What Innography does

Innography, founded in 2006 in Austin, United States, was a patent analytics software company serving IP strategists who needed to analyze patent portfolios, map competitive landscapes, and develop defensible IP strategy. Its core platform aggregated and visualized patent and intellectual property data to surface competitive positioning, portfolio strengths, and monetization opportunities for corporate IP teams.

Following acquisition by Clarivate (NYSE: CLVT), Innography was rebranded as Derwent Patent Analytics and integrated into Clarivate's Derwent suite of intellectual property solutions. The current product surface comprises the core Derwent Patent Analytics platform and the Patent Scout add-on module for patent search and strategy building. Underpinning both is a large-scale patent data backbone inherited from Clarivate's Derwent franchise, which provides enriched, curated patent records used to power competitive landscape assessments and portfolio analyses.

The company operates as a for-profit, private business unit under strategic parent Clarivate. It uses a horizontal segmentation approach targeting IP strategists as its primary persona, with pricing not publicly disclosed. Pre-acquisition, Innography raised approximately $13 million across three funding rounds between 2008 and 2014 from investors including Austin Ventures, Comerica Incorporated, and Covera Ventures. The unit's standalone revenue, customer count, and current go-to-market mechanics are not disclosed in available source material, and the business now operates primarily as a Clarivate IP product line rather than an independent SaaS company.

Name

Innography

Website

https://app.innography.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Innography, now rebranded as Derwent Patent Analytics under Clarivate, is a patent analytics platform that helps IP strategists analyze patent portfolios, map competitive landscapes, and unlock value from organizational intellectual property. It serves corporate IP teams via Clarivate's Derwent suite.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Patent Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

IP Search, Watch & Competitive Intelligence (BPAHAMAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

IP & Patent Information Publishing (Patent/Litigation Analytics, Prior Art) (MPAJACAK), IP Management, Patents & Trademark Software (BPAEAPAN), Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Management (BPAHAMAA)

Keywords

• Patent analytics software
• Intellectual property intelligence
• Competitive landscape analysis
• IP portfolio management
• Patent strategy platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Innography provides a patent analytics software platform (now operating as Derwent Patent Analytics under Clarivate) that helps IP strategists understand the competitive landscape, strengthen their patent portfolio, and unlock value from intellectual property. The platform is offered alongside a Patent Scout add-on product that supports patent search and IP strategy development for corporate IP, R&D, and legal teams.

Product overview

Derwent Patent Analytics is a unified patent intelligence platform (formerly Innography) that provides IP strategists with tools to understand competitive landscapes, strengthen patent portfolios, and unlock value from organizational intellectual property. The platform comprises the core Derwent Patent Analytics product along with the Patent Scout add-on module for patent search and strategy building. The company is owned by Clarivate.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Derwent Patent Analytics (formerly Innography) Patent analytics software platform that helps IP strategists understand the competitive landscape, strengthen their organization's patent portfolio, and unlock value from intellectual property. Built for corporate IP, R&D, and legal teams as a web-based SaaS application.
• Patent Scout Add-on product to the Innography / Derwent Patent Analytics platform that supports patent search and IP strategy development for organizations managing intellectual property.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• IPlytics: Patent analytics platform specializing in standards-essential patents, SEP analytics, and technology landscaping — overlapping with patent portfolio and competitive intelligence use cases.
• Anaqua: IP management and analytics platform serving corporate IP departments and law firms with portfolio management, docketing, and strategic analytics capabilities.
• PatSnap: AI-driven patent analytics platform offering competitive intelligence, landscape analysis, and IP strategy tools to corporate IP teams and R&D — directly overlapping with Derwent Patent Analytics' core use cases.
• Orbit Intelligence (Questel): Patent search and analytics suite from Questel providing portfolio analysis, competitor monitoring, and family data — a direct comparable for IP strategists evaluating analytics platforms.
• LexisNexis PatentAdvisor: Patent analytics and prosecution benchmarking tool used by attorneys and IP strategists to assess patent quality, examiner behavior, and portfolio strength.

Emerging players

• Relecura: Patent analytics platform focused on technology valuation, competitive benchmarking, and licensing analytics — addressing similar IP strategist personas with a more analytics-and-AI-oriented approach.
• Gridlogics (Patent iNSIGHT Pro): Patent analytics and landscaping tool used for competitive intelligence and R&D strategy, with comparable feature set around portfolio visualization and prior-art analysis.

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis: Large information services incumbent with patent search, analytics, and legal workflow products that overlap with patent analytics for IP strategists and legal professionals.
• CPA Global (now part of Clarivate): IP management and outsourcing services (now under Clarivate) that provide complementary patent portfolio administration and analytics, partially overlapping with the patent analytics offering.
• Clarivate (Derwent suite): The parent organization itself; offers broader IP intelligence including Derwent World Patents Index, Cortellis, and CompuMark that bundle with and compete against the Derwent Patent Analytics product.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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