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NLPatent Is Now Clerq

Why We Changed Our Name and What Five Years of Building a Foundation in AI-Based Prior Art Search Made Possible

From Searcher to Strategist

AI absorbs the manual middle of patent search, moving experts into strategic reads on landscape signals and raising a new succession question.

NLPatent Secures $3M to Help Patent Professionals Work Smarter, Faster, and with Greater Confidence

Draper Associates and Mighty Capital co-lead a $3M round to fund NLPatent's agentic platform for completing, not just supporting, patent workflows.

Park IP and NLPatent Partner to Connect Patent Intelligence and Global IP Support

Preferred provider agreement makes NLPatent search, monitor, and visualize available inside Park IP's Legal Studio for global filing and translation.

The Patent Portfolio Problem Nobody's Actually Talking About

Companies renew patents long after strategy has moved on, driving 71% of maintenance costs into the years no one reviews. How to fix that habit.

The AI Ethics Waterfall: Disclosure, Governance, and Who’s Really Responsible

AI quietly spreads through patent workflows via vendors and foreign associates, so disclosure duties blur. Questions to ask counsel and providers now.

Kicking Off 2026 at CES: What NLPatent Learned as First-Time Attendees

Six takeaways from NLPatent's first CES: saturated categories, global competition, shrinking differentiation, and why IP is now core to business strategy.

NLPatent Launches Non-Patent Literature Search With Access to 160M+ Documents

NLPatent users can now search 160M+ journals, standards, dissertations, and reports side by side with patents in one prior art workflow.

Counting ROI or Chasing Hype: Stephanie Curcio on the True Test of AI in Patents

Stephanie Curcio Recognized in IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders 2026

Choosing the Right AI for the Right Problem

Why generic AI misses the mark in patent work, and how a purpose-built platform delivers explainable results and roughly 90% time savings per project.

Introducing NLPatent Visualize

NLPatent Visualize turns any search or portfolio into an AI-generated topic map, surfacing white space, competitor clusters, and trends in seconds.