What’s new.
Every week’s updates, newest first — all the way back to the start.
We build Patent Bear in the open and ship most weeks. The throughline lately is simple: less setup, more answers — every release is about getting you from a patent number to verifiable, cited analysis faster. Below is the week-by-week story, newest first.
2026
Sep 19–22
Connector 2.5.4: search pages through the whole result set and returns up to 1,000 rows a call, European patents and figures come through the connector, and court rulings are structured.
Learn more →Sep 14–18
Patent Bear is in the Claude connector directory, Labs became Research, court decisions are searchable, and file-history documents read in seconds through the connector.
Learn more →Jul 13–17
The Prior Art analysis gets much sharper — it reasons about the hard parts of a claim, proves them with tables and figures, and works from post-IPR claims.
Learn more →Jul 6–10
Every analysis gets more reliable, literal-first search arrives, and there's a reviewer-friendly methodology view.
Learn more →Jun 29–Jul 3
Cited Passages lands — every charted element's evidence, underlined on the reference and its PDF.
Learn more →Jun 22–26
Biotech and chemistry get their own analyses, search starts following citations, and team billing stops fighting you.
Learn more →Jun 15–19
Prior Art learns to argue motivation-to-combine, and your highlights follow you into the PDF.
Learn more →Jun 8–12
Patent search opens up over an API and MCP, and chat moves into a real workspace.
Learn more →Jun 1–5
Bulk lookups, sharper dependent-claim handling, and the start of the blog.
Learn more →May 25–29
Prior Art results become real claim charts you can edit.
Learn more →May 18–22
File wrappers export to one PDF, and AI usage gets credits.
Learn more →May 11–15
AI Mode arrives and advanced search gets its own home.
Learn more →May 4–8
The reader gets a redesign and Prior Art reorganizes around invalidity grounds.
Learn more →Apr 27–May 1
Search results get a facelift and citations go down to the column and line.
Learn more →Apr 20–24
A design refresh, and Invalidity becomes Prior Art.
Learn more →Apr 13–17
Retrieval gets smarter and chat reads the whole patent.
Learn more →Apr 6–10
The first analysis ships — AI prior-art search with claim mapping.
Learn more →Mar 30–Apr 3
Search inside a patent, PTAB proceedings, and batch prosecution downloads.
Learn more →Mar 23–27
Claim charts grow up — Word export, sharing, and a rich-text editor.
Learn more →Mar 16–20
AI patent chat arrives, with citations you can actually check.
Learn more →Mar 9–13
Print layouts and the first team accounts.
Learn more →Mar 2–6
Google sign-in, bulk saved patents in folders, and a 4M+ patent sitemap.
Learn more →Feb 23–27
Figures you can manipulate, saved patents, and family data.
Learn more →Feb 19–20
Patent Bear is born — search, reading, and annotations.
Learn more →