Joint Research Initiative · Est. 2024

Intelligence for IP.

Advancing language models, agentic systems, and information retrieval for the creation, management, and examination of intellectual property.

01 / RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How can AI support creation, patentability, examination, and enforcement across the IP lifecycle?

02 / REPRESENTATIVE WORK

AutoPatent · PatRe · FlowPIE · IPBench

03 / OPEN RESOURCES

Benchmarks, datasets, code, and research systems →

SIAT-NLP×DUT-IR

SHENZHEN · DALIAN · CHINA

01 / Mission

From foundational research
to professional impact.

IP Intelligence is a joint research initiative connecting SIAT-NLP at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and DUT-IR at Dalian University of Technology.

01

Foundation Models

Reasoning, generation, and domain adaptation for complex IP knowledge.

02

Agentic Workflows

Reliable systems that support real-world patent and IP procedures.

03

Information Retrieval

Evidence-grounded search and discovery across technical documents.

02 / News

Latest from the lab.

All news →
PUBLICATION

Two papers accepted to ACL 2026

IPBench and Beyond Quantity were accepted to ACL 2026 Findings.

View publications →
RELEASE

PatRe joins the IPIntelligenceArena

A benchmark for Office Action and rebuttal generation in patent examination.

RESEARCH

IPBench released

10,374 instances and 20 tasks for evaluating IP knowledge and practice.

SYSTEM

AutoPatent introduced

A multi-agent framework for automatic patent generation.