AI-powered patent drafting and filing tool built by Erdal Bektas, a former patent attorney with 11 years of practice. Positioned as ‘Patents for the people’ — primarily inventor-facing rather than practitioner-facing, designed for inventors to bypass patent attorneys and file directly. Uses NLP and machine learning to guide users from search through drafting to filing. Currently supports PCT (international) applications. Very early stage (2-10 employees, 106 LinkedIn followers). Product activity appears stalled — no blog posts, product updates, or social media activity found from 2025-2026. All information is vendor-sourced — zero independent validation of any claims. No evidence of patent attorneys, law firms, or corporate legal departments using this tool.
Company Info
- Founded: 2022
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- HQ: London, United Kingdom (founder based in Ankara, Turkey)
- Sector: IP
- Founder: Erdal Bektas (patent attorney, Bektaş Patent, 2011-2022)
What We Haven’t Verified
No independent reviews on any platform. No pricing information publicly available. No customer case studies or testimonials. Reddit mentions from 2023 are self-promotional posts by the founder. Product development activity since 2023 is unclear. No information on AI model quality, patent drafting accuracy, or data handling practices. No published privacy or security policy found — patent applications contain highly sensitive IP and data handling practices are opaque.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, PatentPath is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems PatentPath addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Small firm creates the same lease, will, motion to dismiss, or discovery request from scratch every time — no forms library, no document automation, and setting up templates in most PM tools requires a consultant
Trademark clearance search costs $1,500-3,000 through an attorney and takes weeks — startups and small businesses either skip it (risking a cease-and-desist) or use free tools that miss common law marks and state registrations
IP law firm prosecution team handling 500+ active patent applications across USPTO, EPO, JPO, and CNIPA uses a different docketing system than the client's in-house team — deadlines get double-entered or missed in translation, office action responses are tracked in email threads, and neither side has real-time visibility into prosecution status
Where it fits in your workflow
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