A suite of open-source tools for patent search, portfolio management, and IP intelligence.
Patent intelligence workflows typically require three things that don't come together easily:
- Discovery — finding what exists across jurisdictions, by competitor, by technology area
- Portfolio management — tracking your own filings, statuses, and family relationships
- Translation — turning dense patent language into something a business team can actually use
Most tools do one of these. This suite does all three.
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│ patent-scraper │
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│ Search any assignee across │
│ US, WO, EP, JP, CN & more │
│ → structured Excel output │
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Discovery & landscape
Competitive intelligence
Prior art research
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│ patent-lookup-tool │
│ │
│ Enrich your own portfolio │
│ with live GP data + AI │
│ invention summaries │
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Portfolio tracking
Family aggregation
Plain-English summaries
Licensing one-pagers
Who's filing what — and where?
Search any assignee across global patent systems and pull structured, analysis-ready data. Built for competitive intelligence, prior art research, and technology landscape analysis.
Best for:
- Monitoring a competitor's R&D pipeline
- Building a patent landscape for a technology area
- Prior art searches across jurisdictions
- Tracking filing trends over time
Highlights:
- Searches US, WO, EP, JP, CN and more via SerpAPI + Google Patents
- Deduplicates records across jurisdictions
- Interactive assignee review step catches false positives
- Downstream analytics: grants by year, co-assignees, jurisdiction heatmaps, word clouds, t-SNE clustering
- Parallel fetch for large portfolios
What do we have — and what does it mean?
Takes your own patent portfolio spreadsheet and enriches it with live data from Google Patents and EPO, then generates AI-powered plain-English summaries of every invention.
Best for:
- Tech transfer offices tracking their portfolio
- IP counsel auditing a client's filings
- Researchers documenting innovation outputs
- Licensing teams preparing outreach materials
Highlights:
- Handles US utility, design (29/xxx), and PCT/WO filings
- Groups filings into patent families with aggregated dates and statuses
- AI-generated technical + plain-English invention summaries — no prompting required
- Data quality flags: detects wrong patents, title mismatches, provisional-only families
- Color-coded two-sheet Excel output
The two tools are designed to work together:
- Use patent-scraper to pull a competitor's full filing history → identify technology gaps or licensing opportunities
- Use patent-lookup-tool on your own portfolio → understand what you have relative to what you found
- Export both to Excel → compare side by side for strategic analysis
Each tool has its own installation instructions and configuration:
Both tools auto-detect missing dependencies and offer to install them on first run.
Both tools are released under the MIT License.