How Global Prior Art use IPRally to classify vast and complex patent landscapes

An AI that mimics manual classification

Global Prior Art (GPA) is a leading IP search company specializing in patent intelligence that serves a diverse clientele, from legal professionals seeking well-founded opinions based on comprehensive, accurate searches to corporate clients making strategic business decisions to strengthen their competitive edge.

Brendan Sever is Assistant Managing Director. Specializing in complex and rapidly evolving technical fields, he and his colleagues rely on a combination of methodologies to unearth critical information for their clients – insights that are often buried within tens of thousands of patent documents. Historically, GPA has relied on keyword searching and manual reviews of patents across multiple languages and jurisdictions. While these methods remain integral to their processes, the rapid surge in global patent filings and the increasing complexity of technical fields have increased the need for scalable and efficient solutions.

“We’ve seen major advancements in patent search and classification software recently, with a wide range of solutions varying in performance. Some are fast and efficient at retrieving information but often sacrifice accuracy – especially if you’re trying to classify an entire universe of patents. For our needs, IPRally’s classifier is a perfect fit. It offers high accuracy and approximates a manual review while accelerating the process, so we can focus on diving into the findings and getting creative with our analysis”, Brendan says.

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Augmented IP intelligence

GPA boasts deep expertise across diverse technical fields, from medical devices to biotechnology and semiconductors. By integrating IPRally’s AI-powered classifier into their workflows and combining it with expert human oversight, GPA has achieved significant advancements in both efficiency and accuracy when analyzing intricate patent landscapes.

“Combining human and artificial intelligence brings us much closer to our goal of maximum efficiency and accuracy and the advantage of this augmented intelligence approach only grows when you do periodic updates. Once you’ve built the classifier and mapped the landscape, revisiting it becomes far more efficient, allowing you to track emerging trends and evolving technologies with much greater precision. Plus, the classifiers are fully customizable, allowing us to use any taxonomy that fits the project and analyze the patent space independently of language, keywords, and official classes.”

Timely deep insights

Whether tracking evolving IP trends in semiconductors, guiding R&D decisions and patent filing strategies, or identifying early patents for a stronger defensive position, IPRally empowers GPA to go beyond surface-level results and uncover deeper, more strategic insights.

“IPRally’s classifier empowers us to deliver timely, accurate insights into vast, complex, and rapidly evolving technology spaces. It provides visibility into the R&D efforts of large companies with diverse portfolios, as well as emerging IP strategies. Additionally, it has helped us uncover unexpected players and potentially valuable portfolios for our clients.”

More on this topic

In a recent in-depth report, GlobalPrior Art (GPA) explores the fast-evolving patent and technology landscape shaping the future of semiconductor design. To gain insight into this complex technology space, a transformative methodology was employed which combined the technical expertise of GPA's team who reviewed relevant patents and IPRally’s powerful AI Classifier trained to identify relevant patents hidden among the tens of thousands of semiconductor patents.

The methodology behind the report was also covered in this webinar.

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