— Data Coverage
Comprehensive patent data coverage from trusted sources, for decisions that demand confidence.
IP.com delivers 190M+ patent and non-patent records to support defensible innovation and confident IP decision-making worldwide.
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Patent-Related Documents
Non-Patent Literature
Countries & Authorities
S&P Corporate Tree Companies
Litigation Records
— Global Patents
Patent data you can build a strategy on.
From the USPTO to emerging innovation markets, patent coverage from IP.com is built to support global IP strategies without compromise.
— Worldwide Coverage
IP.com provides access to 89.6M patents and 85.5M patent applications across 154 countries and authorities worldwide. This breadth ensures no significant jurisdiction is missing from your prior-art search or competitive analysis.
— Confident Data Consistency
Patent data from 154 jurisdictions is normalized across languages, formats, and classification systems, so teams can analyze innovation globally while maintaining confidence in data consistency.
— Non-Patent Literature
Prior-art discovery that goes beyond patents.
Technical disclosures, academic publications, and standards documents carry the same weight as patents in novelty analysis. Missing them is not an option.
Exclusive & Authoritative Technical Sources
IP.com includes curated non-patent literature from exclusive IEEE content, OnePetro, standards organizations, and other trusted technical publications. This ensures prior-art discovery extends beyond patents into high-impact technical disclosures.
Built for Technical Relevance
NPL sources are indexed and structured for technical meaning rather than keyword matching. This improves discovery of relevant art that may impact novelty and defensibility.
— IP.com Prior Art Database
A dedicated, publicly accessible prior art corpus.
One source of NPL is ours. The world’s leading publicly accessible prior art repository, operated by IP.com.
Dedicated Prior Art Corpus
IP.com maintains its own Prior Art Database, serving as a credible, publicly accessible repository for technical disclosures and defensive publications. This growing corpus enables organizations to formally place innovations into the public domain to support novelty strategy and defensibility.
Directly Searchable in InnovationQ
The IP.com Prior Art Database is fully searchable through InnovationQ, providing semantic search access to published disclosures within a dedicated prior art environment. Organizations can document, publish, and later retrieve disclosures within a consistent and traceable system.
— Update Cadence
Always current. Always reliable.
Patent and non-patent literature sources are continuously refreshed, with major collections updated as frequently as daily.
— Published Findings & Disclosures
Patent and non-patent data are refreshed on a regular cadence to reflect newly published filings and disclosures. This ensures analyses are based on current and relevant information.
— Sustained Innovation
Regular updates support sustained innovation and portfolio monitoring over time. Teams can rely on the platform as technologies and prior art continue to evolve.
— Ongoing Data Quality
Data pipelines are monitored and maintained to ensure completeness and consistency at enterprise scale. Coverage gaps are identified and addressed as part of our ongoing data quality program.
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