuel inclusive innovation with data-backed insights.
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How AI for patent infringement detection empowers smarter IP protection with Patsnap Analytics
Category: AI | Category: Alerts | Category: IP | Category: Patent Protection | Category: Patsnap Analytics | Category: R&D
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
AI for patent infringement detection is helping teams catch hidden risks earlier, reduce litigation exposure, and stay ahead of enforcement threats.
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AI for patent search: Rethinking how innovation intelligence works with Patsnap Analytics
Category: IP | Category: Patent Strategy | Category: Patsnap Analytics | Category: R&D
Monday, April 21, 2025
Traditional patent search is no longer enough. Domain-specific AI is now essential for decoding complexity, surfacing trends early, and turning patent data into strategic advantage.
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From signals to opportunities: how investors identify early-stage trends
Category: best practices | Category: Investors | Category: signal detection
Monday, April 14, 2025
Signals like stealth patents, niche scientific papers, and early regulatory moves don’t show up in traditional financial data.The only way to gain a strategic edge is by detecting these signals before they turn into trends.
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Signal detection for R&D: how to surface early trends and act before competitors do
Category: best practices | Category: R&D | Category: signal detection
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
High-performing R&D teams gain first-mover advantage by detecting early signals—like niche patents, rising citations, or method migration—before trends become visible to competitors.
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Patsnap and Paitrix Settle Patent Legal Battle
Monday, April 7, 2025
Patsnap announced today that it has resolved its dispute with Paitrix, a Taiwanese company that sued Patsnap for patent infringement in the patent hotspot of Western District of Texas. This settlement comes shortly after Patsnap successfully convinced a magistrate judge to find Paitrix’s patent invalid.
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Why data quality is make-or-break for AI in IP and R&D
Category: AI | Category: best practices | Category: data quality | Category: IP | Category: R&D
Monday, April 7, 2025
Most AI failures in R&D and IP stem from bad data—solving it starts with structured, domain-specific, and context-rich inputs.
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The hidden bottlenecks that slow R&D—and how to fix them
Category: best practices | Category: innovation | Category: R&D
Friday, March 21, 2025
From information overload to collaboration silos, inefficiencies can stall even the best-funded innovation efforts. Here’s how leading teams are overcoming six common roadblocks—and what it takes to move faster.
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Optimizing the R&D scientist’s workflow: from experiments to real-world impact
Category: best practices | Category: innovation | Category: R&D | Category: scientists
Thursday, March 6, 2025
By reducing manual tasks and streamlining workflows, AI helps scientists focus on discovery, ensuring breakthroughs move from the lab to real-world impact.
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How R&D leaders balance innovation, execution, and commercialization
Category: best practices | Category: innovation | Category: leadership | Category: R&D
Thursday, March 6, 2025
The best R&D leaders don’t rely on luck. They build repeatable, scalable systems that transform ideas into viable products while aligning research with business impact.
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The future of AI and patents: ethical challenges and opportunities
Category: AI | Category: Ethics | Category: IP | Category: Patents
Thursday, February 20, 2025
AI is transforming patents, but who owns AI-generated inventions? This blog explores the ethical and legal challenges shaping the future of AI in intellectual property.
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How AI-powered IP intelligence is reshaping patent strategy
Category: AI | Category: best practices | Category: IP | Category: Patent Strategy
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
AI-powered intelligence allows IP teams to keep pace with an evolving landscape, making data-driven decisions that protect and strengthen their competitive position.
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Rethinking R&D: the power of TRIZ in problem-solving
Category: best practices | Category: innovation | Category: R&D | Category: TRIZ
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Innovation comes with trade-offs. TRIZ helps R&D teams break through contradictions and develop breakthrough solutions with precision.
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Cross-industry innovation: the key to breakthroughs in R&D and IP
Category: innovation | Category: IP | Category: R&D
Friday, January 10, 2025
Cross-industry innovation is transforming R&D and IP by uncovering hidden connections between fields. Patsnap empowers teams to break silos, analyze trends, and discover game-changing opportunities to stay ahead of the competition.
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From idea to invention: how Patsnap Eureka supercharges innovation for R&D teams
Category: innovation | Category: Patsnap Eureka | Category: R&D
Thursday, January 9, 2025
As part of Patsnap’s AI-powered innovation platform, Eureka enables IP and R&D teams to collaborate, uncover actionable insights, and drive measurable results. With advanced AI and domain-specific LLMs, Eureka empowers teams to identify opportunities, validate solutions, and innovate with confidence.
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Meet Hiro Life Sciences: Your Trusted AI Assistant for Accelerated Drug Discovery
Category: Article | Category: Drug Discovery | Category: life sciences
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
AI is revolutionizing drug discovery by providing rapid access to vast and complex datasets, enabling researchers to quickly uncover valuable insights and connections that would be otherwise difficult to observe. By automating routine tasks, enabling advanced analytics, and streamlining workflows, AI is poised to make the entire R&D process significantly more efficient.
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Patsnap Surpasses US$100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue
Category: Article | Category: News/PR
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Patsnap has reached a significant milestone of achieving $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), marking an impressive 20% year-over-year growth in 2023. This milestone highlights the massive and meaningful value our platform brings to over 12,000 IP and R&D teams across 50 countries, driving efficiency, productivity, and collaboration.
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Introducing Hiro, an AI assistant built for IP and R&D workflows
Category: AI advancements | Category: AI development | Category: AI-tools | Category: Article | Category: artificial intelligence
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Powered by Patsnap’s industry-specific LLM, Hiro is designed to streamline IP and R&D workflows from ideation to product launch. With its robust AI capabilities, Hiro brings a new level of efficiency, precision, and security to tasks that were once time-consuming and labor-intensive.What sets Hiro apart is that it draws from our large language model that’s been trained on market-leading patent records, academic papers, and proprietary innovation data. This ensures we deliver more accurate and reliable results for every prompt.
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Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles: The Battle for Battery Innovation and Patents
Category: Article | Category: battery technology | Category: electric vehicle | Category: EV | Category: lithium ion | Category: lithium ion battery | Category: NEV | Category: new energy vehicles
Monday, April 22, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of innovation, the electric vehicle (EV) industry stands as a beacon of technological transformation. As we explore the patents propelling the EV revolution, Apple's venture serves as a poignant example of the challenges even industry giants face in this competitive arena. Join us on a journey through the global patent landscape, where the quest for superior power solutions unfolds, and where the true pioneers of the EV revolution are making their mark.
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The People vs. AI: Who Owns Ideas in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence?
Category: AI era | Category: AI-driven creativity | Category: AI-generated creations | Category: Article | Category: copyright and patent rights | Category: digital innovation | Category: innovation | Category: intellectual property law | Category: legal implications | Category: OpenAI Sora | Category: patent law | Category: Research Tag | Category: Sora | Category: text-to-video generative AI | Category: who owns AI
Monday, April 22, 2024
OpenAI’s Sora software, a text-to-video generative AI model, recently made headlines showing a series of 1-paragraph prompts and some high-quality footage generated based on those prompts. It is a rightfully impressive showing, but it’s still too early to identify how IP law will be disrupted by generative AI. This editorial delves into the multifaceted landscape of Sora's impact, offering insights into the future of innovation and ownership in the AI era.
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Revolutionizing Biosequence Analysis: Introducing the First Modification Search Tool
Category: AI | Category: artificial intelligence | Category: biological sciences | Category: biosequence | Category: biosequence analysis | Category: biotechnology | Category: chemical modification | Category: drug development | Category: drug developpment | Category: intellectual property | Category: life sciences | Category: pharmaceutical | Category: pharmaceuticals | Category: R&D | Category: research and development | Category: sequence | Category: sequence modification | Category: sequence searching | Category: therapeutics
Friday, April 19, 2024
Introducing the world's first chemical modification search tool! Search for site-specific modifications, with or without a query sequence, drawing from a database of over 1.5M modified sequences in Patsnap Bio. By facilitating the comprehensive retrieval and understanding of sequence modification data, Patsnap Bio empowers researchers, IP professionals, and R&D personnel to effectively approach the design and optimization of world-class therapeutics.
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Transforming Patent Intelligence: Patsnap Partners with BizInt Smart Charts
Category: News/PR | Category: Partnership
Thursday, February 1, 2024
In a significant development for patent professionals worldwide, Patsnap has collaborated with BizInt Smart Charts to empower users with streamlined data integration. This strategic partnership facilitates the direct export of Patsnap data into BizInt Smart Charts for Patents, simplifying the transition from patent search to comprehensive analysis.
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Patsnap’s Analytics Launches Family Mode Searching
Friday, December 8, 2023
Introducing Family Search Mode! Explore patent innovation like never before with Patsnap's Analytics, treating each patent family as a data unit for enhanced insights into interconnected technologies
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Patsnap Makes Strong Foray into Japanese Market
Friday, November 24, 2023
Patsnap, the world's leading AI-powered innovation intelligence platform, has made successful inroads into the Japanese market in a bid to catalyze a surge of innovation in the East Asian country.
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Patsnap Releases 2023 Global Innovation Report: The Brilliant Names to the Dynamic Landscape of Innovation
Category: Article | Category: eBook | Category: Research Tag | Category: Whitepaper
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The Global Innovation 100 and Global Disruption 50 transcend individual entities, each representing a small innovation ecosystem with numerous subsidiaries. Through the innovation data of these companies, we gain insights into the characteristics, structures, and trends of global innovation.
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Patsnap’s 2023 Disruption 50: A Closer Look at Tomorrow’s Innovators
Category: Article | Category: eBook | Category: Research Tag | Category: Whitepaper
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Through active growth, the Global Disruption 50 have quickly established solid technology quality and profound technology influence that are comparable to that of the Global Innovation 100.
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Impact of Patsnap’s 2023 Global Disruption 50
Category: Article | Category: eBook | Category: Whitepaper
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The 2023 Global Disruption 50, 30% of which come from the Information Technology sector, are shifting the world’s innovation focus from a physical world of Atoms, to a digital world of Bits, and then a “world of Atoms empowered by Bits”.
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The Origins of Patsnap’s 2023 Global Disruption 50
Category: Article | Category: eBook | Category: Whitepaper
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Most of the Global Disruption 50 started from scratch, while a few of them derived from academic institutions and existing tech giants.
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