Ankar

What Ankar does

Ankar provides an AI operating system with a suite of tools tailored to innovation workflows, from idea generation and drafting through prosecution and protection. It helps patent professionals and R&D teams accelerate their work throughout the entire innovation lifecycle. The platform is designed to support both generating and protecting innovation, offering solutions for identifying novel elements, drafting patent applications, generating compliant figures, analyzing small molecules and sequences, and ensuring traceable citations. Ankar emphasizes data protection and security, with certifications like SOC 2 and ISO27001, and a strict no-data sharing and training policy.

Products

• Ankar AI operating systemA suite of AI-powered tools for innovation workflows, covering idea generation, drafting, prosecution, and protection of intellectual property.
• Patent DraftingHelps practitioners distill complex technical disclosures into defensible claim strategies, enabling faster drafting of stronger patent applications, identifying novel elements, generating drafts in preferred styles, and creating compliant figures.
• Small Molecules AnalysisAssists patent teams in expanding chemical groups, mapping compounds to claim scope, and verifying support against underlying disclosure, including generating Markush structures and evaluating compound coverage.
• Sequences AnalysisHelps patent teams analyze sequences and streamline ST.26 preparation by finding commonalities in uploaded sequences, automating sequence numbering, and accelerating ST.26 generation.

Key capabilities

• Idea generation
• Drafting
• Prosecution
• Protection
• Identify novel elements and invention
• Generate drafts in your preferred style
• Generate compliant figures
• Generate a Markush covering thousands of compounds
• Focus dependent claims towards potential leads
• Verify compound coverage
• Find commonalities in uploaded sequences
• Automated sequence numbering
• Accelerated ST.26 generation
• Trace AI-outputs to source documents
• Verifiable argument suggestions in Office Actions
• Track Changes
• Full certification (SOC 2, ISO27001)
• No training on your data
• End to end data encryption
• Fully segregated customer data in a multi-tenant environment
• Encryption in transit and at rest
• Strict role-based access controls
• Multi-factor authentication
• Comprehensive audit logs
• Flexible data hosting options (US or EU servers)
• Independent assessments of web and network defenses
• Full activity logging for customer-side monitoring
• Auditable security posture via trust center portal

Use cases

• Uncover whitespace, evolve ideas toward novelty, and assess patentability with certainty
• Draft invention disclosures and full patent applications with precision and structure
• Guide responses, amendments, and litigation-related strategy with evidence-backed reasoning
• Monitor products, detect infringement signals, and surface competitive patent insights
• Distill complex technical disclosures into defensible claim strategies
• Identify core inventive concepts and develop stronger claim strategies
• Capture firm's drafting preferences, claim styles, terminology, and best practices
• Transform sketches, disclosures, and technical descriptions into patent-ready figures
• Expand chemical groups, map compounds to claim scope, and verify support against underlying disclosure
• Generate defensible Markush claims from large compound datasets
• Leverage activity data to direct claim narrowing strategy
• Evaluate whether a Markush claim covers uploaded compound libraries
• Analyze sequence datasets to uncover conserved regions and key points of variation
• Keep sequence references synchronized between applications and sequence listings
• Streamline preparation of ST.26-compliant sequence listings
• Review prior art, analyze claim scope, or draft prosecution arguments with full source traceability
• Develop stronger and more defensible prosecution responses with arguments backed by cited disclosures
• Review AI-generated edits through familiar redlines

AI approach

Ankar provides an AI operating system with a suite of tools tailored to innovation workflows for patent and R&D professionals. Their AI assists with idea generation, drafting, prosecution, and protection of intellectual property. They emphasize building AI that can be trusted with high-stakes work, ensuring data protection and security, and not training models on client data. The AI helps distill complex technical disclosures, generate drafts in preferred styles, create compliant figures, analyze small molecules and sequences, and provide traceable citations for AI-generated outputs.

Tech named: generative AI, language models

Industries served

• Software Development
• Legal
• Automotive
• Cosmetics
• Biopharmaceutics

What it says sets it apart

• Partnership-led approach, working closely with patent professionals
• Engineered to meet the highest standards of data protection and security (SOC 2, ISO27001 certified before first customer)
• No training on customer data policy
• End-to-end data encryption
• Designed with security at its core, drawing on experience building military-grade software
• Strict no-data sharing policy without explicit authorization
• Enterprise-grade security infrastructure with full segregation of customer data
• Flexible data hosting options (US or EU)
• Transparent and auditable security posture
• Focus on enhancing human judgment and expertise rather than replacing it
• Configurable technology adapted to specific client needs
• Provides full source traceability, linking all AI-generated outputs directly to source documents

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.