NLPatent

Introduction

NLPatent is an AI patent search and analytics platform that rebranded to Clerq in 2026, now operated by Legalicity Ltd. According to the company's own LinkedIn page, it was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with roughly 28 employees. The platform uses a proprietary patent-trained language model (branded internally as the "NLPatent model") across four capabilities: Agents (end-to-end prior art research generating claim-chart reports), Search (semantic, concept-based patent search beyond keyword matching), Intelligence (competitor activity and filing-trend visualizations with concept-based monitoring alerts), and an API/MCP server for embedding the model into other platforms. The company has previously disclosed a $3 million funding round from Draper Associates and Mighty Capital.

Legal Research

The platform's core Search and Intelligence features are patent-specific research tools — semantic prior-art and competitor-landscape search rather than general case law or statutory research.

Contract Analysis

Contract review is not part of the platform; it is built exclusively for patent search and analytics.

Document Drafting

The Agents feature generates claim-chart reports mapping patent elements to relevant prior art, which supports drafting-adjacent work, but the platform does not draft patent applications themselves the way a dedicated patent-drafting tool would.

Legal Translation

No legal translation feature is described on the company's site.

Predictive Analytics

The Intelligence module turns patent data into visualizations of competitor activity, filing trends, and technology landscapes, plus concept-based monitoring alerts — a genuine analytics/trend-detection capability rather than static search results.

Pricing

Clerq does not publish pricing on its site; cost is presumably quoted per engagement, consistent with other enterprise IP-research tools.

User Reviews and Ratings

This session could not reach G2 or Capterra to confirm a current rating (both returned access errors) — a rating could not be independently verified at this time.

Verdict

Clerq (formerly NLPatent) is a small, focused patent-search and analytics team with real venture backing and a genuinely AI-native search/intelligence offering, not a general legal-AI platform — a fit for patent teams specifically wanting semantic prior-art search and portfolio intelligence, though buyers should note the company just rebranded in 2026 and confirm current product naming and continuity directly.