Patlytics

What is Patlytics?

Patlytics is an AI-powered patent intelligence platform that helps law firms and corporate IP departments draft, analyse, enforce and manage patents. It combines semantic search across more than 130 million patents and 300 million literature sources with an AI agent that produces claim charts, invalidity arguments and draft applications, each tied to cited evidence.

The company is based in New York and was co-founded by CEO Paul Lee and CTO Arthur Jen. It raised a $14 million Series A led by Next47 in February 2025, followed by a $40 million Series B led by SignalFire in April 2026, bringing total funding to about $65 million. Its team includes former USPTO examiners, big-tech IP counsel and litigators, and it recently opened a London office. The platform is live and sold through demos.

Key Features

• Patent infringement detection: Patlytics crawls public products and documents for evidence that may read on your claims, then drafts claim charts automatically. Each mapping carries citations, so attorneys can check every element against the source before using it.
• Invalidity analysis: Patlytics searches prior art and builds §102, §103 and §112 arguments against a target patent. The company describes visual heat maps that show which references cover which claim elements, helping litigators rank the strongest prior art quickly.
• Application drafting: Patlytics turns an invention disclosure into a first-draft patent application. The company reports that a biotech customer saved between $5,000 and $7,500 per application, though drafts still need attorney review before filing.
• AI invention disclosure: Patlytics converts unstructured inputs such as engineer notes into structured invention disclosure forms. The Series A release added that it runs a prior art search at this stage, so weak ideas can be filtered out early.
• Agent with 200+ skills: Patlytics Agent is a reasoning layer that the company says holds more than 200 patent-specific skills. It sits across the modules, so one request can combine search, claim construction and analysis steps.
• Semantic patent and NPL search: Patlytics indexes more than 130 million patents and over 300 million non-patent literature sources, according to its website. Prosecution histories come preloaded, which saves a separate trip to the patent office records.
• Portfolio pruning and classification: Patlytics ranks the assets in a portfolio and stores them in a Patent Vault with classification tags. IP managers can use the rankings to decide which patents to maintain, license or let lapse.
• Office action and specialist workflows: Patlytics reviews examiner rejections and suggests response strategies for office actions. It also offers freedom-to-operate, standard essential patent and claim construction workflows for teams handling licensing or product clearance.

Pros

• Covers the full patent lifecycle: Patlytics handles disclosure, drafting, prosecution, litigation and portfolio work in one workspace. Teams avoid stitching together separate search, drafting and charting tools, and outputs from one stage can feed the next.
• Large reported time savings: Patlytics customers report cutting project time by about 80 percent. One Am Law 100 firm reportedly finished a 120-patent portfolio review in 20 hours instead of 100, adding roughly $38,000 in margin.
• Strong security credentials: Patlytics holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certification and states it is GDPR compliant. It also says client data is never used to train or tune models, which matters for confidential invention work.
• Citation-backed outputs: Patlytics links each claim chart element and argument to its source document. That makes the work reviewable, so attorneys can verify the AI’s reasoning instead of trusting an unexplained answer.
• High reviewer satisfaction: Patlytics scores 4.9 out of 5 from 30 reviews on G2, and 4.7 out of 5 on Software Finder. Reviewers single out faster patent searching, readable AI summaries and a clean interface.
• Proven with major clients: Patlytics lists Canon, Panasonic, Rivian, Sanofi and Nissan among its customers. Its Series B announcement says more than 40 percent of Am Law 100 firms use the platform.

Cons

• No public pricing: Patlytics does not publish prices, and every plan starts with a booked demo. Software Finder estimates industry benchmarks of $800 to $2,000 per user each month, so smaller firms should budget carefully before engaging sales.
• Learning curve on advanced features: Patlytics reviewers on G2 say non-technical users need time to master the deeper analysis tools. Futurepedia’s ratings also mark onboarding as more involved than for simpler patent search products.
• Limited third-party integrations: Patlytics lists only a Relativity integration, and that one is still on a waitlist. Software Finder and Futurepedia both flag integration as a weaker area, so outputs may need manual export into docketing or document systems.
• Rigid reporting and exports: Patlytics reviewers say dashboard layouts and report formats offer little flexibility for specialised workflows. Presentation-ready outputs often need extra editing outside the platform before they reach clients.
• Slower on large datasets: Patlytics can slow down when processing large datasets, according to G2 reviewers. Some users also need several search iterations to reach tightly targeted results, which eats into the time savings.

Who is Using Patlytics?

• Am Law 100 firms: Building claim charts and invalidity contentions for litigation.
• Corporate IP teams: Running infringement checks and pruning patent portfolios.
• Patent prosecutors: Drafting applications and answering office actions.
• Licensing teams: Analysing standard essential patents and freedom to operate.

Pricing

Patlytics uses custom, quote-based pricing with no public plans or free tier (checked October 2026 on the official site).

Software Finder quotes an industry benchmark of $800 to $2,000 per user per month, but this is an estimate rather than a Patlytics figure.

Ask for a written quote covering seats, modules and data limits before you compare it with other patent tools.

What Makes Patlytics Unique?

An evidence-first workflow is the main differentiator: Patlytics finds infringing products, maps them claim by claim and attaches citations, so the output reads like reviewable work product rather than a chat answer. The same workspace then carries that analysis into invalidity, drafting and portfolio decisions. Add ISO 42001 certification for AI management, a pledge not to train on client data, and adoption by a large share of Am Law 100 firms, and it is built for high-stakes legal work rather than casual patent searching.

Compatibilities and Integrations

• Platform: Cloud-based web application accessed in the browser.
• Integrations: A Relativity integration announced, with a waitlist open.
• Data sources: More than 130 million patents, 300 million literature sources and preloaded prosecution history.
• Security: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR and AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit.

Patlytics Tutorials

Getting started runs through the sales team rather than a self-serve sign-up.

1. Book a demo on patlytics.ai and describe your patent workloads.
2. Agree the modules and seats your team needs in a custom quote.
3. Upload invention disclosures or enter target patent numbers in the workspace.
4. Run an infringement, invalidity or drafting workflow and review the cited results.
5. Export the claim charts or drafts and finish them with attorney review.

How We Rated It

Summary

Patlytics suits Am Law firms, in-house IP teams and licensing groups that handle large volumes of infringement, invalidity and drafting work. Its cited claim charts and security credentials make it a serious option for confidential litigation. The main drawbacks are opaque pricing and a learning curve on advanced features. Before signing, ask for a pilot on a few of your own patents so you can measure the time saved.