Rather than simply acquiring data, Innography normalizes and correlates data and then visually represents it in a way that enables you to interpret it more quickly with greater meaning. For example, IBM is spelled approximately 200 different ways as patent and trademark assignees, as litigation parties, and as entries in business and other data sources. Instead of searching all those different spellings, Innography automatically processes and normalizes each spelling into a single IBM reference. We then correlate IBM financial, legal, market and other data from IBM and display it in an intuitive way.

Innography also uses very fast, sophisticated search algorithms that enable unique, one-click searches. Innography presents the resulting data-set much faster than similar tools. The result is an integrated experience which enables you to make decisions from a single set of information instead of cutting and pasting from several different information sources. This approach leads to better and faster decisions.

Patent Data Sources
Research over 70 million global patent documents updated weekly from:

• United States (US) patents and applications, European (EP) patents and applications, Japanese (JP) patent and applications, and World Intellectual Property Organization (WO) patent applications
• INPADOC Legal Status database (international patent legal status including re-assignment, maintenance, interference, re-examination, opposition, etc)
• Bibliographic data from INPADOC covering over 70 countries from more than 40 patent authorities

Trademark Database
Research over 5 million trademarks updated weekly from:

• US Trademarks (Live, Pending, and Dead)
• Maintenance and Assignment database
• Proprietary SemaMap(TM) process for mapping to/from patents

Other Data Sources
Integrate patent data with key business information to provide business-level views by correlating company financial inforamtion (worldwide publicly traded, 250,000+ private European/Asian, and 14 million US), SEC subsidiaries listing, Patent Litigation (US federal court PACER database)

Most information is updated every week as new information is published. Some information is less frequent, given the nature of the data, like year-end company data. If you have a question about a specific database, we can provide more details.

Yes, we enable you to import patents into a project workspace in which you can label patents or groups according to your own custom labels. You can then visualize and analyze your imported set of patents, or ask Innography algorithms to suggest a similar set of patents. We also enable you to export patents and their different fields and to export group counts.

Yes, you can import any patent and perform analytics on all of them or a subset of them.

Patents are living documents, and Innography constantly tracks related information. We track and update assignment and re-assignment information, expiration, maintenance, references and other data such as opposition, re-examination and interference records. Similarly, we track and correlate associated corporate, litigation and financial information.

We have information regarding finance, size, etc. on 13 million small U.S. companies through Dunn and Bradstreet (D&B). For large European companies, we have data on the world's 40,000 largest companies from stock market and other data sources. However, small companies in Europe, Asia and elsewhere are not covered in D&B data. While we don't have financial information for smaller foreign companies, we can provide a significant amount of information for them based on patent, litigation and other activities.

We have identified seven of the top areas within our customers’ organization where Innography’s IP business intelligence software brings value. We have developed a set of best practice workflows to capture the specific activities associated with each. These areas include

• Licensing — Portfolio to Cash Process
• Litigation Defense — Summons to Settlement Process
• Open Innovation — Partner Identification Process
• Competitive Intelligence — Competitive Landscape to Strategy Process
• Freedom to Operate — Product to Profit Process
• IP Clearance — Idea to Asset (patent or trademark) Process
• Portfolio Management/Maintenance — Patent to Performance Process

We focus on these workflows and business specific scenarions in our customized product demonstrations as well as when training new users.

Trademarks are registered names for products and brands. Innography has developed a patent-pending semantic mapping process, by which we map which patent technology classifications are associated with which trademark technology codes. This mapping allows us to target what IP might potentially cover which product and brands. At a broader level we are trying to associate which products map into which patent spaces and vice-versa. This correlation enables analysis that previously has never been possible in an automated way.

For instance, we can analyze which companies have strong patent presence in certain technology areas as well as strong product/brand (trademark) presence. We can look for intersections or differences between them to identify which companies are strong in patents but weak commercially and also the other way around. This type of analysis will revolutionize the ways that licensing managers and competitive intelligence professionals approach IP-analysis to make better business decisions.

We subscribe to US court litigation data (PACER) and update the data at regular intervals, which yields current information on the plaintiff, defendant, court, dates, etc. We also mine information (such as judgments) from other data sources to get patent numbers, judgment action (win/loss) and financial information (when available) for the case. Innography also scans relevant court documents to correlate the patents and the litigation cases with which they are associated.

We track the assignment records to find those companies that change ownership, and we therefore know the current owner of record with the patent office and the original owner simultaneously. Therefore, as patents change ownership through patent office reassignment, these updates will appear in the Innography database.

Innography users also have the ability to create virtual entities into which they can group multiple companies together enabling the analysis of multiple portfolios as a single pool. Users can also compare virtual entity portfolios to see the overlap as well as strengths and weaknesses of each virtual entity.

While you can perform the entire search in Innography, we realize that some users will be skilled at using other search engines to gather results. We therefore allow you to import and export information in CSV formats compatible with other systems as well as data from many of the other top search tools in their native formats. We are constantly working to improve analytics for clients, so we are open to working on new systems you might want us to support as well.

Innography can compare entire company portfolios to each other in order to determine how similar or different they are. We offer this feature for over six million companies, analyzing all their classifications, and finding those that are most closely related to each company. The result is that we can find both obvious and non-obvious competitors. Many clients find this feature extremely helpful as they analyze the competition and conduct strategic market analysis.

Our database contains:

• 65 million unique patents with proprietary statistics
• 13 million companies with full financial, credit, contact, employment and other data
• 12 million people with employment, expertise, location, etc.
• 150,000 markets – technology areas and industries with information on buyers, suppliers, salaries, etc.
• 60,000 patent lawsuit data and statistics for the last 40 years
• Mappings between brand/product registered trademarks and patent IPC codes

We deliver our product as a yearly subscription. Pricing is dependent on level of commitment and length of contract.

Your query and analysis information is stored only at your request by instantly capturing it to a virtual project workspace. If you request the project or analysis to be deleted, we purge it from your history record and it no longer exists. We therefore only store query and analysis you want us to store.

We provide physical and virtual security for our data centers. This includes firewalls, password encryption, SSL sessions and other features you would expect from an enterprise-class solution.

Innography is a hosted solution that allows you to avoid the costs of IT overhead and maintenance. You can therefore access your information securely from anywhere in the world, especially from behind your corporate firewall. Because Innography has terabytes of data updated frequently, in most cases hosting it behind your firewall is unnecessary.

For Innography Unlimited Edition, however, we can enable you to host your project data. As you accumulate both external and internal data in your Innography projects, we can arrange for it to be saved behind your firewall.

It takes approximately two to three hours to gain familiarity with the system. To assist you, we provide online tutorials that give you specific application lessons (e.g. perform an invalidation search) with step-by-step examples, as well as weekly live workshops on various topics. Advanced training webinars are open to all users on a weekly basis and advanced private training sessions are also available.

We provide a software as a service, or SaaS, model that allows you to turn on the system without the need for any kind of installation. We offer a Web-based subscription with an online account that is accessible anywhere in the world and protected by our secure system.

Support is available by e-mail, online or phone. You can e-mail us at support@innography.com or call 512.306.8688, Option 2.