Search early. Assess quickly. Secure priority. Improve afterward. Gate IP takes an invention from structured disclosure to a Singapore provisional filing, with AI, professional patent data and expert oversight.
In the IP race, the delay before a supported filing is the real cost. AI changed the speed of invention; most IP workflows did not. The route from an inventor's idea to a filing still runs through forms, email and disconnected tools.
AI doesn't change the legal rules of priority. It changes the tempo around them.
A provisional application is an early, simpler first filing. It gives your invention a filing date, which becomes its priority date. You then have 12 months to decide where to file complete applications. Those later filings can claim the earlier date under the Paris Convention.
The rule most people miss: priority is valuable only for what the filing actually supports. An early provisional establishes a date for the subject matter adequately disclosed in it. Material added later does not automatically inherit that date.
So the goal is not to file weak material fast. It is to remove administrative delay while improving the disclosure and evidence available before filing. That is why Gate IP searches before it files.
Singapore lets an applicant secure a filing date quickly and complete the application within 12 months. It is English-language, fast and part of the Paris Convention network, which makes it an efficient place for a first priority filing, with international protection decided later with your counsel.
Check before you file abroad. Some countries require inventions made there to be filed at home first, or to obtain a foreign-filing licence or security clearance (for example the United States for US-made inventions). Gate IP flags this, but confirm your situation with your patent counsel.
Finding documents isn't the goal. Building enough evidence to reach a reliable conclusion is. A patentability search you can trust meets six checks, whoever or whatever runs it: an AI agent, a professional searcher or an attorney.
Search is a loop, not a button: Frame → Explore → Learn → Test → Verify → Map → Conclude.
If your last patentability search didn't include these, don't trust it.
The output of search should be a structured, traceable package, not a list of links. Below is an extract from a real Ambercite run on a sample invention.
Sample subject: Self-aligning coupling for a rotary valve actuator (patentability assessment)
| Document | Owner | F1 | F2 | F3 | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6079210A | Woodward | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | X |
| US6719103B1 | — | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | X |
| US2009/0293654 | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | X |
| US8118276B2 | Rotork | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | X |
| US5223822A | Stonel | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Y |
| US2008/0017816 | Arvin | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | Y |
White space: each feature is disclosed on its own somewhere. What was not found is seating confirmation drawn from the compliant, preloaded coupling itself: a closed-loop "valve is seated" signal with no separate sensor.
Conclusion: potentially at risk on F1, F2 and F3 individually. Confidence: medium. Next: read the full claims of US6079210A and US8118276B2, then narrow the claims to the integrated combination.
A €2,500 report becomes an automated evidence workflow. A patentability report at this depth is traditionally quoted at around €2,500. Here it is produced inside the workflow: high-quality evidence, ready before expensive human judgment is applied.
The output of search is not "AI says patentable". It is an evidence package that makes human legal, technical and business judgment faster and better informed. Patentability is only one input to a filing decision. Commercial importance, detectability, competitive position, timing, budget and alternatives such as secrecy all count. The decision belongs to a governance process, not a model.
Automate evidence preparation, not accountability.
10 provisional patent applications filed in Singapore, through one repeatable workflow operated end to end.
Real filings. Real search. One connected workflow.
| Run it | Install it | Use it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| For | One invention, end to end | Organisations bringing the workflow in-house | Teams using AI tools they already have |
| What you get | Disclosure → prior-art search → patentability analysis → provisional drafting → Singapore filing | Part or all of the workflow, connected to your systems | Prior-art search and the automatic patentability report, from compatible AI tools |
| Price | €490 per invention | €1,200 one-time | €200 for 1,000 credits |
| Start my provisional | Install Gate IP | Get 1,000 credits |
Official Singapore filing fee from S$170. Government fees are handled during the filing process. IPOS fee and provisional-application guidance checked on 23 September 2026.
It establishes a priority date. You have 12 months to file complete applications that claim it; after that the priority right is lost.
No. Priority covers only the subject matter adequately disclosed in the provisional. That is why disclosure quality and a search before filing matter.
No. It is a first filing that secures your date. Protection depends on the complete applications you file later and on their examination.
It isn't required, but it is strongly recommended. The search shows what is already known and how to describe the part that is not.
Often yes, but some countries restrict first filings abroad for inventions made there. Confirm with your counsel. Gate IP flags this during onboarding.
With your patent counsel, you decide where to pursue protection (for example through a PCT application or national filings) and claim the Singapore priority date.
No. Gate IP is the workflow layer that connects capture, search, assessment and filing. Your counsel keeps strategy and international prosecution.
Run one real invention through it: structured disclosure, citation-based evidence package and Singapore priority date, in 1–2 days.
Gate IP is not a law firm and this page is not legal advice. Filing requirements, fees and deadlines can change. Verify with IPOS and your patent counsel.