Do I need to know anything about patents to use IdeaJudge?

No. IdeaJudge translates newly published patent applications into plain-language Product Impact Decision Briefs. You share your company website, and your AI Product Intelligence Team handles the rest — mapping your product focus, monitoring relevant filings, and writing decision-ready summaries.

How can you see a patent before it hits the market if filings are kept secret at first?

By law, all patent applications remain confidential for 18 months after their initial filing date before the USPTO, EPO, or WIPO publicly publishes them. IdeaJudge surfaces these filings the exact week they are publicly published. Because it typically takes a company 3 to 5 years of total development time to take a technology from the initial engineering phase to a commercial product launch, public patent publication still gives you a 1 to 3-year early-warning signal before that competitor's product appears in the market, trade shows, or marketing channels.

What happens if nothing matches my product for a while?

That is the point. You pay for assurance that if something important appears, you will see it in time. Silence means nothing relevant matched your product focus — not inactivity on our side.

Sample briefing

See what a briefing looks like for your company.

We’ll map your product focus from your website, identify a recent U.S. patent application that matters to it, and email you the Product Impact Decision Brief our AI team produces.