MARKET RESEARCH
Weekly Competitor Patent Filing Watch
Every Monday, scrapes USPTO and Google Patents for new filings and grants from a tracked competitor list, then logs each one to Airtable with assignee, classification…
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerWeekly Monday schedule
- ActionCrawl USPTO + Google Patents per competitorFirecrawl
- LogicDedupe against existing patent records
- ActionSummarize abstract + tag classificationOpenAI
- OutputWrite new filings to Airtable ledgerAirtable
What it does
Keeps a running, structured ledger of every new patent application and grant tied to the competitors you care about. Each filing lands in Airtable as a row you can sort, filter, and reference later — no more manual USPTO searches.
When to use it
Run this when you need a low-effort, always-current record of competitor IP activity feeding a larger innovation-tracking process. It is the data-collection backbone the brief and alert workflows build on.
How it works
- 1A weekly schedule fires Monday morning.
- 2Firecrawl crawls USPTO and Google Patents result pages for each assignee name in your competitor list.
- 3A logic step deduplicates against patents already stored (matching on publication number) so you only capture net-new filings.
- 4An OpenAI step reads each new patent abstract and writes a one-sentence plain-English summary plus a CPC technology tag.
- 5The workflow writes each enriched filing to Airtable: assignee, title, filing date, classification, summary, and source link.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect FirecrawlCrawl, scrape, structured extract.
- 2Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
- 3Connect AirtableBases, tables, views, automations.
- 4Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 5Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 6Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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