Novel or Not? PatEx-Gym: Agentic Prior-Art Search for Novelty Assessment in Patent Examination
PatEx-Gym is presented as a framework for developing and evaluating agents for patent examination. It includes PatEx-Bench with 1K examination tasks and retrieval corpora of over 1M patents and 52K scientific papers, a runtime supporting iterative search and Office Action generation, and PASS, an annotation-free method that synthesizes search trajectories into PatEx-SynData. A 4B-parameter PatEx-Agent trained via supervised fine-tuning on these trajectories is reported to be competitive with substantially larger general-purpose agents.
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PatEx-Gym is presented as a framework for developing and evaluating agents for patent examination. It includes PatEx-Bench with 1K examination tasks and retrieval corpora of over 1M patents and 52K scientific papers, a runtime supporting iterative search and Office Action generation, and PASS, an annotation-free method that synthesizes search trajectories into PatEx-SynData. A 4B-parameter PatEx-Agent trained via supervised fine-tuning on these trajectories is reported to be competitive with substantially larger general-purpose agents.
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- PatEx-Bench provides 1K realistic examination tasks plus retrieval corpora of over 1M patents and 52K scientific papers.
- PASS synthesizes search trajectories without annotation, using document visits as implicit relevance signals.
- Final decision accuracy alone does not fully reflect examination quality, according to the reported experiments.
- A 4B PatEx-Agent trained on PatEx-SynData achieves competitive performance against much larger general-purpose agents.
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Patent examination is a demanding, real-world testbed for agentic search and deep research. A benchmark that evaluates the full search-reasoning-assessment process, rather than static candidate pools, could help measure progress on prior-art discovery, which the source says remains difficult even for strong frontier models.
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