IPscreener

What IPscreener does

IPscreener is a Swedish SaaS company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Stockholm that operates an AI-powered patent intelligence platform. The platform combines a proprietary semantic AI search engine with worldwide patent database coverage spanning USPTO, EPO, WIPO, CNIPA, JPO, and KIPO, and offers six integrated tools: Invention Manager (AI-assisted invention disclosure drafting), Search Case (semantic patent search with text and image analysis), Creative Studio (chat-based prior art exploration), Claim ChartPro (visual claim mapping), Monitoring & WorkflowPro (automated patent monitoring with custom workflows), and an upcoming AI Agent for autonomous novelty search and freedom-to-operate analysis. All AI processing runs on IPscreener's own self-hosted infrastructure in Sweden, with no client data sent to third-party AI providers such as OpenAI or Google, enabling Swedish and EU data sovereignty.

The company sells through a hybrid go-to-market model: a free product-led growth trial with no credit card required for individuals and SMBs; a Pay-per-Case usage tier and a Monthly Subscription tier for self-serve paying customers; and a sales-led Enterprise motion with custom pricing, SSO, advanced security, SLA, dedicated account management, and API access for large corporate IP departments. Distribution also includes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that allows ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to connect to the platform directly, and a hardware accelerator program (Toolspace/Ideaction) that introduces early-stage startups.

IPscreener serves IP professionals and patent attorneys, corporate R&D and IP departments at large multinationals (named customers include Philips, ABB, HP, Electrolux, Novartis, Rockwool, Danfoss, Roche, Getinge, Norrsken, and Lowenstein Sandler), telecommunications companies analysing standard-essential patents via the 3GPP add-on, and early-stage hardware startups. The company states 500-1,000+ signed companies and 20,000-30,000+ analyzed cases, and its evaluation claims are anchored by a published research collaboration with TU Vienna using 175,000 test queries across 35 WIPO technical domains.

Name

IPscreener

Legal name

IPscreener

Website

https://ipscreener.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

IPscreener is a Stockholm-based Swedish SaaS provider of an AI-powered patent intelligence platform that enables IP professionals, corporate R&D teams, and startups to validate innovation ideas, run prior art searches, and generate invention disclosures using proprietary self-hosted AI.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Patent Intelligence Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAMAI

IP Search, Watch & Competitive Intelligence

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Intellectual Property (IP) & Patent Services

SECONDARYHDAEANAA

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

SECONDARYHDAEANAH

Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

Keywords

• Patent intelligence software
• Prior art search
• Invention disclosure management
• Freedom to operate analysis
• AI patent analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Pay-per-Case: Customers pay only when they run a case. No monthly commitment required. Full access to all features is included per case. Suitable for occasional or infrequent users who prefer a consumption-based model.
2. Monthly Subscription: Flexible monthly subscription with unlimited cases, all products and features included, team collaboration tools, and priority support. Users can upgrade to annual billing to save. Cancel anytime.
3. Enterprise / Custom Volume Pricing: Custom pricing for large corporates and enterprise teams. Includes custom volume pricing, dedicated account manager, SSO and advanced security, custom integrations and API access, SLA and onboarding support.
4. Free Account / Trial: Users can create a free account and start searching patents instantly with no credit card required. All plans include access to the self-hosted AI, making free tier a lead-generation and PLG mechanism.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

IPscreener offers a cloud-based SaaS platform that uses proprietary semantic AI to search, analyse, and report on worldwide patent data. The platform combines multiple integrated tools — Invention Manager, Search Case, Creative Studio, Claim ChartPro, Monitoring & WorkflowPro, and an upcoming AI Agent — to support the full IP workflow from innovation validation and prior-art discovery to invention disclosure drafting, claim charting, and ongoing patent monitoring. All AI processing runs on IPscreener's own infrastructure in Sweden, ensuring client data never touches third-party providers.

Product overview

IPscreener is a Swedish AI-powered patent intelligence platform founded in 2019, offering a suite of six integrated tools for the complete IP research workflow. The platform centers on a proprietary semantic AI engine that processes text inputs to search, analyze, and report on worldwide patent data. Core products include: Invention Manager for creating AI-assisted invention disclosures; Search Case for AI-powered patent search with text analysis; Creative Studio for chat-based prior art exploration; Claim ChartPro for visual mapping of claims against documents; and Monitoring & WorkflowPro for automated patent monitoring with custom workflows. An upcoming AI Agent will provide autonomous novelty search and freedom-to-operate analysis. Add-on data options include 3GPP standards coverage and Internal Index for enterprise proprietary data. All products run on 100% self-hosted AI infrastructure in Sweden, ensuring data never touches third-party AI providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Invention Manager

Quantifiable outcome

• Analysis completed in under 3 seconds for worldwide patent searches
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability10 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TU ViennacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with TU Vienna to review and refine evaluation procedures for AI patent search tools. The partnership established a platform for automated quality assessment using 175,000 test queries (patent examination citations) spread across technical classes. Output of the research included mapping results to WIPO's 35 generic technical domains, enabling transparent, user-friendly performance comparisons across AI search tools. This collaboration underpins IPscreener's claims of measurable, comparable quality — a key differentiator in its evaluation-focused marketing.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Patentics: Patentics is an AI-driven semantic patent search and analytics platform known for R-language based ranking algorithms, serving IP professionals and R&D teams with semantic novelty, citation, and landscape search capabilities — directly comparable to IPscreener's AI-first semantic search positioning.
• PatSnap: PatSnap is a leading AI-first patent intelligence and innovation analytics SaaS platform serving enterprise R&D, IP, and corporate strategy teams with global patent coverage, semantic search, landscape analytics, and competitive intelligence — a direct head-to-head competitor to IPscreener across product and target customer.
• Orbit Intelligence (Questel): Orbit Intelligence is Questel's enterprise patent search and analytics suite providing worldwide patent coverage with AI-assisted features for prior art search, landscape, and FTO analysis, targeting corporate IP departments and patent attorneys — closely overlapping with IPscreener's Search Case, Claim ChartPro, and Creative Studio.
• The Lens: The Lens is a free, nonprofit global patent and scholarly search platform offering worldwide patent coverage with semantic and citation search across multiple jurisdictions — competes with IPscreener on coverage and prior-art search but differs as a free public resource rather than a paid SaaS.

Broad incumbents

• Google Patents: Google Patents is Google's free patent search engine covering major patent offices worldwide with machine translation and basic semantic search — a free, non-commercial incumbent that competes at the entry point for casual patent search and pressures IPscreener's PLG and freemium funnel.
• Clarivate: Clarivate is a large IP and scientific information incumbent offering Derwent, Innovation, PatentSight, and Compass products spanning patent analytics, landscape, competitive intelligence, and SEP analytics — overlaps with IPscreener as a broad incumbent across enterprise IP but with a much larger portfolio of products and established enterprise relationships.
• Anaqua (Cipher): Anaqua acquired Cipher (formerly CPA Global) to offer end-to-end IP management, analytics, and patent intelligence for large corporations and law firms — competes broadly with IPscreener's enterprise IP workflow offering as part of a wider IP management suite rather than as a specialized patent search tool.
• LexisNexis PatentSight: PatentSight is a LexisNexis product providing patent portfolio valuation, quality scoring, and competitive benchmarking for enterprise IP strategy — overlaps with IPscreener's enterprise IP analytics and landscape use cases as part of a broader legal/information incumbent portfolio.

Emerging players

• Relecura: Relecura is an AI-based patent analytics platform offering patent valuation, landscape, and technology intelligence with semantic search — emerging niche player overlapping IPscreener on enterprise IP analytics with particular strength in technology categorization and patent valuation.
• IPlytics: IPlytics is a specialized SEP and standards-essential patent analytics platform for telecom, IoT, and automotive companies — directly comparable to IPscreener's 3GPP/SEP offering and an emerging player in the SEP intelligence niche where IPscreener is also positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ipscreener

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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