🔬 IP Intelligence Tools

A suite of open-source tools for patent search, portfolio management, and IP intelligence.

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The Problem With Patent Data

Patent intelligence workflows typically require three things that don't come together easily:

1. Discovery — finding what exists across jurisdictions, by competitor, by technology area
2. Portfolio management — tracking your own filings, statuses, and family relationships
3. Translation — turning dense patent language into something a business team can actually use

Most tools do one of these. This suite does all three.

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The Workflow

                    ┌─────────────────────────────┐
                    │       patent-scraper        │
                    │                             │
                    │  Search any assignee across │
                    │  US, WO, EP, JP, CN & more  │
                    │  → structured Excel output  │
                    └──────────────┬──────────────┘
                                   │
                        Discovery & landscape
                        Competitive intelligence
                        Prior art research
                                   │
                                   ▼
                    ┌─────────────────────────────┐
                    │     patent-lookup-tool      │
                    │                             │
                    │  Enrich your own portfolio  │
                    │  with live GP data + AI     │
                    │  invention summaries        │
                    └─────────────────────────────┘
                                   │
                        Portfolio tracking
                        Family aggregation
                        Plain-English summaries
                        Licensing one-pagers

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The Tools

🔭 patent-scraper

Who's filing what — and where?

Search any assignee across global patent systems and pull structured, analysis-ready data. Built for competitive intelligence, prior art research, and technology landscape analysis.

Best for:

• Monitoring a competitor's R&D pipeline
• Building a patent landscape for a technology area
• Prior art searches across jurisdictions
• Tracking filing trends over time

Highlights:

• Searches US, WO, EP, JP, CN and more via SerpAPI + Google Patents
• Deduplicates records across jurisdictions
• Interactive assignee review step catches false positives
• Downstream analytics: grants by year, co-assignees, jurisdiction heatmaps, word clouds, t-SNE clustering
• Parallel fetch for large portfolios

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📋 patent-lookup-tool

What do we have — and what does it mean?

Takes your own patent portfolio spreadsheet and enriches it with live data from Google Patents and EPO, then generates AI-powered plain-English summaries of every invention.

Best for:

• Tech transfer offices tracking their portfolio
• IP counsel auditing a client's filings
• Researchers documenting innovation outputs
• Licensing teams preparing outreach materials

Highlights:

• Handles US utility, design (29/xxx), and PCT/WO filings
• Groups filings into patent families with aggregated dates and statuses
• AI-generated technical + plain-English invention summaries — no prompting required
• Data quality flags: detects wrong patents, title mismatches, provisional-only families
• Color-coded two-sheet Excel output

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Combined Use

The two tools are designed to work together:

1. Use patent-scraper to pull a competitor's full filing history → identify technology gaps or licensing opportunities
2. Use patent-lookup-tool on your own portfolio → understand what you have relative to what you found
3. Export both to Excel → compare side by side for strategic analysis

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Getting Started

Each tool has its own installation instructions and configuration:

• → patent-scraper README
• → patent-lookup-tool README

Both tools auto-detect missing dependencies and offer to install them on first run.

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License

Both tools are released under the MIT License.

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Built for IP teams who want intelligence, not just data.