Welcome to IFI CLAIMS^® Patent Services

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.