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Leverage Your IP Portfolio

by implementing a comprehensive IP strategy

Accelerate Idea Generation

with the intelligent problem-solving you need!

Maximize the ROI Potential

of your intellectual property strategy

Supercharge New Ideation

with the powerful industry-unique workflows your team needs!

Drive Strong IP Decisions

with the accelerated ideation your team needs!

IP.com® combines ideation, problem-solving, intellectual property & patent intelligence software with comprehensive services, which accelerates clients’ innovation workflows. Our solutions deliver competitive insights and powerful data analytics, enabling inventors, engineers, R&D teams, and IP professionals to make informed IP decisions. We’re dedicated to making our customers’ innovation processes easier, faster, and better. We power the innovation that powers the world!

Expert FTO Reviews —Secure Your Freedom to Operate

Why pay tens of thousands for a law firm’s Freedom to Operate opinion when you can get the same expert-level insight for a fraction of the cost? Our seasoned IP professionals leverage advanced AI-powered search to uncover risks, ensure compliance, and safeguard your product launches.

Stay competitive, avoid litigation, and protect your bottom line — all without breaking the bank.

Patentability Studies — Aim Your Innovation Where It Counts

Before you invest time and budget, know if your invention is truly novel. Our expert IP professionals scour global patent databases and non-patent literature, distilling domain-relevant findings into a clear, actionable report. You’ll know exactly where your innovation stands — and how to position it for protection and success.

Turn bright ideas into protectable breakthroughs.

Defensive Publication Editing — Make Every Word Defensible

Clear, complete, and precise technical disclosures are critical to effective defensive publishing. Our expert IP professionals edit for accuracy, discoverability, and legal robustness — so when you publish, your disclosure stands as strong prior art in the public domain. Protect your Freedom to Operate, reduce the burden on your team, and boost your innovation ROI.

Transform your disclosure into a lasting line of defense.

From Movie Night Mess to Market Success

What do spilled sodas, popcorn, and a mortgage banker have in common? For inventor Rick Kellow, they sparked an idea that grew into a multi-product business found in hundreds of Walmart stores. But when his next big idea faced a costly patent roadblock, he found a faster, smarter, more affordable way forward — with IP.com.

See how Rick turned an everyday annoyance into a booming business — and how expert FTO analysis kept his next innovation on track.

Industries & Use Cases

Innovation is critical to organizational survival. It is complex and requires precious time, money, and resources. Entities across all industries must be agile to quickly and cost-effectively move innovations and intellectual property forward. IP.com is an innovation acceleration company that provides end-to-end AI-driven workflow solutions and professional services powered by our Semantic Gist® engine. Our offerings provide a single, trusted source of support for anyone looking to conceive, validate, evaluate, protect, target, and monetize the highest-potential ideas, innovation, and IP in the fastest and most cost-effective way across many different industries and users.

I can’t imagine being able to manage a large patent portfolio and to get the results we have enjoyed without features like semantic search and HD-Analyze in InnovationQ+. It’s like having a dedicated AI assistant.

Joe Manico
Research Scientist, Kodak Alaris

The IP Suite has been invaluable in refining our technology narratives and accelerating service delivery. It has also allowed us to serve a broader client base.

Elle Gahl
Founder, Shadow Ridge Analytics

InnovationQ+ is a superior search engine that’s enabled me to do things I just couldn’t manage with prior search engines. It’s like having a conversation with another human being who can work a lot faster than I can.

Steve Bittenson
IP Consultant & Founder, Concepdance, LLC

The Defensive Publishing solutions and Editing Services from IP.com have been instrumental in helping us stay ahead of the competition and protecting our valuable IP assets.

Brandon Hsieh
Senior IP Portfolio Manager, NetApp

Brands that Trust IP.com

Welcome to IP.com®, a pioneering force in transforming intellectual property management. Our company’s origins date back to 1994 with the creation of our natural language processing engine, Semantic Gist™. Anchoring our mission was a bold aspiration: streamlining research and development evaluation to empower organizations through rapid intellectual property assessment and expedited innovation processes

IP.COM Overview

We Power the Innovation that Powers the World’s Intellectual Property

Innovation is critical to organizational survival. It is complex, and requires precious time, money and resources. Entities must be agile in order to quickly and cost-effectively move innovations forward.

The IP.com Innovation Power Suite offers end-to-end workflow solutions, complemented by professional services, which enables infinite innovation potential powered by our Semantic Gist® engine. Our offerings provide a single, trusted source of support for anyone looking to conceive, validate, evaluate, protect, target and monetize the highest-potential ideas, innovation and intellectual property in the fastest and most cost-effective way. We give entities everything they need to save time, lower costs and make every decision with the highest confidence.

IP Suite: Products

IQ Ideas+™ is unique in the market, filling a gap that traditional problem-solving tools and methodologies fail to address. It helps innovators and engineers generate and refine ideas with the greatest potential at the source of the process—before precious time and resources are wasted—so you can accelerate ROI.

InnovationQ+ is an innovation and IP decision support workflow solution packed with powerful data analytics and competitive insights that enable informed, rapid decisions—reducing costs, maximizing ROI, and accelerating innovation. Our patent search software and analytics platform improves ROI across the entire innovation lifecycle, from ideation to monetization.

Prior Art Database, the first and largest online prior art disclosure service, provides technical disclosures to patent offices around the world. Safeguard your Freedom to Operate by publishing technical disclosures to the Prior Art Database, making them available instantly.

IP Suite: Analytics

Patent Vitality Report

The Patent Vitality Report (PVR) gives patent owners, buyers, and sellers an objective analysis of the assets in a patent portfolio. It provides valuable patent analysis in five understandable scores: overall strength, litigation risk, monetization potential, new technology value, and patent quality.

Technology VITALITY REPORT

Our Technology Vitality Report uses a proprietary AI engine to power comprehensive IP evaluation, allowing you to rank ideas in a fast, efficient, and transparent way. Get fast and thorough decisions with our Technology Vitality Report (TVR) and improve your review process with less effort.

 

Portfolio Intelligence Report

Assess your patent portfolio value and stay ahead of competitors while optimizing your IP strategy with customized innovation intelligence delivered by our Portfolio Intelligence Report. Our Portfolio Intelligence Report (PIR) can help you quickly rank and understand portfolios of patented and patent-pending technologies.

IP Suite: Services

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ACCELERATE RESULTS WITH A TRUSTED INNOVATION PARTNER:

Bring your innovations to market faster! Position your research and development team to increase internal efficiency, reduce outsourcing costs, and improve patentability with solutions from IP.com. Rapid innovation requires rapid intelligence. Our world-class Professional Services team speeds up your innovation workflows, completing essential research, analytics, editing, and reporting tasks using industry-leading expertise and our AI-driven solutions.

Entrust

Our team of highly-qualified, US-based, and ITAR-compliant subject matter experts provide the industry depth and expertise you need with certainty and confidentiality.

Envision

We help you understand threats and opportunities to prioritize R&D, spend better, and achieve your innovation potential.

Empower

We surface and organize the most relevant, actionable data to propel your business to more substantial IP and better bottom-line results.

Patent & IP News
America’s AI Action Plan: What It Means for “Woke AI” and the Future of Innovation

America’s AI Action Plan: What It Means for “Woke AI” and the Future of Innovation

The White House has rolled out its AI Action Plan—a sweeping, 90+ point blueprint designed to accelerate U.S. AI development, cut through infrastructure red tape, and sharpen America’s competitive edge on the world stage. Tucked between the big-ticket items like R&D funding and deregulation is one provision grabbing most of the headlines: a new executive order requiring AI systems used by federal agencies to be ideologically neutral.

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The Patent System’s Ticking Time Bomb

The Patent System’s Ticking Time Bomb

For over two centuries, the U.S. patent system has been an engine of innovation because it was accessible, predictable, and apolitical. What started as a revenue generating idea became a spectacular policy failure of a scheme—proof that disrupting a stable patent system without understanding the consequences can do lasting damage.

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