Search for prior art before you file a patent
The closest patents and papers, ranked, with the claims that overlap and how your idea differs.
- You start it: When you start it
- Odyssey deep research
What it does
The task
Read this description of an invention: invention. Search Google Patents and Google Scholar for patents, applications and papers that describe the same or a similar solution. Use at least 8 different search terms, and read the claims of the 15 closest patents. For each close match, give the number, the title, the date, the owner, the claims that overlap and the main difference from the invention. Rank the matches, the closest first. Say that this is not a legal opinion, and list the questions to ask a patent attorney.
- It works in Google Patents and Google Scholar, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- It runs once, when you start it.
- It uses Odyssey, the deep-research mode of the Pro and Team plans, and keeps a citation for each fact.
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| invention | Your invention in 3 to 10 sentences: the problem and how it works | A bike lock with a thin wire inside the shackle. When someone cuts the shackle, the wire breaks a circuit and the lock sends an alert to the owner's phone. |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
Prior art: bike lock with a cut-detection circuit
Search terms: 11. Patents read: 15. Papers read: 4
Closest matches:
1. US 10,734,512 B2 (2020), Lockwise Inc.: wire in the shackle with an alarm on the lock. Differs: no phone alert.
2. EP 3 412 908 A1 (2018), Vigilo GmbH: cut alert to a phone by Bluetooth. Differs: a vibration sensor detects the cut.
3. CN 112 345 670 A (2021), Fenghua Locks: conductive coating on the shackle. Differs: no wire.
Overlap: claims 1 and 4 of match 2 are close to your idea.
This is not a legal opinion.
Questions for an attorney: Is the wire circuit enough to be new? Should claims cover cable locks too?
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in the blank
Type invention. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it
Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.
From the terminal
cuiar exec --odyssey "Read this description of an invention: A bike lock with a thin wire inside the shackle. When someone cuts the shackle, the wire breaks a circuit and the lock sends an alert to the owner's phone.. Search Google Patents and Google Scholar for patents, applications and papers that describe the same or a similar solution. Use at least 8 different search terms, and read the claims of the 15 closest patents. For each close match, give the number, the title, the date, the owner, the claims that overlap and the main difference from the invention. Rank the matches, the closest first. Say that this is not a legal opinion, and list the questions to ask a patent attorney."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Search for prior art before you file a patent" template with invention = A bike lock with a thin wire inside the shackle. When someone cuts the shackle, the wire breaks a circuit and the lock sends an alert to the owner's phone..Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "run_task",
"arguments": {
"task": "Read this description of an invention: A bike lock with a thin wire inside the shackle. When someone cuts the shackle, the wire breaks a circuit and the lock sends an alert to the owner's phone.. Search Google Patents and Google Scholar for patents, applications and papers that describe the same or a similar solution. Use at least 8 different search terms, and read the claims of the 15 closest patents. For each close match, give the number, the title, the date, the owner, the claims that overlap and the main difference from the invention. Rank the matches, the closest first. Say that this is not a legal opinion, and list the questions to ask a patent attorney.",
"mode": "odyssey"
}
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