Our Product Evolution

You can now select Cyprus, Moldova and Montenegro within Publication filters within IPRally’s search bringing the total countries with full text patent coverage to 58.

You'll now find these options available within search filters and Boolean search inputs.

Use AI to convert your free-text search query into optimised patent claim language input, improving search effectiveness and relevancy of your results set.

Simply click “REFINE” once you’ve inputted non-patent text, like an invention notification or a scientific paper abstract and see your input re-optimised into patent claim language for IPRally’s free text search.

Patent search isn’t a one-off task. It’s a process – a sequence of searches, reviews, and decisions that can easily become fragmented. That’s why we’re introducing Projects: a new way to organize, manage, and accelerate your work in IPRally. Projects act as a “container” for related search tasks, helping you manage multiple searches, capture relevance insights, and keep your work focused.

Key features include:

• Create multiple Searches in a Project – or add existing ones.
• Flag relevance of hits across searches: High, Medium, Low, or Ignored.
• Hide or show documents based on relevance, cutting noise and double work.
• Keep Ask AI questions and comments contained within the Project – no cross-contamination.
• Separate tabs for Relevant and Ignored documents to stay organized.
  

Projects will evolve to support automation, collaboration, and reporting in future updates.

Projects is available to all Professional and Enterprise license users and you can read more in our release blog here.

We've expanded our sorting capabilities to give you greater control over how you view and analyze your patent results. While AI scoring and Published date have been popular sorting options, we're now introducing Priority date sorting in response to your feedback.

This new sorting option allows you to:

• Arrange patents chronologically based on their earliest claimed priority
• Quickly identify pioneering technologies within your results set
• Trace the evolution of innovations over time with greater precision
  

Priority date sorting provides a crucial temporal dimension to your patent analysis, helping you understand the historical development of technologies and identify true innovations. This update streamlines your workflow whether you're conducting freedom-to-operate analyses, exploring the competitive landscape, or assessing the novelty of your own innovations.

Find this new sorting option in the results view dropdown menu, alongside our existing sorting capabilities.

We're excited to announce powerful updates to our search engine that improves the accuracy and relevance of your search results.

These enhancements include:

• An AI reranking system that analyzes and sorts search results, boosting accuracy by 11%
• An advanced neural parser that generates enhanced graphs from your free text and Number searches
• A new neural model that delivers approximately 2% improvement in overall results accuracy
  

Together, these improvements ensure that the most relevant documents consistently appear at the top of your results, saving you valuable time during patent reviews. The enhanced parsing capabilities also extract more meaningful insights from your queries, transforming your search data into more comprehensive and accurate results.

You can read more about our search improvements in our recent blog here.

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We're excited to announce that our powerful Image Search feature is now available for Lite License users! This enhancement directly responds to your feedback, extending visual search capabilities to R&D teams and non-IP specialists who need quick, intuitive ways to explore the patent landscape.

With Image Search for Lite Licenses, your technical teams can now:

• Launch patent searches using any visual material - from patent drawings to whiteboard sketches
• Discover relevant technologies by simply dropping an image into the interface
• Explore innovations through a visual-first approach, complementing traditional text-based searches
  

This update bridges another gap between IP professionals and R&D teams, making patent searches more accessible to visual thinkers. Whether your team works with technical drawings, photographs of existing products, flowcharts, or quick sketches, they can now instantly transform these visuals into comprehensive patent searches - no expertise in patent terminology required.

Introducing Smart filters, our latest feature that completely redefines patent dataset analysis. All of the pains that come with classical filtering are replaced by a simple, conversational and proactive assistant that works like an extension of your team.

In short, Smart Filters:

• Help to narrow down patent datasets intuitively by asking questions about them.
• Makes our Multi-patent Ask AI feature directly actionable, by 
  
  • detecting if the user asks a Yes/No question, 
  • answering the question based on each document, including both reasoning and a final answer: “Yes”, “No” or “Maybe”, and 
  • allowing users to filter their results set using those answers.
• Utilizes a large language model (LLM), currently Anthropic's Haiku 3, trained by IPRally to think like a patent professional, to generate the answers individually from each document. 

Smart filters not only removes the need for complex boolean filtering, but it can perform tasks that are practically impossible with Boolean.Learn more about our Smart Filters release and how it’s a major step towards IPRally’s vision of full automation, significantly accelerating patent reviews in our release blog.

Join us on February 25 for our launch webinar where we dive deeper into how Smart Filters works, best practice for utilising them and game changing use cases to use within your patent reviews ​​– sign up here.

We’re thrilled to introduce our new Lite License, designed in response to your feedback! This solution bridges the gap between IP professionals and other departments – particularly R&D teams who may lack deep patent expertise but still need actionable patent insights.

With the Lite License, your teams can enjoy:

• Simple free-text search capabilities
• Access to shared search results and collections
• A streamlined, user-friendly interface tailored for non-IP professionals

This intuitive solution makes it easier than ever for your technical teams to explore patent information, review findings, and contribute their expertise to patent-related decisions. Whether they’re assessing innovations or exploring the competitive landscape, the Lite License removes barriers between IP and R&D teams, encouraging collaboration and enabling more informed decision-making.

Discover how IPRally is empowering cross-functional teams to harness patent data for commercial success in our release blog.

You can now customize your export files to include exactly the information you need. Choose the documents you want, format them as XLSX, DOCX, or PDF files, and select the specific fields to include in your export. Additionally, you can incorporate Ask AI questions and answers, as well as other user-generated content, alongside the patent information – all in a single file.

For detailed instructions on how to create customizable exports, visit our guide in the IPRally Help Center.

When sharing a search case or collection, it is possible to leave a message for the recipients. This allows you to provide context regarding why you share the documents (for example in relation to a specific search project or use case), enabling the recipient to take more informed action on the request.

When you leave a message, your colleague can see it in the notification menu alongside the shared content and in the email notification.

We made the Boolean search experience better. Now, the search is faster and we store the results so that next time you open the search case, the results are unchanged and load instantly. Naturally, you’ll also have the option to refresh the search for the most up to date results.

Searches without wildcards are capped to 50 000 patent families and searches with wildcards are capped to 5000 families, which should satisfy most common needs. Note that full Boolean filtering of AI searches is also available.

The stand-alone Boolean search is still under a Beta flag until we have the Boolean monitoring implementation in place too, and have polished a few things. We are open for feedback.

You can find more information on the Boolean capabilities in the Help Center.

Our unique Image search feature allows you to start a patent search with a photo, technical drawing or flow chart, for example. The feature provides a quick start for e.g. novelty, state of the art, FTO or infringement searches, when the image is the best or only starting material available. Combining Generative AI and our core Graph AI in a powerful way, Image search finds similar technology quickly and even from patents without any images. Read more in our Blog.

Now, you can easily access the information of any family member using Ask AI, just by clicking the Ask AI icon next to the family member. You can both start a new conversation or switch to an existing conversation.

Our new AI model, called Graph Transformer 3.0, understands patents and technology again better, and has been released for all users and all search use cases. The model improves search recall by about 10% and cuts the review time needed by even more. Also the custom AI classifier takes advantage of the new model. The model, like our previous models, has been trained using Examiner citations across all fields of technology, and patents converted into knowledge graphs.

Now your work with creating perfect highlights is not wasted, but you can re-use them over multiple cases. Creating new presets and editing of existing presets, for example to add additional keywords, has been made easy.

Multi-patent Ask AI extends the capabilities of Ask AI to large data sets: search results and entire Collections. You can ask the same question from all of the documents in a list and get answers in seconds. The feature allows for conveniently reviewing the search results in deep and detailed level to narrow down to the most relevant hits. In addition, the feature enables for example summarization of search and monitoring results for delivery to R&D and (re-)analyzing complete patent portfolios for strategic decision-making.

When leaving a comment, users can choose whether it is private or public. You can now change the default preference from Settings—Comment settings.

Ask AI allows for asking questions about individual patents and get clear and concise answers using Generative AI model. The feature enables a variety of use cases from customized summarization to technical feature extraction. We have paid attention to keep the answers factual and minimize the probability for hallucinations. The feature is available for all search results and documents saved to Collections.

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