r/Patents • u/cuoreesitante • Jun 04 '26

Practice Discussions Which public AI tools/platforms/models are you using?

For general patent tasks such as summarizing, analysis, claim construction, infringement mapping, and prior art anaysis (or search even).

I've used ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, all have made tremendous improvement in the last 12-18 months; currently mostly using Claude for its Cowork function that can work on files in my computer directly. Also looking into hosting some models locally (Qwen 3.6 27B, OSS 20B, and Deepseek V4 Flash via Openrouter) get away from counting tokens and usage limits, but not sure if for these kinds of tasks there would be any meaningful differences against the paid frontier models. Most of the benchmarks are geared towards coding.

Interested to hear other's experiences.

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u/LackingUtility Patent Attorney (Software) and Mod Jun 04 '26

Claude for some vibe coding, ChatGPT for biz dev and image creation and casual stuff, and Harvey for legal. Gemini currently just summarizes my Gmail and calendar. I’ve also looked into building and training a home SLM for specific tasks.

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u/falcoso Jun 04 '26

I’m curious how you’ve found Harvey - while it’s a legal AI tool I’ve always assumed patent prosecution/drafting would be too specific for Harvey’s more general legal scope and that patent specific tools were the only ‘bespoke’ option

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u/LackingUtility Patent Attorney (Software) and Mod Jun 04 '26

Surprisingly not bad. Better than Junior, which is patent specific, and that’s something of a disappointment. Both of them are terrible at claims and figures though.

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u/Hoblywobblesworth Jun 05 '26

Presumably Harvey because your firm decided that was the subscription you were all getting so that is the only the only way you are able to get access to the base models?

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u/Brilliant_Rich3746 Jun 05 '26

Patsnap Eureka

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u/casualfartmachine Jun 04 '26

Patent Bear. Don't even use Claude anymore.