Patent landscape analysis is an excellent tool used for technology categorization, competitive intelligence and due diligence. the internet is overflowing with information getting updated every day with new technology data in the form of patent documents filed and granted in various countries. it would be of excellent help for a researcher, if someone downloads and reads all the documents displaced on the google pages and perform a text mining analysis and convert the data to information, and information to knowledge, and knowledge to wisdom. ipat (intelligent patent analysis tool) is one such freely available software tool which not only retrieve the online publicly available information but also read the .pdf file and coverts the information into quantitative and qualitative charts for an easy understanding and analysis. ipat is a patent data retrieval and analysis tool it is a freely accessible user friendly, independent tool compatible for windows based systems or work stations. it consist of two main parts 1. ipat compiler: extract specific bibliographic patent information in a predetermined order into an excel sheet 2. ipat visualizer: generate various patent maps from the selected patent portfolio analysis. the results are retrieved form google patents into an excel sheet in .cvs format the software is available online http://sourceforge.net/projects/nipat/ website: http://niper.gov.in/pi_dev_tools/ipat_publish/home.html user manual: http://www.niper.gov.in/pi_dev_tools/ipat_publish/ipat_manual.pdf ipat video: http://www.niper.gov.in/pi_dev_tools/ipat_publish/home.html user reviews: abhi4676 5/5 stars, comment: a good piece of work. thank you, ipat developers, pi dept., niper. its much worthy and needed tool for searching i.p profiling for pharmaceutical drug discovery research and novel formulation development projects.