IFI CLAIMS Patent Services

10/06/2026

Our annual Global 250 ranks the world's largest active holders, and this year's results reveal a clear leader: State Grid Corp of China, with more than 147,000 active patent families. China claims 7 of the top 10 spots on the list overall, with electric digital data processing and wireless communications among the leading technology trends across the top companies.

See the full rankings and what they reveal about global : https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings/2026-global-trends-insights/

07/28/2026

Our latest IFI Insights report, "Inventing AI," tracks the rapid rise of agentic AI (now 15% of U.S. filings, up from just 7%) and identifies which companies — from Samsung and Google to Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic — are actually protecting their innovations.

Curious who's really leading the AI patent race? Read the full report: https://www.ificlaims.com/news/ifi-insights-inventing-ai/

03/25/2026

Data centers are the factory floors for the current artificial intelligence boom. These digital farms are multiplying at a speed that’s nearly as breathtaking as the AI bringing about the expansion. Considering the breakthrough innovations surrounding , IFI CLAIMS decided to survey recent activity related to data centers to see how invention is shaping up in that space. What we found (and didn’t find) is an eye-opener. See our report here: https://www.ificlaims.com/news/ifi-tech-spotlight-data-centers/

03/24/2026

Take a look at this deeply reported piece, “China Is Ripping Up the Rulebook,” from Bloomberg about China’s innovative auto industry becoming a global competitive force. Patents are one important way to measure , and the article cites IFI CLAIMS, the world’s most trusted data provider, to show how China is lapping other countries’ innovations when it comes to land transport.

Check out the story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-23/china-s-ev-boom-sees-byd-geely-leapmotor-rewriting-global-auto-industry-rules

To learn more about IFI CLAIMS and how its patent can boost strategic thinking in your business or investment portfolio, visit our website here: www.ificlaims.com

A Chinese-made Leapmotor C10 was traveling down Germany’s fast-moving Autobahn last year when the driver-assistance system braked sharply and jolted it to the side, as if boxed in by scooters in a crowded China megacity.

02/11/2026

A patent for a bottle opener disguised as a flip flop was this CEO’s first introduction to the world of commercializing . He was in high school at the time. Today, he runs a company that helps corporate R&D mine market intelligence from . Meet Steve Hafif, founder and CEO of Cypris.

Check out the full interview here: https://www.ificlaims.com/news/the-ifi-interview-steve-hafif-founder-and-ceo-of-cypris/

02/04/2026

Global data update: Full-text from Monaco, Estonia, and Serbia is now available in CLAIMS Direct. Enhance your solutions with the most accurate global coverage.

Learn more about IFI's data platform: https://www.ificlaims.com/platform/data-coverage/

01/29/2026

Waste not. That’s what 2025 applications are telling us in IFI CLAIMS’ annual Fastest Growing Technologies ranking. Nine of the Top 10 tech areas relate to , including mitigating waste. Patent applications give the market important signals, and in 2025, they had this to say: The economy needs to become more circular.

Explore IFI’s fast growing here: https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings/tech-growth-2025/

01/21/2026

Any professional knows this patent truth: when it comes to applications, they can’t be taken for granted. That’s also what IFI CLAIMS found after analyzing the 2025 statistics from the USPTO. After a long seven-year climb to an all-time high in 2024, the number of applications plunged last year—a dramatic reversal of a long-standing trend. But while some things changed, others stayed the same. The top three ranking companies held onto their previous positions.

Find more insight on these datapoints and others from IFI’s annual patent rankings here: https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings/trends-2025/

01/15/2026

IFI CLAIMS’ annual Top 50 doesn’t contain companies that are just rank and file. Our list features the corporate superstars that file patents—lots of them. Only then do we rank these companies based on what inventions they’ve won from the USPTO throughout the year. Introducing IFI’s 2025 Top 50. Drum roll please. See which companies are holding, gaining, or losing ground: https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings/top-50-2025/

01/13/2026

John Koetsier over at Forbes just put out a thorough wrap-up of IFI CLAIMS’ Top 10 Fastest Growing Technologies, out today. Most of these flourishing deal with aspects of the that need to become more circular. “Admittedly, these aren’t as sexy as AI or quantum computing,” he writes (and we agree!). But he points out that they’re as important because “they represent critical infrastructure for the clean energy transition and for sustainable industrialization.”

These expanding technologies are significant pieces of information for looking at how corporate R&D is allocating its capital; they serve as clues for where the market is heading in the near future.

See IFI’s Top 10 Fastest Growing Technologies here: https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings/tech-growth-2025/

And don’t miss the Forbes article, which can be found at this link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/01/13/323272-patents-reveal-the-top-10-fastest-growing-technologies/

You won't find AI. Or quantum computing. In fact, most of the fastest-growing technologies for 2026 are in batteries, recycling, materials handling and bioinformatics.