Amplified Blog

IP strategy, working with patent data, and artificial intelligence

Benchmarking AI search components and LLMs
LLMs are good at reasoning about patents. They're not good at finding them. We benchmarked the building blocks of AI search to understand what actually works — and what's been missing.
Samuel Davis, April 7, 2026

A Patent Practitioner's Guide to MCP
MCPs are going to be critical for powering AI in patent work. One of the biggest challenges in IP is that work is fragmented across too many tools and people. MCPs are a way to glue together that fragmented work and turn your existing LLMs into powerful productivity engines for patent work.
Samuel Davis, March 24, 2026

What's Missing in AI Patent Search
Prior art search has been breaking down for over a decade. AI should be the fix but why does it keep disappointing? The answer starts with how we measure it.
Samuel Davis, March 18, 2026

2nd Annual Tokyo Conference on AI and IP
Join us for a one-day conference on the potential for AI to augment innovation and IP management. This is a unique event that brings together a mix of perspectives from startups to enterprise to legal, from AI builders to AI users all with the aim of foster networking opportunities and broadening horizons.
April 3, 2024

Professional Intuition + AI = Better, Faster Patent Searches
Patents have long had a searchability problem. Between classification systems, prior art, and the tens of millions of patents on file, starting a comprehensive patent search is like assembling the first corner of an epic 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Can blending machine intelligence with professional intuition make patent search less complicated?
Samuel Davis, May 29, 2022

Customer Spotlight: Shobayashi International Patent Office
Takuya Saito from Shobayashi International Patent and Trademark Office shares how he uses Amplified to harvest inventions and brainstorm new patentable inventions in real-time with his clients.
Yasuyuki Oikawa, March 9, 2022

Customer Spotlight: Mizkan Holdings
Manabu Konishi from Mizkan Holdings shares how patent information has benefitted the team behind the hit new brand ZENB and his vision for the future of integrating patent intelligence into R&D.
Yasuyuki Oikawa, January 31, 2022

Customer Spotlight: 3D Printing Corporation
3D Printing Company CTO Yoichiro Koga shares how he is using the 3D printing revolution to build a new business model for supply chain manufacturing. He explains how he uses Amplified's speed to rapidly establish a strong patent portfolio in this new and exciting space.
Yasuyuki Oikawa, January 11, 2022

Amplified 2021 year in review
Happy new year! This is a quick recap of how we evolved Amplified during 2021 from better AI to exciting collaboration features.
Samuel Davis, December 31, 2021

Nikkei highlights Amplified's as pioneer in AI for intellectual property
Nikkei Shimbun, Japan's largest business newspaper, highlights Amplified in their Dec. 24 print and digital feature showcasing how artificial intelligence is transforming the intellectual property industry.
December 23, 2021

Amplified supports Japanese deep tech startups
On Tuesday, June 8th Amplified was proud to support Japan-based deep tech pioneers as a sponsor of the Hello Tomorrow Japan Challenge.
June 16, 2021

Introducing Amplified — Changing the patent system for good
Yesterday after three years of research and development in artificial intelligence, testing on over 1.5 million patent applications, and the contributions of nearly 600 beta users we launched the Amplified AI platform. This a paradigm shift in finding prior art that will transform patents.
Samuel Davis, June 22, 2020

Amplified unveils AI patent search benchmarks at EPOPIC 2019
At EPOPIC 2019 Amplified unveiled automated prior art results comparable to professional search results. The study covered nearly 1.5 million patent search reports and showed consistent performance across technology fields.
November 1, 2019

Amplified invited to speak at LESI 2019 Annual Conference
Amplified invited speak at LESI about corporate IP management.
July 24, 2019

Amplified AI CEO Sam Davis gives keynote speech at EPO Search Matters 2019
Sam Davis, CEO and Founder of Amplified AI, was invited by the European Patent Office to give the keynote speech at the 2019 Search Matters conference.
June 5, 2019

Amplified AI selected as top AI startup by Nikkei AI/SUM
Out of 90 competing AI startups, Amplified AI was selected as one of top five at NIKKEI’s AI/SUM conference.
June 5, 2019

Amplified CEO interview featured in Ledge.ai
Ledge.ai, a leader in Japanese AI media, sat down with our CEO Sam Davis to discuss how Amplified AI is applying the latest technology to transform innovation for society and build a fairer patent system.
April 1, 2019

Amplified AI invited to speak on impact of AI at EPO
Amplified AI CEO Sam Davis was invited by the European Patent Office to speak on the topic of AI's impact on patent work.
November 13, 2018