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News Stories
IFI Fall Newsletter 2024
IFI at IP Service World Come meet us at IP Service World in Munich, Germany on November 25th & 26th! Interested in learning how IFI tracks corporate…
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.
IFI Summer Newsletter 2024
Another 5 Countries Added to IFI's Patent Data Collection IFI has added an additional 5 countries to its patent data repository including South Africa,…
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 Spring Newsletter 2024
IFI's Annual Rankings are Live! IFI's annual patent rankings are now available! Find out which companies topped the US Top 50, the Global 250, and the S&P…
IFI CLAIMS Technology Spotlight: AI and the Real Estate Sector
Our monthly look at leading companies in top technologies—and one hot patent.
IBM leads Google and Microsoft as race to next generation AI heats up
Major players are vying for top position as Generative AI drives technology patent grants up by 16% in the last five years and applications by 31%, according to a new…
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.
Samsung Leads Again in U.S. Patents while Qualcomm Leaps into Second Place
New 2023 patent data rankings highlight escalating areas of R&D activity: autonomous vehicles, electrical (along with conventional) smoking devices, and laundry…
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.
'Green' energy patents more focused on 'clean' conventional energy instead of renewables
New data shows industry has stronger focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions of current fuel sources, less commitment to renewables and ‘Net Zero’.
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.
