AcclaimIP vs Patent77

AcclaimIP helps corporate IP teams, law firms, and other IP professionals search patent information, analyze portfolios, and prepare reports for legal, strategic, and business decisions. It covers more than 175 million patent documents from 106 patenting jurisdictions, with an average of over 170,000 additions each week. Teams can use it for prior-art searches, technology landscape reviews, competitor monitoring, and contextual analysis of search results. Portfolio tools support assessment of patent strength, coverage, and competitive position for filing, prosecution, portfolio review, licensing, and enforcement. Visual outputs can be shared with stakeholders. AcclaimIP runs in a standard web browser, within a single browser tab, and is available as a standalone subscription or integrated with Anaqua platforms including AQX and PATTSY WAVE. Searcher, Practitioner, and Analyst access levels offer different capabilities; Practitioner adds USPTO file-wrapper access, while Analyst adds analytics and private-data tools. Custom fields require a paid add-on, and API use requires an additional license and customer programming work. Pricing is on request; licensing is annual, prepaid, and per seat.

Patent77 searches public patent records for prior art from a plain-English description of an invention, then returns cited references and a knockout-risk read. Its engine breaks the description into claim-style elements, expands synonyms, iterates searches, examines candidate documents and scores relevant references. Searches query the live Google Patents record, including US and major international patent collections. Paid patentability reports add an element-by-reference map, a novelty and obviousness narrative, limitations and PDF export. Lookups by publication number are never billed. Patent77 offers a web app, JSON API and hosted MCP server with tools for prior-art search, patent lookup and patentability assessment. Anonymous API requests need no account, but are limited to 4 requests per minute, 20 per day and three references per search. The Free plan is free and includes 3 AI searches per month and the top 5 references. Pro costs $49 a month; Scale costs $199 a month. Patent77 says descriptions are account-scoped and not used to train models, shown to others or sold, while descriptions are sent to an AI provider for query planning and reference reading. It does not cover non-patent literature, unpublished applications in the 18-month publication window or collections outside its corpus, and it is not legal advice.