Scientific Papers

Scientific papers are where new research is published first. Universities, research institutes and companies describe their results in journals, at conferences and as preprints, often years before a technology shows up in a product. That makes the literature one of the best places to find out what was known at a certain point in time, and who was working on it.

In Patalyze you can search this literature by keywords or by meaning, add the papers that matter for your question to a database and read each one with its abstract, authors and citations.

Our paper corpus#

For each paper, our corpus holds the abstract and the bibliographic data, e.g. the title, the authors and their institutions, the venue, the publication date and the citations. Be aware that the full text of a paper is not part of the corpus.

Adding papers#

Click the plus button after the page tabs of your database and choose Papers. That opens the same search dialog as for patents. Set a Text filter to contains to search by keywords, or to similar to to describe the topic in plain language or paste a claim. Further filters narrow the matches by e.g. authors, institutions, venue or citations.

If you look for prior art, add a Publication date filter set to before your patent's priority date. That leaves out the papers that came out too late.

You can also just ask a research agent to search the literature and add what it finds.

Reading a paper#

Open a paper and its page shows the title, where and when it was published and how often it was cited, followed by the abstract, the authors and the works it references. Once the paper is in your database, your own attributes and the patents charted against it show there as well.

Every paper also has a public page that anyone can open without an account, so you can simply send someone the link.

Charting a patent against a paper#

A paper is often the prior art that decides whether a patent claim is new. To test that, simply ask a research agent to chart your patent against the paper. The resulting mapping judges each element of a claim against the paper and cites the passage that discloses it.

As we don't hold the full paper, the agent looks for an openly available copy on the web and charts against that. Where there is none, it charts against the title and abstract alone and says so. Be aware that such a chart can miss what the body of the paper discloses. If you have a copy of your own, simply upload it and the agent uses that instead.

Papers in tables and dashboards#

A table of papers shows the title, the authors and the publication date by default, and you can add the rest of the data as columns to sort and filter on. A dashboard can count your papers, e.g. by publication year, venue or topic.

Papers over the API and MCP#

Your own code reaches the same corpus through the Data API, and AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT through our MCP servers.