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What the Shoes Taught Me About Agentic Search

Michael Chernoff takes us from patent “shoes” to AI agents and shares why he joined Clerq to help shape what comes next.

NLPatent Rebrands to Clerq; Unveils the Next Generation of IP Intelligence Built to Execute Patent Work End-to-End

NLPatent rebrands to Clerq to meet growing demand for patent automation

NLPatent Is Now Clerq

Why We Changed Our Name and What Five Years of Building a Foundation in AI-Based Prior Art Search Made Possible

NLPatent Rebrands as Clerq, Expands Into Agentic Patent Workflows

NLPatent’s Stephanie Curcio on the AI Transformation of Patent Practice

Park IP and NLPatent Partner to Connect Patent Intelligence and Global IP Support

Preferred provider agreement makes NLPatent search, monitor, and visualize available inside Park IP's Legal Studio for global filing and translation.

From Searcher to Strategist

AI absorbs the manual middle of patent search, moving experts into strategic reads on landscape signals and raising a new succession question.

The Patent Portfolio Problem Nobody's Actually Talking About

Companies renew patents long after strategy has moved on, driving 71% of maintenance costs into the years no one reviews. How to fix that habit.

The AI Ethics Waterfall: Disclosure, Governance, and Who’s Really Responsible

AI quietly spreads through patent workflows via vendors and foreign associates, so disclosure duties blur. Questions to ask counsel and providers now.

Kicking Off 2026 at CES: What NLPatent Learned as First-Time Attendees

Six takeaways from NLPatent's first CES: saturated categories, global competition, shrinking differentiation, and why IP is now core to business strategy.

NLPatent Launches Non-Patent Literature Search With Access to 160M+ Documents

NLPatent users can now search 160M+ journals, standards, dissertations, and reports side by side with patents in one prior art workflow.