Thorough prior art
in less time
The examiner's job is to find what was known before. Keyword search finds what was said in the same words. Knowledge discovery finds what was known — regardless of words.
The examiner's gap
Patent examiners are expected to find prior art that anticipates or renders obvious every claim in an application. The standard tools — keyword search across patent databases — find prior art that uses the same terminology.
But applicants do not always use the same terminology as the prior inventors. A claimed invention in one technical domain may have been disclosed years earlier in a completely different domain — and keyword search will never find it.
COP-based knowledge discovery finds conceptually equivalent disclosures across all domains simultaneously. Better office actions. More defensible rejections. Fewer appeals on prior art grounds.
Cross-domain prior art
Find prior art in adjacent and unexpected technical fields that directly anticipates the claimed invention — without knowing which field to search in advance.
Ranked results
Results ranked by conceptual relevance, not keyword frequency. The most relevant prior art surfaces first, reducing the time spent reviewing irrelevant references.
Documented search strategy
Every search is documented and reproducible. The conceptual basis for each result is explicit — supporting well-reasoned office actions.
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