Patent & IP Monitor
Weekly alerts on new patent filings in your technology area — plain-English summaries, competitor filing detection, and opportunity analysis delivered to your chat.
What You Will Get
Patent databases are a goldmine of competitive intelligence that almost nobody uses. Every time a competitor files a patent, they are telling you exactly where they are investing R&D resources 12-18 months from now. The problem is that patent filings are written in dense legal language, buried in clunky government search portals, and there are thousands of new ones every week. Nobody has time to sift through that.
After this setup, your agent runs a weekly scan of patent databases using tavily-search and agent-browser to check USPTO, Google Patents, and other public registries. It filters filings by your technology keywords and competitor names, then uses the summarize skill to translate each relevant patent from legalese into a plain-English paragraph: what it does, who filed it, and why it might matter to you.
You get a clean weekly report on Telegram, Slack, or WhatsApp. Each entry includes the patent title, applicant, filing date, a one-paragraph summary in normal language, and a relevance score. The agent also flags filings from your named competitors separately so you never miss when a rival is building something new. Over time, this becomes your early-warning system for market shifts that haven't hit the news yet.
Setup Steps
Set up your patent monitoring pipeline in about 15 minutes.
Install the Required Skills
Message your agent: "Install the tavily-search skill, the agent-browser skill, the gog skill, and the summarize skill." Tavily handles patent database searches. Agent-browser navigates patent office websites when needed. Gog performs additional web searches. Summarize translates legal language into readable summaries.
Define Your Technology Keywords
Message your agent: "My patent monitoring keywords are: [list specific technologies, e.g., 'solid-state battery electrolyte,' 'transformer architecture pruning,' 'CRISPR delivery mechanism']. Use these to search patent databases weekly." More specific terms produce less noise.
Add Your Competitor Watch List
Tell the agent which companies to track: "Flag any patent filings from: [Company A], [Company B], [Company C]. These are my main competitors. Highlight their filings in a separate section of the report." Include parent companies and subsidiaries if they file under different names.
Set the Report Format
Message your agent: "For each relevant patent, include: title, applicant name, filing date, patent number, a 2-3 sentence plain-English summary, and a relevance note explaining why it matters to my field. Group by: competitor filings first, then other relevant filings."
Configure the Weekly Schedule
Set up a cron job in your RunTheAgent dashboard to run every Monday morning. The prompt: "Run my weekly patent scan for new filings from the past 7 days and send the report." Monday works well because weekend filings are often published early in the week.
Run a Test Scan
Before waiting for the cron job, message your agent: "Run a patent scan for [one of your keywords] for the past 30 days." This lets you verify the output quality and adjust keywords before the first automated run.
Tips and Best Practices
Use Technical Terms, Not Brand Names
Patent filings describe inventions in technical language. Search for "lithium-ion solid electrolyte interface" rather than "better batteries." Check a few existing patents in your area to learn the vocabulary the patent office uses.
Track Patent Classification Codes
Once you find relevant patents, note their CPC or IPC classification codes. Tell your agent: "Also include any new filings under classification code [X]." This catches related innovations you might not have keyworded for.
Watch for Filing Clusters
If a competitor files 3-5 patents in a short window around the same technology, that is a strong signal they are building something significant. Ask your agent to flag when any single applicant has multiple filings in one week.
Add a Quarterly Trend Summary
Set a monthly or quarterly cron job that asks: "Summarize patent filing trends in [my field] over the past 90 days. Which companies are most active? What themes are emerging?" This gives you a strategic overview beyond individual filings.
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