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Clarivate connects its patent and IP litigation data to Claude
Clarivate, which sells patent, trademark and litigation research data, said Nov. 11 that its Derwent patent data and Darts-ip litigation data can now be connected to Anthropic's Claude through its IPOne service, joining CompuMark trademark data that was already available there. The connectors are listed on Anthropic's marketplace and use the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI tools pull from outside data sources, so users can ask questions in plain English and get answers drawn from Clarivate's data. Clarivate describes Darts-ip as global litigation coverage for comparing disputes and outcomes across jurisdictions. The announcement gives no pricing. If your firm does patent or trademark work and already uses Claude, ask Clarivate what access costs, and still check any result against the official patent or trademark record before you rely on it.
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, which it calls its strongest model
Google made Gemini 4 Carbon available Nov. 10 and calls it its strongest model, built for long, multi-step work. Paying developers and businesses can use it through Google AI Studio and Gemini for business at the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through Nov. 30, 2026, then $4 and $20 (a token is a small chunk of text the model reads or writes). It is also rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. Google says Carbon is better at working through large sets of dense documents, including for legal and finance work, and turning them into spreadsheets, presentations and reports. Google also says Argon remains the better pick for most everyday knowledge work, because Carbon uses more tokens to think things through. If a legal AI product you use runs on Gemini, ask whether it is switching models and whether that changes your price or your results.