# Monitor a Competitor's New Patents - Apify

**Use case:** 

Schedule incremental monitoring of a competitor's assignee to catch only their newly filed patents. Perfect for competitive-intel alerts.

## Input

```json
{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "query": "",
  "assignees": [
    "Tesla Inc"
  ],
  "inventors": [],
  "patentIds": [],
  "countries": [
    "US",
    "EP"
  ],
  "statusFilter": "any",
  "dateFrom": "",
  "dateTo": "",
  "enrichmentDepth": "deep",
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "patentId": {
    "label": "Patent ID",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "assigneeCurrent": {
    "label": "Assignee",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "inventors": {
    "label": "Inventors",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "countryCode": {
    "label": "Country",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "publicationDate": {
    "label": "Published",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "filingDate": {
    "label": "Filed",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "legalStatus": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Patents Intelligence](https://apify.com/constructive_calm/google-patents-intelligence) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/constructive_calm/google-patents-intelligence) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.