Your First Search in 5 Minutes

Amplified finds relevant patents by understanding what you're looking for — not just matching keywords. Describe your invention or problem in plain language, and Amplified's AI ranks the global patent corpus by similarity.

Here's how to go from a blank search to a focused shortlist.

Step 1: Describe what you're looking for

Create a new project. In the Invention description, write a few sentences describing the invention, problem, or technology area you're searching for.

Click Update results. Amplified compares your description against the full text of all patents and ranks results by overall similarity.

Quick check: Skim the titles in the first page of results. If they're in the right technical field, your description is working. If you see unrelated results, add a sentence or two describing the specific technology more concretely — then search again.

Searching by claims? Use the Claims field to enter claim language separately. Claims-mode compares your claim text against patent claims specifically, which is ideal when you need to match on particular claimed elements.

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Step 2: Focus with keywords

Your results are sorted by similarity, but Amplified doesn't know which aspects matter most to you. Keywords let you zero in.

Add a keyword in the keyword panel on the left. Then check Relevant Text (at the top of results) to instantly see where that term appears in every result — without opening each document.

When you're ready to narrow down, switch the keyword from Highlight Only to Filter Results in the keyword panel, then click Update Results. Now only patents containing your keyword will appear.

Save relevant patents to find more like them. As you review, click the green checkmark to mark a patent as Relevant. Then click Update Results — Amplified learns from your selections and re-ranks to surface more patents like them.

Tip: Iteration beats brute force. Check the first page of results. If you find relevant patents, mark them and keep going. Once you stop finding new relevant results, click Update Results to learn from the ones you saved. If you haven't found any yet, try a different keyword or adjust your search description.

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Step 3: Ask Amplified to find the best match

By now you should have gone through a few iterations and built up a set of results. Now let AI do the heavy reading.

Select all results, open the Actions menu, and choose Ask Amplified. Type a specific yes/no question about the feature or limitation you care about.

For example: "Does this patent describe a drone with rotors that automatically fold before landing?"

Check Create a filter to turn the answers into a filterable column.

Amplified reads each document and answers with Yes, No, or Maybe, plus a brief explanation.

Now click the filter icon on the Ask Amplified column and select Yes — instantly surfacing only the patents that match your specific question.

→ More on this: Ask Amplified a question about your results · Filter results by Ask Amplified answers

That's it

Three steps: Search by Similarity → Focus with Keywords → Ask Amplified to Zero In. Now we have 7 results that exactly describe what we were looking for.

As you search, mark relevant results and update — Amplified learns from your selections and gets smarter with each iteration. The more you use it, the more you'll develop your own shortcuts. But this workflow gets you from a blank search to a shortlist every time.

Quick reference

What to try next

→ Read a patent in Amplified — open the full text and navigate between results

→ Generate AI summaries of patents — get structured summaries without reading full documents

→ Set up automated patent monitoring — schedule recurring searches for new publications

→ How Amplified is different from traditional patent search — understand the AI-first approach