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Here’s an overview of what IPX provides:

Technical Analysis

• Who holds patents in the same classes?
• How does this patent rank in its class?

Context Analysis

• What makes this technology unique?
• What competing approaches are nearby in patents and academic literature?
• Which of these terms show up on corporate websites?
• What products and academic research describe the same concepts?

Referential Analysis

• Who references my portfolio, clusters or patents the most?
• Who holds the most valuable patents that reference this portfolio?

Semantic Analysis

• Who holds the patents that describe concepts that are most similar to this disclosure, application or patent?
• How many of the 100 most similar patents do various assignees hold?
• Which of those are the most valuable?
• Do they create validity risks for my patents?

All of these criteria are then used to find candidates for co-development, licensing and enforcement.

• An institution’s applications and patents let you know about its strategic direction.
• What is its product/business strategy?
• Does it have a need for the art described in our patents or applications?
• Should we file new disclosures based on our research direction and its anticipated needs?
• Does the candidate have products with implications for our patents?
• Who are the best partners to help us monetize the patent or cluster?