RPX Announces Collaboration with Clerq to Enhance Invalidity Search Workflows for Empower Users

RPX Corporation today announced a collaboration with Clerq (formerly NLPatent), a provider of AI-powered prior art research and intelligence technology, to cross-link Clerq's platform with RPX Empower. The initial phase of the collaboration will make it easier for users to move between the two tools when conducting invalidity research, reducing friction in a workflow that currently requires switching between separate environments. Deeper platform integration is planned as the relationship develops.

Clerq joins RPX's roster of vetted technology partners available through Empower. RPX evaluates potential partners against rigorous criteria for data quality and relevance to IP professionals' day-to-day workflows. The collaboration expands the prior art and invalidity search options available to Empower users, complementing existing partner capabilities within the platform.

The Clerq collaboration is part of RPX's ongoing effort to build Empower into an extensible platform that connects best-in-class IP tools within a cohesive intelligence environment. More information about RPX Empower is available at rpxcorp.com.

About RPX
Founded in 2008, RPX provides innovative solutions that efficiently resolve patent related disputes for the benefit of its members, which include leading global companies across technology, financial services, automotive, and other sectors. RPX's Empower platform leverages the company's extensive data assets to help subscribing operating companies, law firms, and patent consultancies manage patent portfolios, patent licensing, and litigation strategy, as well as stay on top of market trends. RPX's holistic suite of patent risk solutions is the key to managing increasingly frequent and disruptive patent disputes in a technologically enabled economy.

About Clerq
Clerq (formerly NLPatent) is the agentic AI clerk for patent professionals. Founded on a proprietary large language model developed years before the rise of generalist AI tools, Clerq is purpose-built to understand and interpret patent language and non-patent literature, powering search, landscaping, monitoring, and analytics from a single underlying intelligence layer. With agentic workflows, Clerq now executes full patent research tasks end-to-end, starting with patentability and expanding into invalidity and freedom-to-operate, with a professional in the loop at every step.

Clerq is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant, runs its proprietary models in a private cloud environment, and does not train on client data. The platform is trusted by corporate IP teams and law firms handling significant patent volumes across nearly every technology category. Agentic AI is limited by what it knows, and Clerq's workflows are built on a five-year foundation in patent-specific retrieval. That same intelligence layer powers research inside partner platforms. To learn more, visit clerq-ip.com.