From Complex Questions to Confident Decisions
Your AI assistant for fast, decision-ready patent insights that drive strategic business decisions.
LexisNexis Protégé™ in PatentSight+ is a next generation AI assistant that accelerates how IP and business professionals uncover opportunities, benchmark technologies, and make better decisions faster.
Built on the curated and enriched global PatentSight+ dataset and scientifically developed and industry-proven metrics, Protégé clarifies ambiguous input, applies proven IP logic, and delivers structured, visual and contextualized insights.
Whether you’re scouting acquisition targets, optimizing a patent portfolio, or assessing technology trends, Protégé in PatentSight+ helps you move from data to insights in moments.
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Not a chatbot. A reasoning agent.
Protégé is more than a conversational interface. It clarifies ambiguous input before generating output, applies the right IP logic, and delivers structured, visual and contextualized answers. By handling the complexity for you, it frees you to focus on action.
Built on data you can trust and trace.
Protégé is powered by curated and enriched global patent dataset and scientifically developed metrics that are trusted in litigation, investment decisions, and regulatory filings. Every insight Protégé delivers is transparent, traceable, and grounded in reliable data.
Designed for decisions, not just discovery.
Protégé frames every answer around strategic goals like acquisition targeting, licensing value, and portfolio risk. It removes manual setup and helps you reach confident, informed decisions faster.
It combines proven IP methodology with relevant business context.
Protégé applies scientifically developed and industry-validated patent value metrics, including the Patent Asset Index, used for over a decade in PatentSight+, and integrates business information to link IP strength with business impact.
Time to insight: accelerated.
Ask your question in plain language. Protégé handles the logic and multi-variable analysis to deliver strategic answers you can trust, helping you decide faster and with more confidence.
Rooted in strategic IP tasks, these use cases reflect where Protégé is evolving. Join the commercial preview to explore the experience and help shape what comes next.
Patent Search and Retrieval
Defining the right patent set can be challenging, especially with only a vague starting point. Protégé interprets natural language input, searches across patent content and metadata, and clearly explains how the results were generated. It delivers a relevant, structured set and visualizes findings in a static format for quick review and confident next steps.
Competitive Monitoring
Comparing IP activity across key competitors often requires digging into portfolio differences and spotting gaps. Protégé quickly surfaces relevant patents, organizes them by owner, and highlights distinctions in scope and strength to reveal strategic positioning.
Patent Summarization
Reviewing large patent sets can be time-consuming and inefficient. Protégé generates plain-language summaries that make it easier to scan for relevance and confirm whether the dataset aligns with the intended scope without having to read every document.
Portfolio Optimization
Making decisions about which patents to maintain, monetize, or divest requires clarity on value and alignment. Protégé analyzes any defined set and highlights non-core, redundant, or low-impact assets, supporting smarter portfolio decisions.
Trend Detection
Spotting how innovation is shifting over time is critical for identifying emerging players or market moves. Protégé visualizes development trends based on custom criteria and explains key shifts, providing early signals that inform strategic direction.
Landscape Creation
Building a reliable view of a technology domain often starts with vague input and takes significant effort. Protégé interprets that input to retrieve a well-structured patent set and organizes the results for confident exploration, segmentation, and communication.
Search Segmentation
Large patent result sets can be difficult to interpret without clear structure. Protégé segments results by dimensions like technology, geography, or ownership, surfacing patterns, concentrations, or whitespace to guide next steps.
M&A
Evaluating the IP of a potential acquisition involves assessing strategic fit and risk. Protégé reviews the scope and quality of the target portfolio, highlights overlaps and gaps, and flags issues like litigation exposure—helping stakeholders move toward a well-supported decision.
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Protégé in PatentSight+ enters commercial preview in October. By signing up, you’ll join a select list to receive early communications, feature news, and exclusive previews before general availability.
We can’t promise early access for everyone, but AI Insiders will be the first to stay informed about Protégé’s development, availability, and new capabilities.
Protégé in PatentSight+ is a new AI assistant augmenting the PatentSight+ experience that turns complex questions into fast, visual and contextualized insights. It is built on the trusted PatentSight+ dataset and the proprietary Patent Asset Index methodology, which is widely used to evaluate the quality of patent portfolios. You ask your question in plain language and Protégé delivers structured, visual and contextualized insights without the need to research contextual data, configure filters, or write complex queries.
Protégé enters commercial preview in October 2025. To be considered for early communications and potential early access, join the AI Insider Program. AI Insiders will be the first to hear about development updates and availability.
Protégé is built for IP analysts but accessible to a wide range of professionals including R&D, corporate strategy, M&A, and executive leadership. It is designed to remove technical barriers and can prove valuable to a wide range of professionals who don’t have extensive experience with patent tools.
Protégé is designed to help answer a wide range of strategic questions using natural language input.
Example questions include:
Protégé clarifies ambiguous input before generating output. It applies the Patent Asset Index methodology and trusted PatentSight+ data to deliver structured, visual and contextualized insights that support confident decision-making.
Protégé is more than a conversational interface. You ask your question in plain language, and it delivers reasoned, structured, visual and contextualized insights without requiring you to research contextual data, configure filters, or write complex queries. Unlike dashboards, which demand manual setup and still leave users responsible for gathering and interpreting supporting context, Protégé handles that complexity in the background—so you can focus on the insight, not the process.
Yes. Protégé follows the same enterprise-grade security protocols as the rest of the LexisNexis ecosystem. Your queries and usage data are never used to train external models. Protégé is compliant with ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA.
Protégé is built on the trusted curated dataset behind the PatentSight+ platform. This dataset is developed and maintained by LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions and is relied on by corporations, law firms, regulators, and financial analysts around the world. It includes:
