Monday, March 23, 2026
As the dust settles on semaglutide's patent expiry, Life Sciences IP Review looks at what comes next for the GLP-1 landscape. With next-generation drugs delivering close to 30% weight loss in trials, patent protection stretching to 2038 and beyond, and Asia-Pacific emerging as a key battleground, the race to replace Ozempic is already well underway.
Friday, March 20, 2026
As Novo Nordisk's key semaglutide patent expires across ten countries, Life Sciences IP Review examines what this means for the global diabetes and weight-loss treatment market. With generic competitors racing to launch cheaper alternatives and India emerging as a major battleground, the piece explores the patent cliff facing one of the world's best-selling drugs and what comes next for the GLP-1 landscape.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
R&D World puts PatSnap's Eureka Scout platform to the test in a hands-on review, exploring how its proprietary PatsnapGPT model handles everything from competitor patent analysis to technology trend mapping. The reviewer finds a platform that goes well beyond traditional patent search, delivering rich data visualisations, cross-domain insights, and AI-powered workflows that make complex IP research accessible to a much broader audience.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Business Insider explores how Southeast Asian tech startups are increasingly setting their sights on the US market, featuring PatSnap as a standout example. Co-Founder and APAC General Manager Guan Dian shares how the US was always a priority market for PatSnap, with more than half of its customers now based there, and how the company refined its positioning around AI-powered features for industries like biotech and advanced manufacturing to win in the world's most competitive market.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
PatSnap Founder and CEO Jeffrey Tiong shares his perspective on how AI agents are reshaping research and development. Drawing on real-world examples across biopharma, materials science, and IP workflows, he makes the case for domain-specific agents over general-purpose models, and explores how multi-agent architectures are compressing timelines from weeks to days. A grounded, practical perspective on what it takes to make AI a reliable partner in high-stakes R&D environments.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
PatSnap is featured in Bloomberg's coverage of Southeast Asia's AI-fueled tech boom, highlighting the company as one of the region's standout players navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and innovation intelligence.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
CNBC profiles Jeffrey Tiong, founder and CEO of PatSnap, tracing his journey from a fresh graduate with a SGD 55,000 government grant to building a unicorn with over $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Tiong opens up about the dark times, the self-doubt, and the pivotal moments that shaped him as a leader, offering an honest and inspiring look at what it really takes to build something great from the ground up.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Greenbot explores how PatSnap's AI-powered Eureka platform is helping companies like Tesla, Disney, and Dow Chemical dramatically cut down research time, turning weeks of R&D legwork into seconds. The piece dives into how Eureka's proprietary AI model and strict data security standards are setting a new benchmark for innovation intelligence in product development.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Fast Company introduces Patsnap Eureka, an AI-powered tool designed to streamline the earliest and most critical stages of product development. The piece explores how Patsnap Eureka helps R&D teams quickly surface relevant patents, scientific findings, and competitive insights, cutting down the time it takes to move from initial idea to market-ready innovation. A timely feature on how Patsnap continues to push the boundaries of what innovation intelligence can do.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Asia IP speaks with PatSnap Co-founder and APAC General Manager Guan Dian on how AI is reshaping patent search and data analytics across the region. Guan Dian discusses how PatSnap's proprietary LLM and AI assistant Hiro are breaking down barriers in the patent information sector, boosting IP productivity by 75% and reducing R&D wastage by 25%, as Asia cements its place as a rising hub for global technology innovation.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
SINGAPORE-BASED companies have made a strong showing in an inaugural list of Asean’s 30 top tech start-ups, accounting for 21 of them. The NextGen Tech 30 list, released on Sept 24 by tech venture-capital firm Granite Asia, includes patent database Patsnap, fintech firms ShopBack and Aspire, and cyber-security firm Ensign Infosecurity.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
A deep dive into the entrepreneurial journey behind PatSnap, exploring how its founder raised USD 300 million to build a leading AI-powered innovation intelligence platform and what it takes to help businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions on a global scale.
Monday, August 19, 2024
Nikkei Asia reports on PatSnap's plans to expand its AI-powered patent search capabilities, highlighting the Singapore unicorn's ambitions to deepen its footprint in the global innovation intelligence market.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
PatSnap Co-Founder and CMO Guan Dian takes the stage at Echelon X to discuss how AI has been central to PatSnap's global expansion, from building proprietary models to scaling its platform across 50 countries.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Unite.AI sits down with Carl Rost, Principal Consultant at PatSnap, for a deep dive into Hiro, PatSnap's proprietary AI assistant for R&D and IP professionals. The interview explores how Hiro's industry-specific LLM outperforms general models like GPT-4 on IP tasks, how it handles vast patent databases with full source transparency, and what the next decade of AI in intellectual property and research and development could look like.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Forbes explores how AI is transforming the way companies approach research and development, featuring PatSnap's Eureka platform as a prime example of how innovation intelligence tools are accelerating the R&D process for teams worldwide.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
KrASIA takes a deep dive into PatSnap's journey to USD 100 million in annual recurring revenue, exploring how the company has built a global footprint in innovation intelligence. The piece covers PatSnap's strategic roots in China, its self-sustaining business model, and how its growing suite of AI-powered tools, including Eureka and CoPilot, are helping R&D and IP teams innovate faster across life sciences, materials science, and beyond.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
PatSnap hit US$100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2023, with AI playing a central role in driving that growth. Tech in Asia takes a closer look at the milestone, and the rapid expansion of PatSnap's life sciences user base, which surpassed 200,000 users.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
In this Tech in Asia feature, PatSnap reveals its seven-figure investment into developing its own large language model, underlining the company's commitment to building proprietary AI capabilities from the ground up. The piece explores what this investment means for PatSnap's product roadmap and how it positions the company as a serious AI player in the innovation intelligence space.
Monday, May 27, 2024
In this Business Times feature, PatSnap Co-Founder and APAC General Manager Guan Dian joins Vertex Ventures General Partner Carmen Yuen to explore where South-east Asian companies can carve out a competitive edge in the generative AI landscape. Using PatSnap as a case study, the piece highlights how proprietary data, purpose-built LLMs, and domain-specific applications are key to building a defensible AI moat, and how PatSnap's AI assistant Hiro is putting that advantage to work for innovators and R&D teams around the world.
Monday, May 13, 2024
PatSnap Co-Founder and APAC General Manager Guan Dian took the stage at Echelon X to discuss how PatSnap has embedded AI into its DNA since 2015, long before it became an industry buzzword. From building proprietary AI models to curating over 15 years of high-quality patent and research data, Guan Dian unpacks what it truly means to be an AI-first company and how that philosophy is powering the next wave of innovation intelligence for R&D teams around the world.
Monday, May 13, 2024
In this feature, Artificial Lawyer sits down with Eric Topel, General Counsel at PatSnap, to explore why legal innovation often stalls not with the GC, but in the C-suite. Topel shares his perspective on how CEOs shape the culture around legal investment, the case for keeping more work inhouse, and why fixed fees and financial discipline matter in modern legal practice. A candid look at what it takes to build a proactive, technology-forward legal function from the inside out.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
In this feature, Legaltech News speaks with PatSnap's General Counsel on navigating the road ahead for AI regulation, including preparation for compliance with the EU AI Act. He shares what the next few months look like for a global innovation intelligence platform operating at the intersection of AI and intellectual property, and what businesses can learn from getting ahead of the regulatory curve.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Singapore-headquartered unicorn PatSnap has declared itself self-sustainable, signalling a new chapter of financial independence for one of the region's most prominent innovation intelligence platforms.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Singapore-based PatSnap, established in 2007, has introduced CoPilot, an AI assistant designed to enhance the efficiency of IP and R&D professionals. CoPilot is a significant addition to PatSnap’s suite of AI products, aiming to expedite patent and non-patent literature searches, ultimately facilitating faster workflows across the company’s product range.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Singapore-based Patsnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it’s building out its suite of AI products with the launch of its AI assistant CoPilot. CoPilot lets users search patent and non-patent literature more quickly, which the company says will make IP and R&D workflows faster across Patsnap’s entire product suite.