Invention Village
AI FTO screening and patent drafts for R&D teams
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Details
- External ID
- 1272099
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Invention Village
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Productivity, Legal, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Invention Village is an AI patent tool for R&D teams. Screen a product for patent risk in your target markets before launch, then turn your real R&D into a complete first-draft patent application for a patent attorney to review. Not legal advice. Patent numbers come only from real search results, and missing values stay as marked placeholders instead of being invented.
Enrichment
- Niche
- autonomous ai agents and workflows
- Vertical
- Legal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- patent drafting and fto screening for r&d teams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The front-end and prompt engineering for drafting patent applications are easy to build, but effective Freedom to Operate (FTO) screening requires access to clean, indexed global patent databases (USPTO, EPO, WIPO) and high-recall semantic patent search.
What it would actually take: The product requires integration with patent aggregators (like Google Patents Public Datasets, Lens.org API, or PatSnap) and specialized vector embeddings trained on patent claim language. The core hard part is building a multi-stage claim-charting engine that extracts independent claims, segments them into limitation elements, and performs semantic similarity while avoiding catastrophic hallucinations in legal risk assessment.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 240 days after the earliest competitor.
- PatentDrawing · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Stilta: Cursor for Patent Practitioners · yc · 2026-02-09 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- IdeationIP · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- GitHub · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- DotStart · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- AI as a Freelance Co-Worker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- DynaTech Ops Ai · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Assembly Studio · ph · 2026-08-12 · 256 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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