AI-Powered Prior Art Search

What a prior-art search answers

Prior art is any information made public before your filing date that may disclose features of your invention: patents, published applications, scientific papers, products, and other public disclosures. A prior-art search asks a precise question: has this combination of features already been disclosed, and how close is the closest reference?

The answer shapes everything that follows—whether to file, which features to claim, and how to describe the advantage over what already exists.

How the Discovery Agent works

You describe the invention in your own words. The agent identifies its essential technical features, expands terminology and synonyms, and searches patent literature semantically, so results appear even when other documents use different wording.

• Concept-based search beyond exact keywords
• Relevance ranking against the essential features of your invention
• Reference viewer with bibliographic data and key passages
• Saved references connected to the drafting project
• Patentability analysis on every paid plan, delivered for your review

From search results to better claims

Saved references stay attached to the invention. When The Drafter builds claims, it can emphasize the features that distinguish your invention from the closest documents and prepare dependent claims that give you fallback positions.

Results you read with judgment

No search can guarantee that every relevant document was found. Patentability and freedom-to-operate (FTO) analyses from IPnite are AI-assisted deliverables: you are responsible for reading them or having them reviewed by a qualified professional, and IPnite does not guarantee their conclusions.