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1se are connectors. Microsoft, Slack, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office are not commercial partners of Cblindspot, have not endorsed the platform, and have no commitment to it. They are systems the platform reaches, on the public and documented interfaces each of them publishes.","Microsoft Word. Drafting is where invention disclosures, office action responses and specifications are actually written. Word is reachable as a workflow surface, so a drafting step runs where the practitioner already works rather than in a separate window.","Microsoft Excel. Reports, prior-art tables and client deliverables leave the platform in the format the recipient expects, without a manual export and re-format at the end of every run.","Slack. Notifications and approvals reach the channel where the team already coordinates. A workflow that waits on a human decision can ask for it in Slack instead of in an inbox nobody times. This connector is in pilot: it is live and running, with rollout still limited.","The USPTO. United States filings, file wrappers, Art Unit data and office action history are reachable through the USPTO Open Data Portal API. Fetching the documents attached to an application, or searching applications by Art Unit, becomes a step in a workflow rather than a manual retrieval.","The EPO. European Register records, bibliographic data, legal events, family and global dossier, are reachable through EPO Open Patent Services. A cohort of applications can be checked in one fan-out step.","The point of connecting these five is not the individual integrations. It is that a prosecution workflow can now cross a drafting platform, a spreadsheet, a chat channel and two patent offices while every transition between them is measured, the time each step takes, what it costs, where errors appear, and how long a handoff sits waiting.","More than 2,000 IP and LegalTech products sit in the Cblindspot catalog. Each connector added makes the measured surface wider, and the blind spot between systems smaller."]},{slug:"open-ip-council",category:"Product",title:"Cblindspot joins the Open IP Council",summary:"Neutral measurement is only as good as the standards behind it. Cblindspot is taking part in the industry effort to define benchmarks for patent AI platforms.",date:"June 2026",publishedAt:"2026-06-26",body:["Getting involved in IP standardisation is part of the neutral DNA of Cblindspot. Connect, orchestrate and measure cannot be reliable without standards that align vision and comparison.","The Open IP Council held its first working session on 25 June 2026, convened by Roger Hahn, with prosecutors, in-house counsel, an engineer from a telecommunications standards background, vendors and a patent-portfolio valuation specialist around the table. The initiative is open to anyone working in or around patent practice.","Three issues framed that first session, and all three are measurement problems before they are technology problems. Liability, because no standard yet classifies an AI system in a way a professional liability carrier can price. Security, because when a guardrail fails nobody can currently prove it held. And return, because the drafting time an AI system saves is counted while the human review time needed to catch its errors is not.","A benchmark changes the position a practice argues from. It lets a firm show it followed a published standard rather than answer a charge of recklessness after the fact, which is what makes it matter to an insurer, to a client that wants real security, and to the partner who wants proof the technology delivers.","That is the same premise Cblindspot is built on, and the same one behind IPMSBench, the open IPMS benchmark being co-developed with PSS Solutions. Measurement is only neutral if the yardstick is public.","The council's meeting notes are published at openipcouncil.org."],source:{label:"Announcement on LinkedIn",url:f("7476416056799105024")}},{slug:"abigail-connector",category:"Partnership",title:"Cblindspot partners with ABIGAIL, adding a new connector to the Workflow Builder",summary:"ABIGAIL is now available as a connected node inside the Workflow Builder, bringing AI office action response drafting into a measured prosecution workflow.",date:"June 2026",publishedAt:"2026-06-10",body:["Cblindspot is announcing a partnership with ABIGAIL and a new connector on the platform.","ABIGAIL is now available as a connected node inside the Cblindspot Workflow Builder. IP teams can place it directly into their operational workflows, and the platform measures cost, time and handoff quality at every transition, the same way it does for every other system in the stack.","ABIGAIL, led by Roger Hahn, is an AI patent prosecution platform that drafts USPTO office action responses through an eleven-expert pipeline, with Glass Box transparency that verifies every output against the source documents. ABIGAIL is also the creator of PatentBench, the open-source benchmark for AI systems on patent prosecution tasks.","Cblindspot connects, measures and orchestrates the flow of information between the IP platforms clients already run, turning a set of disconnected products into operational workflows, without touching what each one does on its own. With ABIGAIL connected, office action drafting and the prosecution decisions around it now run inside one measured workflow.","The connector is live today.","Welcome to the platform, ABIGAIL."],source:{label:"Announcement on LinkedIn",url:f("7470397369709244418")}},{slug:"pioneerip-connector",category:"Partnership",title:"Cblindspot partners with PioneerIP, adding a new connector to the Workflow Builder",summary:"PioneerIP joins the connector catalog, bringing infringement search, portfolio analysis and claim optimisation into measured workflows.",date:"June 2026",publishedAt:"2026-06-09",body:["Cblindspot is announcing a partnership with PioneerIP and a new connector on the platform.","PioneerIP is now available as a connected node inside the Cblindspot Workflow Builder. IP teams can place it directly into their operational workflows, and the platform measures cost, time and handoff quality at every transition, the same way it does for every other system in the stack.","PioneerIP, led by Yulia Druzhnikova and Alex Levin, is an AI patent intelligence platform for infringement search, portfolio analysis and claim optimisation, and is one of the leading platforms for patent infringement detection according to independent analysis. It helps IP teams and law firms identify potential licensees and unauthorised use, improve pending patents, strengthen claim strategy and analyse portfolios more effectively, turning portfolios into business decisions.","Cblindspot connects, measures and orchestrates the flow of information between the IP platforms clients already run, turning a set of disconnected products into operational workflows, without touching what each one does on its own. With PioneerIP connected, infringement search, portfolio analysis, claim optimisation, pending patent improvement and licensing-focused portfolio decisions now run inside one measured workflow.","The connector is live.","Welcome to the platform, PioneerIP.","Do you have an IP or LegalTech solution you would like clients to use inside their workflows, but not the time or resources to build the connector yourself? We will build the integration and make your solution available across the ecosystem, so IP Ops and Legal Ops teams can assemble their workflows without friction, with no engineering effort on your side."],source:{label:"Announcement on LinkedIn",url:f("7470404077756231680")}},{slug:"fluidityiq-first-connector",category:"Partnership",title:"Cblindspot and FluidityIQ put AI-native patent research inside the IP workflow",summary:"FluidityIQ is the first vendor live on the connector catalog, and the first proof that several AI-native vendors can run side by side inside one workflow environment.",date:"May 2026",publishedAt:"2026-05-28",body:["FluidityIQ is the first vendor live on the Cblindspot connector catalog. Its semantic patent engine, already MCP-native and reachable from Claude, Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, now reaches IP teams inside the workflow itself, through the Cblindspot connector and Chrome extension.","29 May 2026, Cblindspot and FluidityIQ have signed a technology partnership that connects the FluidityIQ patent research engine into the Cblindspot workflow platform. Enterprise IP teams using Cblindspot can now run a FluidityIQ search from inside a workflow step, a prior art search, for example, without leaving the platform or switching between systems.","The FluidityIQ engine is already MCP-native and exposed to Claude, Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. This partnership adds Cblindspot as a new surface: the one built for IP work. The connector reaches FluidityIQ over MCP or over its API depending on the client environment, and a query that starts inside a Cblindspot workflow returns results in context.","Cblindspot also brings connected platforms into the work a team already does. A Chrome extension, paired with Office add-ins that share the same context, surfaces the right capability at the right step inside the browser, so a researcher reaches FluidityIQ without leaving their flow. The same layer measures each step, including time spent and completion, and feeds the Cblindspot operations dashboard.","What this means for the catalog","Cblindspot runs a vendor-neutral connector catalog. At each step of an IP workflow, the platform helps a team decide whether to buy, build or keep a given platform, then lets them plug the chosen one straight in. FluidityIQ is the first vendor in that catalog and anchors the first wave of integrations. The partnership is a working proof that several AI-native vendors can run side by side inside one workflow environment, with the IP team choosing what fits each step.","The agreement is not exclusive. Both companies remain free to work with other partners.","With thanks to Jeff Roy and the FluidityIQ team for going first."],source:{label:"Announcement on LinkedIn",url:f("7465898362349932544")}},{slug:"pss-solutions-ipmsbench",category:"Partnership",title:"PSS Solutions and Cblindspot announce a strategic partnership to establish the open benchmark standard for IP management system evaluation",summary:"The two companies are co-developing IPMSBench, the first open, vendor-neutral benchmark standard for IPMS evaluation. The methodology and first evaluation framework are expected in Q4 2026.",date:"May 2026",publishedAt:"2026-05-27",body:["PSS Solutions, the leading IP operations, digitalisation, change and transformation consultancy firm, and Cblindspot, the neutral interconnection and measurement layer between IP management systems and specialised IP and LegalTech platforms, have announced a strategic partnership and the co-development of IPMSBench, the first open, vendor-neutral benchmark standard designed to bring objectivity and transparency to IPMS evaluations. The methodology and first evaluation framework are expected in Q4 2026.","Today, IP departments selecting, replacing or renewing an IPMS face a decision that has strategic implications for value creation, insight generation and operational efficiency. Yet these expensive technology choices, sometimes above a million dollars of investment, still rely heavily on vendor demonstrations, peer recommendations and intuition, rather than being anchored in a clear, performance-based framework aligned to business outcomes.","PSS Solutions brings independent advisory expertise in IPMS selection and large-scale operational transformation to IP departments across multiple industries w

1orldwide. Cblindspot brings the measurement infrastructure to instrument real IP workflows and capture objective system performance. Together, they are building what the industry has been missing: IPMSBench, the first open, vendor-neutral benchmark standard that gives IP departments and their advisors the independent data they need to make an informed, future-proof decision that truly aligns with their organisation's goals, culture and operational reality. The partnership is focused specifically on IPMS evaluation; IPMSBench is a dedicated standard for that decision.","A new standard for IP technology decisions","Choosing the wrong IPMS can be one of the most consequential decisions an IP department makes. Organisations continue to invest millions in platforms that perform well in demonstrations but whose real-world performance remains difficult to assess before deployment.","Until now, there has been no shared, vendor-neutral way to independently measure and compare systems against real-world performance outcomes.","IPMSBench will establish a common measurement standard for the IP industry. For the first time, IP departments will be able to evaluate and compare IPMS platforms using transparent operational data rather than sales narratives alone. As an open standard, its methodology is published and versioned, so that any IP department, advisor or vendor can review how systems are assessed.","“The IPMS market is stratified, with providers ranging from well-known global platforms to niche specialists. PSS Solutions was founded to bring evidence-based, independent advisory into the sector. By partnering with Cblindspot to co-develop IPMSBench, we are taking that a step further, giving IP departments an objective standard to make informed, future-proof decisions.”, Nadine Stuttle, Founder and Managing Director, PSS Solutions","“IP tools do not talk to each other today. Processes break between systems, and organisations have limited visibility into what is actually working and what it is costing them. Cblindspot was built to change that. IPMSBench, co-developed with PSS Solutions, is the first step towards giving IP departments the transparency and objectivity they need for sustainable change and business growth.”, Sacha Lafaurie, CEO and cofounder, Cblindspot","Evaluating your IPMS stack? 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