An independent research practice for patent work in software and technology.

Anteclaim provides technical patent research to intellectual property professionals: law firms, patent attorneys and agents, and in-house IP teams. We are based in Switzerland and work with clients internationally.

The practice was set up around a simple observation. In software and computing patents, the hard part of research is rarely running searches. It is understanding what a claim actually requires, recognising the same mechanism when it is described in different words, and documenting the evidence so precisely that counsel can rely on it.

That is a technical skill as much as a search skill. Our work starts from the technology — architectures, protocols, data flows and implementation detail — and is backed by systematic search and careful documentation. We use modern software tooling to work efficiently, but what we deliver is finished research with every finding traceable to its source.

Anteclaim is a new practice. We don’t publish client names or testimonials, and we won’t invent them. Instead, we publish sample research so you can judge the quality of the work directly.