An innovative AI-powered system to reduce the cost of monitoring IP portfolios for infringement and monetisation opportunities by approximately 95%

NLPatent是一家领先的人工智能法律科技中小企业，其核心项目团队由James Stonehill（联合创始人，CTO和项目负责人），Dario Berloven博士（高级应用科学家，NLP博士）和Stephanie Curicio（联合创始人兼首席执行官）组成。专利制度是创新的核心，奖励创新者公开披露他们的发明，以便后代可以从他们的创新中受益。企业需要能够有效地监控其知识产权组合，以发现侵权行为。有效的监测还使企业能够发现交叉许可的机会，并规划有效的研发战略。然而，对于成千上万的企业来说，使用现有的解决方案来监控他们的专利组合可能非常昂贵，每年的成本从数千英镑到数百万英镑不等，具体取决于组合的规模。英国政府已经确定中小企业需要有效地货币化和保护他们的知识产权;然而，这种高成本仍然是一个障碍。NLPatent旨在通过其人工智能驱动的专利监控系统来解决这个问题，该系统定期扫描公司的专利组合，以寻找他们拥有专利的技术领域内的新申请，从而自动检测可能的侵权行为。NLPatent对新技术的创新性早期采用将使其系统能够以成本和时间效率的速度执行这些扫描。NLPatent的目标是将人工智能的力量引入知识产权服务，使企业（尤其是中小企业）能够保护其知识产权组合并将其货币化，而无需在知识产权服务和法律的费用上花费大量资金。节省下来的资金可以直接用于研发，推动英国各地的创新和创造就业机会。通过使希望创新的企业能够这样做，该项目符合政府的创新战略。

NLPatent is a leading AI LegalTech SME with a core project team of James Stonehill (co-founder, CTO and project lead), Dr Dario Bertero (senior applied scientist with a PhD in NLP) and Stephanie Curicio (co-founder and CEO).The patent system is at the core of innovation, rewarding innovators for publicly disclosing their inventions so that future generations can benefit from their innovations. Businesses need to be able to effectively monitor their IP portfolios in order to detect infringement. Effective monitoring also enables businesses to identify cross-licensing opportunities and plan effective R&D strategies. However, for the thousands of businesses, monitoring their patent portfolio using existing solutions can be hugely expensive, costing from thousands to millions of pounds annually depending on portfolio size. The UK government has identified the need for SMEs to effectively monetise and protect their IP; however, this high cost continues to be a barrier.NLPatent is aiming to address this with its AI-powered patent monitoring system that regularly scans companies' patent portfolios for new filings within technology areas for which they have patents to automatically detect possible infringement. NLPatent's innovative early adoption of novel technologies will enable its system to perform these scans at a cost and time-efficient rate. The system will then generate insights to enable clients to determine whether they would like to take action against new similar filings.NLPatent's aim is to bring the power of AI to IP services and enable businesses, particularly SMEs, to protect and monetise their IP portfolios without spending a fortune on IP services and legal fees. The money saved could be directed towards R&D, driving innovation and job creation across the UK. By enabling businesses that wish to innovate to do so, this project aligns with the government's Innovation Strategy.