IP-Pulse

Inspiration

In August 2025, the USPTO's Deputy Commissioner issued the Kim Memo, a directive that quietly made it easier to patent AI and software inventions. More claims are now eligible. More filings are coming.

Meanwhile, a single patent attorney costs $500–$1,000/hour just to monitor and assess IP risk. Big companies budget millions for it. Small teams and solo devs get blindsided.

We built IP-Pulse so any developer can get the same patent intelligence — pending filings scanned, risks assessed, prior art checked for around $100. No lawyers required.

Patent trolls and IP lawsuits constantly blindside engineering teams. By the time a company learns that a new filing threatens its product, it's already too late and expensive. We wanted to flip that: give engineers real-time patent awareness before it becomes a legal crisis.

What It Does

IP-Pulse monitors USPTO and Google Patents continuously, then sends you structured "Risk Reports" — tailored to your specific tech stack. It:

Searches for threatening new filings
Checks open-source prior art to invalidate them
Weighs the filer's litigation history

- Delivers the alert via browser chat, Slack, or a voice call

How We Built It

Component	Role
Claude	Orchestrates everything as the AI agent
WunderGraph Cosmo	Federates 5 GraphQL subgraphs (patents, prior art, litigation, verification, analysis) into one router — exposed to Claude as MCP tools
Kimi K2.6 on Akash ML	Handles bulk claim summarization
TinyFish	Does live web research and product-in-market verification
Ghost AI DB	Caches patent data
Redis	Manages sessions, rate limits, and telemetry streaming
Delivery	Web chat

Challenges We Ran Into

Federation Complexity: Federating 5 subgraphs cleanly with cross-subgraph entity extensions (e.g., Patent.summarize crossing the patents → analysis boundary)
Error Handling: Making the agent gracefully handle missing API keys — it reads structured error envelopes and pivots instead of crashing

- Context Density: Fitting a 500-page patent filing into a single usable summary without losing the critical claims

Accomplishments We're Proud Of

Federated Architecture: A fully working federated graph with 5 subgraphs behind a Cosmo Router, all exposed as live MCP tools to Claude
Agent Resilience: The agent actually reasons over tool failures — it doesn't hallucinate when a key is missing; it adapts
Multi-Surface Delivery: Three delivery surfaces (web, Slack, voice) from a single shared agent entry point