AI holds a vast and unique potential to impact the field of intellectual property. It carries within it the seeds to build new forms of productivity and to shake at the foundations of established practices. However, that is not to say that everything that can be done with AI should be done with AI. That’s why at Questel, we take an ethical approach to software development with AI that places the user at the heart of our innovation.

At Questel, we are not just innovating for innovation’s sake; we are committed to ensuring that our advancements benefit users in meaningful ways. Our approach to AI is guided by the principles of responsibility, transparency, and respect for the expertise of human professionals. 

We use AI technology to boost semantic search, similarity search, automatic classification and to verify patent data in our IP Intelligence Software. By simply entering paragraphs of English text, users can retrieve and analyze relevant patent documents across the entire patent database, including patent information, invention disclosures, scientific abstracts/paragraphs, and technical descriptions. As data quality is the foundation of all forms of analysis, our AI methodologies also use deep learning to clean up assignee information, including highlighting name errors, aggregating patent families, and proposing corrections ready for human verification.

Shortly, we will launch our AI Assistant (a large language model (LLM)-based patent claims comparison system) to provide users with rapid access to patent insights and information, such as patent summaries, claims summaries, and publication comparisons. What makes this new tool particularly exciting is how quickly technology has evolved as we have developed it.

We have integrated AI-boosted 'one-click' workflow technology to standardize and streamline the preparation and prosecution process for patent owners, using simple chat interactions to instantly analyze complex documents, automatically collect data insights, and promote strategic stakeholder collaboration. With no set-up or internal resources required, you can start to realize the efficiency benefits immediately of this easy-to-use dedicated AI copilot for patent preparation and prosecution.

Using leading-edge natural language generation and machine learning, we help IP professionals draft quality patents quicker using AI. Our intuitive interface combines knowledge from patent and intellectual property attorneys with Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce high-quality text proposals and/or validate text to reduce the number of objections during patent prosecution.

Our best-in-class similarity technology, powered by Predictive AI, allows users to search words and images in the description and detach the source image for ease of review.

Questel already uses Predictive AI in our world-class Clearance & Watch Platform, but there is more to come. AI tools could automate and enhance the brand creation proposal by proposing unique logos and product designs (Generative AI), support monitoring (AI Search Assistants), and automate monitoring to identify infringements and manage workflows for potential conflicts.

Our IP management software is at the heart of Questel's end-to-end integrated IP strategy. 

Double docketing, manual review, time-consuming data entry, and the high volumes of paperwork and emails that IP professionals receive daily lead to an increased risk of data-processing errors. We are investigating the use of AI to automate data verification, audits, reporting, and beyond.

Our combined online brand protection monitoring and tracking solution reduces the demands on brand owners by automatically detecting online threats according to pre-defined criteria and triggering pre-agreed automated alerts and notifications. All activity is coordinated via a centralized online case management system so that take-downs can be initiated rapidly or managed in bulk.

From machine translation (MT) to post-editing and quality checks, we streamline and automate translations through the smart application of AI translation technologies. Our AI-boosted translation and editing tools provide a first or final check on translations for expert review, identifying grammatical errors, leveraging knowledge from similar translations that have been completed previously, and offering real-time editing suggestions to linguists as they translate.

We are harnessing the potential of AI technologies to not only streamline and automate translations but also to put our clients in greater control of the entire end-to-end process. Through Predictive AI, we can enable clients to analyze quality, price, availability, and capacity to determine the best choice of vendor or linguists for a specific project or task.

Drawing on our artificial intelligence and intellectual property technology, our invoice management module assigns and groups invoices to a patent lifecycle phase to reduce the time required for human review.

Through our strategic partnership with the innovative Swiss-based company, ipQuants, we are enabling clients to harness the potential of AI-automated workflows to elevate patent prosecution. Along with streamlining the automation of document collection and response generation during prosecution, this collaboration offers IP attorneys an unparalleled platform for data analysis, trend spotting, and strategic decision-making. This new partnership also serves to increase the AI capabilities and expertise of the entire Questel group.

To find out more about how we are leveraging AI to simplify patent prosecution work, watch our on-demand webinar featuring Tony Afram of ipQuants and Dr. Andres Buser of F. Hoffmann-La Roche.