Ankar AI Ltd.

Ankar was founded by two software engineers who felt first-hand the pain of manual tasks to prosecution and defend an IP portfolio in house. They decided to build a platform for inventors, empowering IP and R&D teams with tailor-made artificial intelligence to operate more efficiently, thoroughly, and productively. Spanning the entire IP lifecycle, the Ankar platform assists IP professionals in their day-to-day tasks along the entire IP lifecycle — innovation to filing, protecting to licensing – with a suite of easy-to-use tools. We drive significant cost-reductions on legal fees every day for our customers by automating FTO for example and identifying infringements for defensive and offensive actions in minutes (licensing, counter-assertion, invalidity). A selection of the tools we deploy is the following:

1. Launchpad unblocks R&D and IP teams by helping them quickly identify inventions with a high potential of becoming patented, creating a virtuous cycle with inventors who can quickly receive feedback on the novelty of their ideas and generate invention disclosures in no time.
2. FTO helps IP teams ensure patented inventions and prototypes can be commercialized in a given geography without IP infringement risk. Ankar’s powerful AI models can do this in minutes, saving weeks of work and expensive searches.
3. Infringement detection provides a live, comprehensive view of where product fits in the broader IP space and detect potential infringements and provide a stepping-stone for claim charts.
4. Finally, a drafting Assistant accelerates in-house drafting process and frees up time sunk in manual tasks with a simple and interactive interface to generate patent sections, references figures automatically and validate the final draft.