Patently vs XLSCOUT

Patently is a web platform with patent tools and AI assistance for searching, drafting, prosecution, oppositions, licensing, and litigation. Search ranks patents by relevance and includes semantic search that feeds findings into other patent workflows without exports. Create uses the Onardo assistant to draft claims, figures, and descriptions from invention disclosures. Mine maps claims against standards and technical documents and can produce downloadable reports. Rate supports shared ratings and configurable projects for FTO, landscape, novelty, invalidity, and competitor work. License provides standard-essential patent data and analytics across 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, and beyond. Teams can set custom project workflows, export to Word and Excel, and apply project-level permissions with ethical walls and confidentiality barriers. The Free plan is free for one user and individual use, including filtered asset search, Onardo chat, patent-family browsing, and asset-link sharing. Law Firm+ and Business+ use custom pricing; Enterprise pricing is according to requirements. The platform also lists IPMS integration on Law Firm+.

XLSCOUT is an AI platform for innovation and intellectual property, with tools for idea validation, ideation, patent drafting and patent monetization. Novelty Checker LLM analyzes patent prior art and non-patent literature, returning ranked, contextually mapped results and structured novelty reports. Ideacue supports brainstorming, idea-strength analysis, feature mapping and prior-art comparison. Drafting LLM generates patent claims, abstracts, drawings, backgrounds and descriptions, with US and Japanese formats. ClaimChart LLM creates AI-assisted claim charts for patent and potential-infringement analysis; Deep Research currently handles one patent at a time. Other listed modules include Invalidator LLM, PatDigger LLM and TechScaper LLM. XLSCOUT describes its platform as covering more than 170 million patents from over 100 countries, over 220 million non-patent literature items and 106+ jurisdictions. It is available via web and API. The maker says users can delete data, customer data is not used for model training, and storage is available on US- or EU-based servers. XLSCOUT states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant. Pricing is organization-specific and available by request; a free trial is offered with no stated duration.