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IP Author for AI assistants

Patent intelligence inside the AI you already use.

Connect IP Author to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Mistral or Grok, and run prior art searches, file wrapper analysis, examiner comparisons and claim charts without leaving your assistant.

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Compare the two examiners who could pick up our wireless decoding application, and summarise how each handles §103 rejections.IP AuthorUsed IP Author · examiner comparison · Office Action searchI compared both examiners on grant rate, rejection mix and how often their §103 rejections were withdrawn after a response. Here is a side-by-side summary, with the Office Action passages behind each point.
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Patent work, in plain words.

Your assistant calls IP Author’s patent tools behind the scenes and answers from IP Author’s patent data, with the sources in view.

Prior art and novelty
Search patents and non-patent literature from a plain description, with novelty assessed against what you find.
“Is this sensor design novel? Find the closest prior art.”
Prosecution history
Pull a US application’s full file wrapper, cited references, claim amendments over time and earlier response arguments.
“How have the claims of this application changed since filing?”
Office Action research
Search millions of past US Office Action rejection passages to see how examiners have argued similar points.
“Find §103 rejections that rely on the same combination of references.”
Examiner analytics
Compare two examiners side by side: grant rates, the mix of rejection grounds and what moves an application forward.
“Compare these two examiners on §101 and §103.”
Freedom to operate
Run a guided freedom-to-operate review with ranked risks and open questions, and download the report as Word, Excel or PDF.
“Which in-force patents could this product feature read on?”
Claim charts and SEPs
Build evidence-of-use claim charts and assess whether patents are essential to a standard.
“Chart claim 1 of this patent against this product.”
Landscapes and portfolios
Generate landscape reports and step through a company’s patent portfolio.
“Map the patent landscape for capacitive liquid sensing.”
Patent documents
Search 183 million patent publications worldwide and download full-document PDFs in bulk.
“Download the full text of these five patents.”
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Add IP Author straight from the Claude and ChatGPT directories.

No setup files and no tool names to learn. Add IP Author once, sign in with your IP Author account, and your assistant picks the right IP Author tool for each question.

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IP Author for Claude
Listed in the Claude connector directory
  1. 1Open the IP Author listing in the Claude directory.
  2. 2Click Connect to add IP Author to your Claude account.
  3. 3Sign in with your IP Author credentials when asked.
  4. 4Start a new chat and ask your patent question in plain English.
On Team and Enterprise plans, an organization owner may need to enable the connector first.
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IP Author for ChatGPT
Available in ChatGPT’s Plugins page
  1. 1In ChatGPT, click Plugins in the left sidebar.
  2. 2Search for “IP Author” and click +.
  3. 3Sign in with your work email, enter the 6-digit code we send you, and click Allow.
  4. 4Open a new chat. Starting with “Using IP Author,” makes sure ChatGPT picks it up.
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Examples

Real answers, from real IP Author data.

The results below come from searches and charts we ran in IP Author. The conversations are shown for illustration.

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Find prior art for a smart water bottle with a capacitive fill-level sensor.IP AuthorUsed IP Author · prior art searchThe closest reference is US-11410585-B2, with a similarity score of 58. It discloses an e-ink display that shows the time since last use, but not a capacitive liquid-level sensor or adaptive hydration reminders.
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Chart claim 1 of US-10463170-B2 against this portable bassinet.IP AuthorUsed IP Author · evidence of useLiteral coverage is 37%, with claim 1 the strongest. Limitation 1[A] reads literally; review whether “play yard” reaches a product sold as a bassinet before relying on the chart.

What patent attorneys say about IP Author.

“What used to take me two or three days to draft a patent application can now be done in a few hours. If you’re not using tools like this, you’re not benefiting your clients.”
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Thomas Loop
Senior Patent Attorney & Managing Partner, Loop IP Law
“Over the weekend, I tried the IP Author Patent Drafting tool for adding specific protein/peptide sequences to claims. It can actually renumber the sequences and name the peptides. This is an impressive tool.”
Dean Phelps
Dean Phelps
Patent Attorney, Adler Pollock & Sheehan
“What used to take days of manual prior art searching can now be done in minutes. IP Author identifies highly relevant references quickly and transparently.”
John Miller
John Miller
Global Intellectual Property Leader, Chevron Oronite

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How have the claims of this application changed since filing?
IP AuthorUsed IP Author · claim evolution
Here is each amendment to claim 1, in order, with the Office Action it answered…