LexisNexis unveiled Protégé, a natural language AI assistant that translates questions like “What are the top M&A targets in biotech?” into patent analytics insights. The firm positions the new offering as eliminating the need for users to master complex database syntax in the company’s PatentSight+ platform. The assistant parses a user’s prompt, maps it to…
How trade secrets, green tech, and Asia’s rise redrew the 2024 USPTO patent map
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—yet AI patents aren’t exploding the way you might expect. Could it be that innovators are keeping their best secrets out of the USPTO’s public view? “When we look at AI patents, we see machine learning going down, likely because AI is absorbing it. It’s not necessarily that there’s less AI activity;…