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Welcome to IFI CLAIMS^® Patent Services

Quick introduction to KMX Patent Analytics solution

We produce the highest quality patent data available, and we are the leader in Patent Web Services and Patent Analytic Solutions

IFI CLAIMS Patent Services is devoted to maintaining the highest quality patent data available, and making that data available to as many users as possible through resellers and development partners.

The CLAIMS collection of patent databases provides the most reliable value-added US patent data and an extensive, integrated global patent collection available. IFI improves your patent search results with proprietary:

Company name standardization for assignees, plus Probable Assignees for applications
Expiration and legal status data
Chemical patent indexing (annotation) and title enhancements. Since 1955, IFI chemists have been interpreting and indexing (annotating) chemical structures, polymers, reactions, and concepts.

The CLAIMS DIRECT Web Service allows software developers the fastest and most effective way to incorporate patent data into their applications.

High quality, curated, Patent Data
Developer friendly APIs for search and document download
The most generous and flexible licensing terms available

The KMX Patent Analytics solution provides clustering, visualization and classification for large collections of patents. It provides analysts with unprecedented control over the classification process. Please see our brief KMX overview.

Please Contact Us to learn more about our data, our patent web service and KMX analytics solution.

News

BLOG: Facebook & Yahoo - Using KMX to Compare Patent Portfolios

Posted 26 April 2012, 7:10 PM

Facebook is planning an IPO next month. It will be one of the largest IPO’s in history.

In their February 1, 2012 S-1 filing, Facebook noted that their business faces a number of risks. Among these are risks associated with IP litigation. From the S-1:

“We are currently, and expect to be in the future, party to patent lawsuits and other intellectual property rights claims that are expensive and…

IFI CLAIMS Newsletter: Volume 1, April 2012

Posted 05 April 2012, 2:29 PM

IFI CLAIMS Webinars | Message from the CEO | IFI CLAIMS Blogs | IFI CLAIMS at PIUG

Thanks to everyone who joined our "KMX for Portfolio Analysis" webinars. For those who were not able to attend, we invite you to check our schedule and join us at one of our future events when we will continue to explore the patent analytics, text mining, visualization, and the potential of our CLAIMS DIRECT patent web services -- the developer-friendly patent data API.

BLOG: Top University US Patent Portfolios

Posted 20 March 2012, 6:43 PM

One of the most common uses of IFI CLAIMS Patent Intelligence and Technology (PITR) is to provide quick reports outlining patent portfolios. These snapshots provide a convenient summary of patent activity across a technology or a set of patent assignees. Often the first step in an analysis, PITR lets you drill into the numbers, view five- or ten-year trends, and easily collect a summary report that provides a high-level overview of major patent portfolios.

Here we look at the top university portfolios and their US granted patents received between 2007-2011.