High-quality, accurate patent data
IFI’s proprietary technology architecture gives you access to the most up-to-date and accurate patent data in the world. Whether you sell your own analytics tool, need third party data for internal intelligence, or are looking for an edge on investment decisions, IFI can help.
When you get good data from all over the world that is easy to work with and then you have a team that is there to support it all the time, well, that’s a pretty easy decision.”
Key features
IFI Names
Corporate name mapping to patent holding organizations.
Calculated expiration dates
Easily forecast expiring technologies and patents for a company with IFI’s adjusted expiration dates.
English translations
Access patents from around the world in their original language and in English
Legal status
Find which stage of the patent life cycle a technology is currently in with legal status information.
Automatic update process
Unlike other patent data sources, our update process is fully automated to ensure reliable, timely data synchronization. When we update the IFI database, all customers and partners receive the update simultaneously.


Extensible platform
Adding and merging new types of information is what the CLAIMS Direct platform was developed to do. The specialized architecture can be merged with other internal or external data sources. And the IFI team will design the right hosting option according to your data requirements and privacy needs.
175m+
patent records
100+
data sources
105+
countries with bibliographic data
58
countries with full text
Explore what IFI CLAIMS Patent Services has to offer