Patlytics
Patlytics is an end-to-end AI platform for patent work, covering infringement detection, invalidity analysis, drafting, office actions and portfolio management. Built for IP firms and in-house patent teams, every output ships with verifiable citations.
What is Patlytics?
Patlytics is a patent-specific AI platform published by Patlytics, Inc., a Delaware company headquartered in New York and marketed as "The Premier AI-Powered Patent Platform". It covers the full lifecycle in one web application: invention disclosure, drafting, prosecution, search, analysis and litigation.
The analysis side groups seven modules, namely Infringement, Invalidity, Freedom To Operate, Standard Essential Patent, Portfolio Analysis, Patent & NPL Search and Claim Construction. The drafting side adds Patent Drafting, Office Actions and Invention Disclosures, while Patent Vault + Classification, Patent Pruning and Claim Charts handle day-to-day portfolio management. Running across all of them, the Patlytics Agent can be used on its own or called inside any module.
Feeding those modules is an indexed corpus of more than 130 million patents and over 300 million non-patent literature documents, with prosecution history pre-integrated so claim constructions are anchored in the record. Semantic search can be bounded by date range, and crawling is localized by language and jurisdiction.
The central claim is verifiability rather than raw generation: every output is cited, backed by auditable sources and color-coded for relevance. Claim charts are produced limitation by limitation, stay editable, and export to Word or Excel. That is the platform's own answer to hallucination risk, and it is worth reading next to the terms of service, which are explicit that Patlytics does not provide legal advice and that a human must review every AI output.
Credibility comes partly from who built it: an in-house IP team of former USPTO examiners, IP counsel from large corporations and Am Law litigators, plus an advisory board including Michelle K. Lee, former USPTO Director, and Paul S. Grewal, former federal magistrate judge.
Access is deliberately gated. There is no self-service sign-up and no published price: you book a demo, sign an Order Form, and named users then log in at dashboard.patlytics.ai. It is a web application only, with no mobile app and no public API. Contractually, the customer owns its outputs and article 6 of the terms commits Patlytics to never training models on customer materials.
What it does
- Detect infringement and generate cited claim charts, limitation by limitation
- Analyze validity: novelty, inventive step, patent and non-patent prior art
- Draft complete patent applications from an invention disclosure
- Analyze office actions and produce responses to examiner rejections
- Assess freedom to operate before a product launch
- Build essentiality charts against standards for SEP work
- Classify, prune and steer a patent portfolio
When to use Patlytics / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Patlytics is the right fit.
When to use Patlytics
- IP litigation teams building infringement and invalidity cases: the Series B announcement puts 40% of the AmLaw 100 on the platform, with Quinn Emanuel, Latham & Watkins, Foley & Lardner and Susman Godfrey named as clients.
- In-house patent departments at large manufacturers and life-science groups, alongside named customers such as Rivian, Google, Panasonic, Sanofi, Canon, Asahi Kasei and Nissan.
- Prosecution counsel who draft applications from an invention disclosure and then work through office actions in the same place.
- Teams facing high volumes, where hundreds of patents have to be screened in a single pass for freedom-to-operate or portfolio review.
- R&D engineers and inventors filing invention disclosures themselves, through structured self-service forms rather than a counsel interview.
When not to use Patlytics
- Anyone looking for legal advice: the terms of service state in capitals that the platform "DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE", and article 6 makes human verification of every AI output mandatory.
- Trademark, copyright or contract practitioners: the scope is strictly patents, with nothing for other IP rights.
- Buyers who want to compare prices before speaking to anyone: there is no published pricing, no self-service sign-up, and access is opened only through a signed Order Form.
- Solo practitioners and small teams hoping to test first: there is no free plan and no free trial, and a sales demo comes before any access.
- Anyone under 16: the services are not intended for people below that age, and 16 to 18 year-olds need parental consent.
How to use Patlytics
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Start with the Book a Demo form on the site: name, work email, sector and how you heard about Patlytics. There is no other way in.
- Pick your sector on that form, from Litigation, Prosecution, Corporate / In-House or Other, so the demo matches your practice.
- Sign an Order Form. Access is then opened for named authorized users, whose credentials cannot be shared.
- Log in at dashboard.patlytics.ai. Nothing is installed and no developer setup is required.
- For infringement detection, begin from a claim, then either configure the run or skip straight to it.
- Configure if useful: priority limitations, adjustable claim constructions, target companies or jurisdictions.
- Launch the report. Detection runs are generally finished within a few minutes.
- Review the results: products mapped to patents with reading-strength scores, plus a claim chart written limitation by limitation.
- Export claim charts and rankings to Word or Excel; evidence captures are preserved with them.
- Chain the work: send a search result straight into invalidity, an invention disclosure or drafting, customize templates and prompts by jurisdiction and technology, and prompt the Patlytics Agent in natural language.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The no-training commitment is contractual, written into article 6 of the terms of service rather than living only on a marketing page.
- Certifications name the vendor itself: the security page states that Patlytics is SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certified, with external audits by NCC Group and A-LIGN.
- Ownership of the outputs is expressly assigned to the customer, Patlytics Templates aside.
- Functional coverage is unusually wide for a niche tool: one platform from invention disclosure through prosecution to litigation.
- Outputs are cited and verifiable limitation by limitation, with auditable sources and color-coded relevance.
- Domain credibility: an in-house team of former USPTO examiners, corporate IP counsel and Am Law litigators, an advisory board including Michelle K. Lee and Paul S. Grewal, and measured gains published under the customer's own name or profile.
- An EU Article 27 representative is appointed and named, which few US vendors of this size bother to do.
Cons
- No public pricing whatsoever: no pricing page, no range, no billing unit. Every rate sits inside a negotiated Order Form.
- No free plan and no free trial. A sales demo is a prerequisite, and access depends on a paid Order Form.
- No public API and no developer documentation, and the product is a web application only, with no mobile app.
- No nominative subprocessor list is reachable: the trust center at trust.patlytics.ai is JavaScript-rendered and its content could not be read. No DPA is published or even mentioned on the public site.
- Engagements renew automatically for one-year terms, with only 30 days' notice to stop them, and amounts paid are non-refundable and cannot be set off.
- Outputs may not be used for external benchmarking or comparison without written agreement.
- Delaware law and ICC arbitration in New York make recourse expensive and distant for a European customer.
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan and no free trial, and no price is published: the site has no pricing page, and none appears in its sitemap. Rates are fixed in each negotiated Order Form, so no entry-level amount, currency or billing unit can be stated. The terms of service provide that invoices are payable within 30 days unless otherwise agreed, that sums paid are non-refundable and cannot be set off, and that late payment carries interest of 1.5% per month or the maximum permitted by law if that is lower. Collection costs and attorneys' fees fall on the customer, as do all taxes other than Patlytics' own income tax. Subscriptions renew automatically for successive one-year terms, prices may be raised at renewal subject to 60 days' notice, and access may be suspended while an account remains unpaid.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Patlytics handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is stated, not implied. The security page shows a GDPR badge alongside SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, and Patlytics has appointed an EU Representative under Article 27: Ria Pardeep, ria@workstreet.com. The privacy policy, updated on 12 January 2026, sets out the legal bases relied on, namely performance of the contract, legitimate interest, consent and legal obligation, and lists the rights available: withdrawal of consent, access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and complaint to a supervisory authority. Patlytics describes itself as a processor when it handles data for a customer, the customer remaining controller. The terms of service were last updated on 27 August 2025. Transfers outside the EEA rely on a legally valid transfer mechanism that is never named, and data reaches US facilities and servers. Privacy contact: support@patlytics.com. Do Not Track signals are not honored.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms of service updated on 27 August 2025, the customer keeps all right, title and interest in its Customer Materials (article 4) and owns the Customer Outputs, with Patlytics assigning any rights it might hold in them. The single exception is Patlytics Templates, which stay with Patlytics but come with a perpetual license to the customer inside delivered work product. In return, the customer grants Patlytics a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license over its materials, limited to the term and to delivering the service. Patlytics keeps ownership of the platform and underlying software, and collects technical Usage Data that is shared only in aggregated, anonymized form.
Reuse rights
Customers can reuse what they produce without asking: they own the Customer Outputs and need no further permission to use them in filings, opinions or client deliverables. One written restriction applies, since the terms forbid using outputs for external benchmarking or public comparison without prior written agreement. On the vendor side, article 6 of the terms ("No AI Training") states that Patlytics does not use any Customer Materials to train any artificial intelligence models or systems; the security page repeats it ("never used to train models. Guaranteed.") and the site FAQ answers plainly that data entries are not used to train any AI model. Models are fine-tuned on public worldwide patent data instead, more than 50 million public patents according to the FAQ. Customer data is compartmentalized and segregated per organization, encrypted at rest and in transit with AES-256 applied to My Drive files, and access follows least-privilege rules. Patlytics does not sell personal information. Subprocessors are described only generically, covering hosting, cloud, IT, event management, emailing and web analytics, with Google Analytics named in the privacy policy, and no nominative list is published.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Patlytics is controlled and operated from the United States, and the privacy policy is explicit: personal information is transferred from the user's location to Patlytics' facilities and servers in the United States. Users are asked to consent to that cross-border transfer, and transfers out of the EEA are said to rely on a legally valid transfer mechanism, which the policy does not name. On the infrastructure side, the security page says the platform runs on secure cloud platforms but names no provider. Customer data is compartmentalized and segregated per organization, encrypted at rest and in transit, with AES-256 applied to My Drive files. Access follows least-privilege rules, and monitoring runs 24/7 with on-call coverage in North America and Asia-Pacific. For a European buyer, the practical picture is a single hosting jurisdiction, the United States, with no announced EU region, no named cloud vendor and no published subprocessor list, so safeguards over the transfer chain have to be obtained contractually rather than read off the site.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Patlytics.
- The terms exclude legal advice and require human verification of every output. No warranty is given on the accuracy, completeness or reliability of AI results, the service is provided "AS IS" with implied warranties disclaimed, and the customer assumes sole responsibility for all acts and omissions relating to output and features.
- Skill erosion is a real risk in a discipline built on judgment: a cited claim chart looks like finished work, which makes it tempting to sign off on an analysis nobody genuinely re-read.
- Liability is capped at the amounts paid over the preceding twelve months, which is thin cover if a flawed analysis feeds a filing or a case.
- Contracts renew automatically each year with only 30 days' notice to stop them, and prices may rise at renewal with 60 days' notice. Both dates deserve a diary entry.
- Publishing or comparing outputs is forbidden without written agreement, which limits how openly the tool can be benchmarked against alternatives.
- Patlytics may display the customer's name and logo as a reference, which is worth checking before signing if your matters are sensitive.
- Delaware law and ICC arbitration in New York, conducted in English, with export control and sanctions compliance left to the customer. One check does come back clean: the SOC 2 and ISO certifications name Patlytics itself, not a hosting provider.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low technical effort, but no self-service. Nothing is installed: Patlytics is a web application used at dashboard.patlytics.ai, and no developer skills are needed since there is no API to connect. Accounts are opened by the sales team after an Order Form is signed, with named credentials per authorized user, which cannot be shared. The customer remains responsible for its own security settings and access rights, and the terms expect cooperation on implementation and integration. Templates and prompts can be customized by jurisdiction and technology. Support is commercially reasonable, with response times per standard practice or the Order Form.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Patlytics train its AI models on my data?
Which security certifications does Patlytics hold?
How much does Patlytics cost?
Who owns the documents produced on the platform?
Where is my data hosted?
How long is my history kept?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Is there a minimum age to use Patlytics?
How much prior art does the platform index?
Can Patlytics replace a patent attorney?
Should you pick Patlytics?
Patlytics is an unapologetically narrow tool. Everything in it is built around a single right, the patent, and that focus is what makes it convincing where general-purpose legal AI often is not: the people behind the product come from the profession, and the advisory board carries names the patent world recognizes.
The contractual side is stronger than most. Output ownership is assigned to the customer, and the no-training commitment sits in article 6 of the terms of service, updated on 27 August 2025, rather than only on a marketing page. An EU representative under Article 27 is named. The privacy policy, updated on 12 January 2026, is specific about legal bases, rights and US hosting. Add a USD 40 million Series B and a reference client list, and vendor risk looks contained.
What is not contained is the budget question. Pricing opacity is total: no page, no range, no billing unit, no trial. Nothing lets a buyer size the spend before sitting through a sales demo, and the renewal mechanics, with automatic one-year terms, 30 days' notice and possible increases at 60 days' notice, deserve to be negotiated rather than accepted. There is also a genuine blind spot: the trust center is JavaScript-rendered and could not be read, so neither a nominative subprocessor list nor a DPA can be verified from the public site. European buyers should ask for both in writing, along with the transfer mechanism the policy mentions but never names.
The last reservation comes from Patlytics itself. Its own terms exclude legal advice and require a human to review every output. Cited, auditable results make that review faster; they do not remove it.
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