Agents
Patent work, run by an agent you direct.
Hand Clerq raw documents or a set of claims, and it runs the whole workflow - claim construction, search, and analysis. Pause it for your direction at every step, or let it run start to finish on its own. Work that used to take days comes back in minutes, at the depth you'd expect from an expert.
A growing set of workflows
The assignments Clerq takes on today and what's coming next. Each new workflow joins the same platform, so there's nothing new to learn.
Three workflows
Patentability
A cited read on whether an invention is patentable. Start with whatever you have, from raw documents to a draft application — Clerq handles the rest.
deeper analysis
Validity / Invalidity
Challenge or defend a granted patent — multipler rounds of search and analysis, pressure testing the issued claims against the art.
more on the way
What's Next
Freedom-to-operate, prosecution support, and beyond — each underpinned by AI that understands the language of patents.
why clerq agents
Patent work runs at different speeds. There's high-volume at one end, where teams get more disclosures than they can meaningfully review, and high-stakes on the other, where the analysis has to go deep and can't be rushed. Everything used to get pushed through the same pipeline. Clerq's agents are designed to flex with you: from automated triage in minutes, to directed analysis at depth.
You stay in control
Step in at any point to adjust the features, the terms, or the scope of the search — or let the workflow run without intervention.
Terms construed, before the search
Clerq breaks the input into elements and defines key terms — in directed workflows, each construction is yours to refine.
Analysis you can trust
Novelty and non-obviousness, assessed feature by feature in a claim chart — every reasoned conclusion cited back to the art that supports it.
How it Works
Hand Clerq the invention and it identifies features, defines terms, runs the search, and provides a detailed analysis — with as much of your direction as the matter needs.
Start from what you have
Unstructured raw documents, images, a draft application or patent number — no clean-up or preparation required.
Structure the input
A summary of the subject matter is generated and the invention's key elements are extracted.
Confirm the direction
Review and refine each element so everything downstream starts from exactly the right understanding.
Set the scope
Approve the term constructions, then choose the features to search — your selections focus the entire analysis.
Run the search
Multiple parallel queries across 500M patent and non-patent literature documents, on the NLPatent model.
Build the claim chart
Each feature mapped to the art, on its own and in combination — disclosed, partially disclosed, or not disclosed at all.
Expert-level report
Every reference cited, all the reasoning shown — each conclusion linked to the passage it relies on.
Direct the Work
Whatever the workflow, you're in control
A rough concept that needs a quick triage. An application headed toward filing. A granted patent you're seeking to challenge. Each gets its own workflow, with the level of control you set — depth, emphasis, checkpoints.
Every depth of assessment
From an automated go-or-no-go assessment to a full feature-by-feature analysis.
Emphasis where you place it
Flag what's core to the invention — Clerq will weight it accordingly.
Checkpoints where you want them
Review between any stages — or let the whole workflow proceed without pause.
Deep research
Beyond surface-level intelligence
Clerq orchestrates the search strategy the way an experienced searcher would — construing each key term from the technical record and expanding it to the concepts it actually covers, so the search reaches art that the words alone would miss.
Patents are just the start
When the best art lives outside patent documents, the search follows.
A campaign, not a query
Features searched alone, in combination, and through the analogous art.
Search what you mean
Adjust any part of the strategy until it's scoped exactly how you intend.
Expert-level ANALYSIS
Made for professionals who rely on results
Finding the art is only half the job. For every feature, Clerq weighs what the art discloses, identifies the closest references, and arrives at a defensible conclusion — with the reasoning in the report to check it against.
A chart for every reference
Element-by-element charts backed by passages from the specification.
Assess novelty and obviousness
Each disclosing reference and combination identified and explained.
Take the reasoning with you
Export in any format, or hand the report to an LLM of your choice to build on.
“Clerq has gone from helping me search to doing the work under my direction. What comes back minutes later reads like an expert did it.”
500M
Patent and non-patent literature documents from every major jurisdiction searched before Clerq answers
5 Years
Building a model that understands patents the way you do — the foundation our agents stand on
2000+
Professionals at top law firms and innovative companies have made Clerq part of their practice
Frequently Asked Questions
Clerq agents run patent workflows end to end. Hand over raw documents or a set of claims, and the agent constructs the claims, runs the search, and returns an analyzed report — pausing for your direction at every step, in an afternoon.
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