Case Study: Roche accelerates patent research and reduces costs with Dataiku

Roche cuts patent research time from months to days with Dataiku

Roche, a global biotech company, faced a significant challenge in its patent process. The labor-intensive task of legal research for European patents required attorneys to spend countless hours on manual, keyword-based searches through thousands of cases, leading to incomplete insights and slow response times. To modernize this workflow, Roche adopted Dataiku's Universal AI Platform to bring generative AI into its legal operations.

Using Dataiku, Roche developed an agentic AI interface called Themis PatAI, which unified multiple specialized GenAI projects into a single chat-based workspace. This solution streamlined case law and internal knowledge research. The results were substantial, with Dataiku helping Roche reduce the time to build new GenAI projects from months to days. The company achieved annual savings between $100,000 to $250,000 in attorney hours and saved an additional $375,000 to $475,000 by avoiding consultancy costs through in-house citizen development.

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