IP.com InnovationQ+ vs Patent77

IP.com InnovationQ+ is a web platform for searching prior art, examining technology landscapes, monitoring developments, and reporting findings. Its Semantic Gist engine searches by conceptual meaning and accepts natural-language queries. Coverage includes full-text IEEE material plus extensive patent and non-patent literature across 154 jurisdictions. HD-Analyze can process up to 30,000 documents at once. Monitoring alerts can arrive daily, weekly, or monthly, while competitor monitoring uses S&P Global to follow companies across their corporate footprint. Reports include Feature Landscape, Patent Vitality, Portfolio Intelligence, and custom charts. IP.com says customer submissions are encrypted at rest with AES-256 and communications use HTTPS and TLS 1.2 or higher. The company also says its model does not train on customer inputs. Product help articles and videos are available through a knowledge base. Pricing is on request, and a two-day free trial is listed.

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 It does not cover non-patent literature, unpublished applications in the 18-month publication window or collections outside its corpus, and it is not legal advice.