Patent & IP Data Scraping Services

Because one company appears as dozens of strings across offices — legal entity variants, subsidiary names, transliterations, abbreviations and outright typos in official records. Without normalisation, a competitor portfolio is fragmented and understated.

We normalise using string similarity, co-filing patterns, inventor overlap and classification profile, delivering a normalised entity with a confidence score and separate subsidiary-to-parent mapping. Our rate is about 95.8% on major filers and lower on long-tail small-entity filings, and we report it by filer size rather than as one figure.

Because one invention filed in fifteen jurisdictions generates fifteen records. Counting records measures filing strategy rather than inventive output, and it inflates portfolios unevenly depending on how internationally a company files.

We link filings into families with a family identifier, size and jurisdiction list, so portfolio comparisons count inventions. Both views are available — family-level for portfolio comparison, record-level where jurisdiction detail matters.

No, and we will not. Validity, infringement, freedom-to-operate and patentability are legal assessments requiring qualified counsel and claim construction against specific products.

An opinion from a data vendor has no professional standing and no insurance behind it, so if a decision made on it goes wrong you carry the entire consequence. What we do is make counsel's work faster: a normalised, family-linked, classification-tagged inventory rather than raw search exports.

As current as office publication allows, which lags actual events — sometimes by months. Every status field ships with status_as_of stating the date the status reflects.

This is deliberate. Presenting a status as current when it reflects an older office update is the most common way patent datasets mislead, and it matters most in exactly the situations where accuracy is critical, such as expiry and lapse assessment.

Where offices publish it publicly, yes, in the publication language. Coverage and format vary by office, and some make full text available while others publish only bibliographic data and abstracts openly.

We state per office what full-text availability looks like during scoping. Where full text is only available through a licensed product, we say so rather than substituting an abstract and letting you assume you have claims.

Yes — trademark records with mark text, Nice classes, status and opposition indications where published, plus design registrations from offices that publish them openly.

Trademark data is often more immediately useful for brand protection work, and it joins to our seller monitoring service for enforcement workflows against unauthorised sellers using registered marks.

Original script is retained alongside transliteration, and normalisation accounts for inconsistent transliteration across offices — which is a major source of assignee fragmentation for Japanese, Korean and Chinese filers.

Titles and abstracts are captured in the publication language with translation available for triage. As with tender documents, translation is for filtering rather than for analysis, and the original remains authoritative.

Different rather than cheaper, and worth being clear about. Commercial IP databases include analytical layers, curated data and search interfaces that we do not provide, and for many IP teams that product is the right purchase.

We are a better fit when you need normalised bibliographic data delivered into your own systems for integration with other datasets, or when your requirement is continuous monitoring feeding an internal pipeline rather than analyst desktop search. If your team primarily needs desktop search and analytics, licence the commercial product.

We quote individually. The drivers are jurisdiction and office count, classification or entity scope, whether full text is required where available, and refresh frequency for status and new publication monitoring.

A focused competitor entity set across major offices sits at the lighter end. Broad classification landscapes across many jurisdictions with full text and monthly status refresh sits higher. One scoping call, a free pilot on your own entity list within 48 hours, then a fixed quote. Request a quote.