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What patent search? Does it still exist?


See https://ip.com/ I don't know if it has a public demo anymore.

The search engine used a neural network autoencoder for "more like this" queries and did a great job if you wrote a paragraph describing your invention and want to find related inventions, both in patent and non-patent literature. If it hasn't been made obsolete by Sentence BERT, however, it soon will be.




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