“Investing for everyone, from the Cash-strapped to the deep-pocketed.”

In the face of constant innovation, help intellectual-property-aware investors make the right decision about which company to invest in, which patents to buy, lease or sell according to current market trends OR which stock to track given the corresponding company’s patent portfolio in promising and emerging technologies.

Promising future-proof fields for sustainable investments include but are not limited to: biotech, nanotech, cognitive science, robotics, AI, IoT, 5G, Serverless computing, Blockchain, 3D printing, cloud computing, fintech etc.

This application would help locate companies (i.e. stocks) with a rich patents portfolio in these fields as a strong signal for future sustained profitability. The rationale behind patented stocks is that investors often seek a form of protection and guarantee regarding the long-term profitability of their assets. Patents provide a legal hedge against cutthroat competition for hot products & services released or offered by these companies. As long as the USPTO -issued patent is legally valid and enforced, there are assurances that the technology/product is protected and consequently, the companies will keep making generous returns in a legally protected manner with little competition for their innovative products & services.

• Prospective users can create an account and leverage authentication.
• Search a particular stock and get a detailed view.
• Sort listings of stocks by columns (ticker symbol, last price, patents portfolio size) or according to the custom price/IP ratio attached to a specific user enabling weighing of stocks for custom ordering of listings.
• Track projected stocks through adding to a wishlist.
• Detailed view of the wishlist with custom tags and breakdown of equity by tags.
• IP30 stock index: a patents-weighted index serving as a benchmark measuring the stock performance of 30 companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States that hold the largest number of patents portfolio (the 30 most patented companies). Other popular stock indexes for other purposes include: S&P500, DJIA, IXIC etc.
• Automated real-time stock quotes updating.

• The United States Patent and Trademark Office (hereafter USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification. Data used in the visualization is pulled from the USPTO API in real-time. USPTO periodically refreshes the data behind their API.
• IEX Cloud is a platform that makes financial data and services accessible to everyone through their IEX API.