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Make strategic decisions about intellectual property
In today’s fast-paced world, seeing where your competitors are investing, mapping technology trends, and gaining access to patent and litigation data allows you to make strategic business decisions about innovations.
Intangible assets account for more than 80% of a company’s value. Protect and maximize your investment by staying ahead of the competition. IP.com’s business intelligence solutions identify technology trends and areas of heavy investment.
Our Corporate Tree within InnovationQ+™, built with S&P Global Market Intelligence data, matches patent and technical data to public and private company patent portfolios, their subsidiaries, and acquisitions. Combine this business intelligence with our semantic map to understand technology trends, industry direction, and how best to manage your company’s portfolio.
Tailored Solutions
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.
Patent Landscape Services
Our Patent Landscape services provide executives, technologists, and investors with actionable intelligence regarding the extent to which competitors protect innovations in key technology areas.
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.
Freedom to Operate Services
Our Freedom to Operate (FTO) patent search service helps identify potential patent barriers to commercializing your products or technologies. An FTO search aims to identify in-force patents or published patent applications with claims that cover the technology, process, or product you are targeting.
Patent & IP News
How DeepSeek Could Revolutionize Patent Discovery — But at What Cost?
Among the emerging AI-driven platforms, DeepSeek is gaining attention for its ability to streamline complex search processes and improve competitive intelligence. While DeepSeek boasts powerful AI-driven search capabilities, its limitations are impossible to ignore. For organizations relying on legally defensible insights and airtight competitive intelligence, DeepSeek’s gaps could undermine decision-making and expose businesses to unnecessary legal and financial vulnerabilities. Before making the leap, it’s worth asking — is the convenience of an open-source AI worth the cost of incomplete, unreliable data and potential security risks?
Upcoming Webinar: Measuring Patent Quality with AI-Powered Insights
AI-powered Patent Insight Indexes provide actionable metrics for evaluating patent portfolios, helping IP professionals assess patent quality, manage litigation risk, and optimize investments. Join our webinar on March 27, 2025 to explore how AI-driven insights enhance decision-making in licensing, R&D alignment, and portfolio management.
Breaking Barriers: How Antitrust Shapes the Future of Innovation
From tech giants to pharmaceutical empires, the role of competition in driving innovation has never been more critical. But what happens when a few powerful players dominate an industry? Does regulation spark creativity, or does it hold businesses back? The debate over antitrust enforcement is intensifying. While some argue that breaking up monopolies unlocks new opportunities, others warn that overregulation creates uncertainty that stifles investment. So, where’s the balance? And how can companies navigate these shifting landscapes to stay ahead?