File or acquire a patent in France, China or Brazil: your precise route, in a few questions.
No documentation to read. Answer honestly; each question narrows your case until you get your personalized procedure, costs, deadlines and official links. Six questions, real official fees, your exact route.
⚖️ Built and maintained by Gabriel Lormeau · Sciences Po Lyon · data checked against the official schedules of INPI, CNIPA and INPI BR.
Sector alerts, by email
📬 New AI, biotech, energy or agritech patents, in your inbox
Every week, the newly published and newly granted patents in your field across France, China and Brazil, with links to the official records and one line on why each matters. Pick your watch list:
📬 SAMPLE ISSUE: Patent Bridge AI & Software Watch, week of 5 October 2026. This is what subscribers receive weekly once the mailing list is live. Every item is verified against the official record before sending.
AI-assisted inventions are patentable in Europe, AI cannot be the inventorThe EPO Board of Appeal confirmed in February 2026 (T 0528/25) that AI helping develop an invention does not bar patent protection, as long as a natural person is the inventor. If your startup uses AI in R&D, your inventions remain patentable across all three jurisdictions; only the inventor designation rules matter.
Global AI patent grants passed the 100,000 milestone in July 2026Per IFI CLAIMS data, the pace of AI grant volume means freedom-to-operate clearance for AI products is now a moving target: a one-off search ages in months. Subscribers in AI: re-run your FTO check quarterly.
Brazil: AI examination guidelines still in draft, applications proceed under existing rulesINPI BR opened its AI-related examination guidelines to public consultation in 2025; as of September 2026 the draft is still the reference document. Your pending AI applications in Brazil will be examined under current inventive-step practice: draft claims around the technical effect.
China: inventors must be natural persons under the CNIPA AI guidelinesCNIPA's trial guidelines for AI-related inventions, like the EPO's, refuse AI systems as inventors. For filings naming research teams with AI assistance, document each human inventor's contribution now: it is becoming a standard examination question.
Where the raw data comes fromNew French applications publish weekly in the BOPI, Brazilian ones in the RPI (the official gazette, e.g. issue 2906 of 15 September 2026) and Chinese ones in the CNIPA gazette. Each weekly issue is compiled from these official sources, filtered to your sector, with direct links to every patent record.
💡 The value is the filtering: an AI startup cannot read three gazettes a week; Patent Bridge reads them and sends only your field. Unsubscribe anytime.