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技术中小企业，其核心项目团队由James Stonehill（联合创始人、首席技术官和项目负责人）、Dario Bertero博士（高级应用科学家，拥有自然语言处理博士学位）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，它奖励公开披露其发明的创新者，以便后代能够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，以便发现侵权行为。有效的监控还使企业能够识别交叉许可机会，并制定有效的研发战略。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是非常昂贵的，根据专利组合的大小，每年要花费数千到数百万英镑。英国政府已经认识到，中小企业需要有效地将自己的知识产权货币化并加以保护；然而，这种高成本仍然是一个障碍。NLPatent的目标是通过其人工智能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，在他们拥有专利的技术领域内寻找新申请，以自动检测可能的侵权行为。NLPatent创新的早期采用新技术将使其系统以低成本和高效率的速度执行这些扫描。然后，该系统将生成见解，使客户能够确定他们是否愿意对新的类似申请采取行动。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费用上花费大量资金。节省下来的钱可以直接用于研发，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，该项目与政府的创新战略保持一致。

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.