The AI clerk for patent professionals.
Assign the work. Keep the judgment.
Cited, reasoned prior art research, under your direction.
Patent work gets done differently now.
Clerq runs your prior art research end-to-end, returning a cited report. Review and refine the agent's work anywhere along the way, run every step yourself with Search and Intelligence, or build your own workflows with our API. Each option runs on the NLPatent model, trained to understand the language of patents.
Agents
Prior art research, run by an agent you direct.
Assign anything from a quick go-or-no-go check to a deep, feature-by-feature analysis. Clerq identifies key elements, constructs the terms, plans the search strategy, and analyzes everything that comes back the way an expert would.
Start from anything — raw documents, images, or a patent number
Get back a claim chart — every element mapped to the art
Runs from start to finish in minutes, under your supervision
Search
Reads for the concept, not just the words.
Upload a document, describe an invention in plain language, or input a patent number. What comes back is the closest art in the corpus - even when it's worded nothing like your query.
Filters, kewords, and boolean logic, layered in or on their own
Ranked by relevance, refined by what you save
Interrogate the results with free-form questions or relevance analysis
Intelligence
Turn patent data into charts, maps, and alerts.
Zoom out from individual patents to the whole landscape — who's active, what's crowded, where the white space is. Then let Clerq keep watch — the picture stays current with alerts delivered straight to your inbox.
Cluster any portfolio or technology area into a visual map
Visualize filing trends and competitor activity in shareable dashboards
Monitor new filings and office actions — flagged by concept, not keyword
API & MCP
Industry leading patent search, in your stack.
The same model that underpins Clerq, exposed as a REST API and MCP server — for teams that need patent search and analysis inside their own commercial products, platforms, and internal workflows.
High-recall semantic search in real time
Relevance-ranked results as a structured JSON
The right patent context for agents and RAG pipelines
Why Clerq
Clerq is built for the precision that patent work demands.
Clerq shows its work
Every conclusion comes with the citation, the passage it relies on, and the reasoning that got it there. You review Clerq's report like any work product that crosses your desk.
You set the checkpoints
Run a full workflow with review gates at every stage - confirm the direction, adjust, let it continue. Or let a quick check run straight through. How much oversight, and where, is always your call.
Your data stays yours
All models run in a private cloud environment. Client data is never used for training, and never leaves our secure infrastructure. We're ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant.
Our Customers
Real names. Real impact.
Patent professionals don't stake their reputation on just any tool. The firms and IP teams below are a few of the many who trust Clerq with real work - and the impact was immediate. Here's what that looks like, in their words.
“Clerq has gone from helping me search to doing the work under my direction. What comes back minutes later reads like an expert did it.”
500M
Patent and non-patent literature documents from every major jursdiction searched before Clerq answers
5 Years
Building a model that understands patents the way you do — the foundation our agents stand on
2000+
Professionals at top law firms and innovative companies have made Clerq part of their practice
Resources
Patent work is changing fast. We’re taking notes.
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