Venture Capital firms trust IP.com® to provide actionable intelligence for informed investment decisions and to minimize risk. They use our services and analytics to understand competitive threats and opportunities in an evergreen technology landscape.
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
It’s True. Your ChatBot is a Terrible, No Good, Awful Patent Search Partner.
Is ChatGPT enough? For anything that touches your duty of candor, duty of competence, or freedom-to-operate risk, you need a specialist, not a generalist.
Defensive Publishing in 2026: Protecting Innovation Before Patents
For companies looking to adopt defensive publishing as a core strategy, IP.com offers a comprehensive platform for managing, publishing, and tracking prior art. The platform enables innovators to create high-quality disclosures, document technical innovation, and monitor global patent landscapes to ensure maximum protective impact.
Responsible AI for IP Teams: Why “Just Use ChatGPT” Derails Innovation Workflows
“Just use ChatGPT” is a great way to draft an email. It’s a poor way to make IP decisions. Innovation and IP need systems built for evidence, provenance, and control.
