Patent data
Data that reads patents
by quality, not count
RenaAi builds alternative data with its own methodology and connects it to global financial markets. This page covers our third asset after market-area and equity data: patent intelligence.
We quantify forward citations, global family, enforceability and design-around difficulty to build data that reads patent quality, and connect it to company assessment and investment, and to IP finance such as valuation, collateral and securitization.
Patent intelligence at a glance
- What we build
- Patent quality signals · forward citations, global family, enforceability, design-around difficulty
- Engine
- IPRenaAi
- Used for
- Company assessment and investment; valuation, collateral and securitization
- Rights review
- CLO (patent attorney and attorney-at-law)
- Value judgment
- CEO, a former fund manager
Generation · IPRenaAi
We read patent quality through four signals
IPRenaAi is an engine that reads patents by quality and value, not by count. It quantifies forward citations, family, enforceability and design-around difficulty and turns them into signals for company assessment and investment.
After market-area and equity data, it is our third alternative data track: an assessment signal that looks at the real competitiveness of tech companies from outside the financial statements.
Patent quality signals
- Forward citations
- Influence
- Global family
- Intent to defend
- Enforceability · claim scope
- Moat
- Design-around difficulty
- Barrier to entry
Validation · value chain
Five steps from patent data to an investment decision
1
Understand
Decode the strength and quality of claims
2
Assess
Technology · enforceability · marketability
3
Company
Moat · competitive advantage
4
BM
Products · revenue · margins
5
Invest
Results · valuation · decisions
Patent tools are strong at (1) Understand; investment research is strong at (4) BM and (5) Invest. IPRenaAi connects all five steps from understanding to investment in one flow, and that connection is the moat.
Connection · IP finance
Three paths that turn value and rights into capital
Valuation · securitization
A patent is a financial asset with maturity, dividend and option features. We price it and connect it to collateral, funds, securitization and RWA. This addresses valuation, the bottleneck of IP finance.
Global IP enforcement · litigation finance
We use AI to find dormant Korean patents and enforce the rights in the US through litigation finance (capital that shares the proceeds if you win and takes nothing if you lose). Moving the jurisdiction (which country’s court) can change the value of the same patent by tens of times.
Yoo Yeon, CLO · rights and enforcement
Seven years as a patent attorney at Shinsung Patent Law Firm (SK hynix patents), and an attorney-at-law. Judges whether a right will survive in the US and directs enforcement. Finance looks at value; law looks at rights.
The global IP enforcement market
- Korea-to-US damages gap
- 66x
- US patent-holder win rate
- 72%
- Global litigation finance
- $25.5bn
Note: The damages gap, win rate and litigation finance size are market statistics cross-checked against KIPO, IPDaily and press reports. They do not guarantee the outcome of any individual case.
IP finance articles
IP finance articles by CEO Byung-Geun Choi
A series that explains patents in the language of currency, bonds, dividends, options and securitization, read through a fund manager's eyes.
See all articles- 00OverviewWhen patents become assets: a fund manager looks at patents
- 01CurrencyIs a patent "money" or an "asset"?
- 02MaturityA patent is an asset with a maturity: reading patents as bonds
- 03DividendsA patent is a dividend-paying asset: reading patents through licensing
- 04OptionsA patent is an option: a call option, premium already paid, that goes to zero at expiry
- 05SecuritizationTrading patents like stocks: Korea's IP finance market, and why RenaAi is entering it
Free IP review
We will assess the value of your patents for free
We show the value, robustness and enforceability of your patents in numbers. Our CLO, a patent attorney and attorney-at-law, and CEO Byung-Geun Choi, a former fund manager, handle it personally.
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