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IFI Interview: Erre Quadro
Erre Quadro brings engineering design methodology to the study of patents.
IFI Insights: Anti-Obesity Drugs
The growing success of GLP-1 agonists in treating obesity has ignited a gold rush among pharmaceuticals and biotechs. Such medical breakthroughs are generally…
IFI Insights: Challenging Nvidia: Examining the Patents of an Emerging AI Chip Company
Developing tools for generative AI demands enormous processing capacity. Nvidia’s chips sit at the top of that tech stack, and its stock price is rich. But…
The IFI Interview: RightHub
RightHub has built a platform that helps creators learn, connect, and ultimately bring their ideas to light.
IFI CLAIMS Technology Spotlight: Cybersecurity
The digital world is becoming more dangerous. Here are the companies innovating in the safekeeping of networks.
The IFI Interview: Aubrey Scroggs, Director of Product Management at Quartz IP
Quartz IP helps top Am Law firms streamline and organize the creation & lifecycle of intellectual property.
The IFI Interview: Lewis Lee, Founder and CEO of Moat Metrics
Valuing IP is an industry holy grail. Creating an exchange to buy and sell it has long been considered the solution. Moat Metrics has found a different path. And it…
IFI CLAIMS Technology Spotlight: Semiconductors
Chips make the computing world go round. As the world becomes ever more dependent on digitization, the push to control the chip business is intensifying.
The IFI Deal: Walmart Goes Shopping For Vizio
Walmart sought to purchase smart television maker Vizio for $2.3 billion earlier this year. What they may not have noticed was the bonus buy: a starter pack of data…
IFI CLAIMS Technology Spotlight: AI and the Real Estate Sector
Our monthly look at leading companies in top technologies—and one hot patent.
IFI Insights: Opening the Patent Picture on Generative AI
2023 was a year-long bash for artificial intelligence. The guest of honor at the party? Generative AI, in the form of ChatGPT.
The IFI Deal: GE HealthCare Acquisitions from the Patent Point of View
Breaking up a conglomerate is hard to do, but GE successfully spun off GE Healthcare early this year as a separate, publicly traded corporation. The offspring company…
IFI CLAIMS Technology Spotlight: Quantum Computing
The top trends and companies making advancements in quantum computing
The IFI Interview: Making Patents Usable with Dennemeyer Octimine
Octimine enables anyone in an organization to find, store, and label patents without the help of expensive specialists.
The IFI Interview: Viewing the Patent as a Whole
L‘ontologie shows how patents can illuminate a complex network of evolutionary technology that interacts and creates value.
The IFI Interview: Building Context Around Patents
Amplified CEO Sam Davis talks about how patents can be enriched with AI to create context—and a custom corporate asset that gets better over time.
The IFI Interview: The Role of Patents in ESG Investing with Lucas von Reuss
One of our partners, Quant IP, has developed an unbiased, quantitative system that helps investment managers tackle the environmental portion of ESG scoring.
IFI Insights: How Renewable Are U.S. Energy Patents?
IFI CLAIMS drilled down into two main patent codes around conventional and renewable energy. We then examined the technologies to see how green the patents really are.
The IFI Interview: Lucas von Reuss, CEO and Co-Founder of Quant IP
Quant IP is showing the finance industry how crucial patent information is to the allocation of capital.
A place for every patent, and every patent in its proper place
A place for every patent, and every patent in its proper place. That’s the aim of BlueFoot, a company providing patent intelligence to corporate IP departments and the U.S.
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IFI Insights: Inventing the Metaverse
Last year, the notion of a metaverse appeared to burst onto the scene out of nowhere. But a recent analysis of patent applications and grants shows that over the past…
Professional Intuition + AI = Better, Faster Patent Searches
Patents have long had a searchability problem. Between classification systems, prior art, and the tens of millions of patents on file, starting a comprehensive patent…
IFI Insights: Do patent applications of electric vehicle startups predict the road ahead
IFI CLAIMS looked at acquisitions by such companies as Amazon, Apple, Cummins and Volvo. We then evaluated the technologies of the startups acquired to see where…
Overpromised and Saturated?! - Positioning AI in IP
In this day and age, is it possible to go to an Intellectual Property (IP) conference or trade show and not be bombarded with the buzzword "artificial intelligence…
From Patents to Alpha
How to use patent data for stock selection and build an outperforming investment strategy Patents rarely make it into the news but as we all know the coronavirus…
Advanced Patent Monitoring using Artificial Intelligence and a Single-Source Database
Dennemeyer Octimine uses IFI patent data to power their AI-based patent monitoring system.
Speed and Accuracy Deliver a Competitive Advantage in IP
Being the first to acquire new patent information leads to strategic benefits.
Patent Grant Prediction with 99 Percent Success Rate
Our partner Quant IP used IFI patent data to create a useful machine learning tool.
AI Can’t be Named as an Inventor—Yet
Patent organizations rule that inventors must be a natural person, but things could change.
Patents and the Open COVID Pledge
Earlier this year, we announced the creation of the Open COVID Pledge. The aim of the group is to remove intellectual property (IP) barriers which could interfere…
