Patsnap Expands Hiro’s AI Capabilities with Conversational Search Reshaping IP and R&D Intelligence Gathering

Patsnap, a leading global innovation intelligence company, today announced a significant expansion of Hiro for Analytics, adding conversational AI to its patent intelligence platform. The capability allows IP and R&D teams to ask questions in natural language and receive structured competitive insights, removing a longstanding technical barrier in patent research workflows.

Hiro, Patsnap’s proprietary AI layer for IP and R&D, is built on a proprietary innovation dataset of more than 208 million patents, 215 million non-patent literature records, and 1.6 billion legal data points across 174 jurisdictions. The capability draws on a purpose-built skills library trained on IP and R&D workflows and on Patsnap’s tools to interpret user intent and automatically executes the right analysis.

Traditional patent analysis workflows require users to learn complex platforms, Boolean search strings, classification schemas, and to spend hours filtering, analyzing, and synthesizing results. Hiro eliminates these steps. Users simply ask a question in plain language such as “How does our portfolio compare to Company X?” or “Who are our emerging competitors?” and receive structured, actionable answers.

Behind the interface, Hiro orchestrates three core capabilities: purpose-built skills trained on IP and R&D task execution; advanced AI reasoning augmented by Patsnap’s own domain-tuned models, to understand intent and sequence the right workflow; and Patsnap’s proprietary data, which has been systematically cleaned, normalized, and structured for more than a decade, to ensure accuracy and completeness. The result is analysis grounded in a unified view of the innovation landscape including standardized assignee data, corporate family trees, and reliable connected legal event records that reduce the risk of fragmented or incomplete findings.

“Generic AI gives you generic, incomplete answers. Hiro is different because the foundation is different. Patsnap has spent years building a proprietary innovation dataset that general-purpose models simply don’t have access to, systematically cleaned, normalized, and structured for the precision IP and R&D professionals require. When teams ask a question, the answer is grounded in data they can trust and act on,” said Haydn Evans, SVP of Strategy, Patsnap.

Hiro is designed to produce outputs that teams can act on immediately. Rather than raw search results, users receive structured answers, clear recommendations, and tailored analysis including white space discovery, portfolio comparisons, and strategic assessments.

Early results from a user hackathon, in which teams across IP, life sciences, and R&D functions stress-tested the capability with real-world use cases, validated the performance gains:

• 12-stage patent intelligence workflows covering FTO risk, invalidity strategy, multi-jurisdiction expiry analysis, and portfolio valuation were completed in a single session, compressing work that would traditionally take a team of analysts days or weeks.
• IP commercialization strategies, competitive landscape analyses, and FTO assessments were generated in minutes delivering outputs that would cost tens of thousands in outside counsel or consulting fees.
• Surface uncontested patent cliff opportunities by cross-referencing expiry timelines, competitor continuation activity, and generics pipeline white space, producing a prioritized shortlist of actionable targets, not a raw expiry calendar.

Unlike rigid, predefined analysis workflows, Hiro adapts in real time. Users can ask follow-up questions, redirect analysis mid-conversation, and request bespoke outputs from competitive deep dive assessments without leaving the interface or switching tools.

To watch a demo of Hiro in Analytics, click here or visit patsnap.com to learn more.

About Patsnap

Founded in Singapore in 2007, Patsnap is a leading global innovation intelligence company. Leveraging domain-specific AI agents and robust analytics tools, Patsnap empowers IP and R&D teams to unlock insights, accelerate discoveries and protect breakthroughs. Trusted by nearly 20,000 enterprises, law firms and research institutions in over 50 countries including one-third of the world’s largest R&D spenders, Patsnap transforms how organizations innovate and make critical decisions. Learn more at www.patsnap.com.

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