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Our Services
Patent Sourcing
Deal Origination
Identifying the most valuable patents and facilitating platforms, partners, and structures for optimal monetization.
Patent Engineering
AI-driven infringement analysis that goes beyond standard patent analysis to provide deep insights capable of directly impacting capital markets.
Patent Brokerage
AI-driven buyer/seller matching based on proprietary infringement database insights.
Patent Commercialization
Monetization
Maximizing patent value via sale, license, and/or litigation.
Tokenization
Tokenizing single or multiple litigation cases to promote participation from a wide range of investors.
Advisory
Data provision and data-backed consulting for clients interested in strategic intangible asset utilization.
Asset Management
Patent Aggregation
Strategic acquisition and management of valuable, infringed patents.
Patent Pool Support
Direct and indirect licensing of large patent portfolios to patent pools.
Our Products
IPDefine is an alternative data provider that has developed the world's first AI capable of identifying and rating patent infringement, to unlock the full value of patents as an asset class.
Sentry is our development dashboard, enabling monitoring and performance insights for the IPDefine ecosystem.
Highlights
All metrics flow from our 38 portfolios under management
About Us
IPDefine is a Tokyo-headquartered company comprised ofinternational legal, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and finance experts. We began in 2020 with an idea to uncover the value lying dormant in infringed patents–a market estimated to be worth $40 trillion. By 2022, our proprietary patent infringement discovery AI was complete; and by the end of 2023, we finished running our AI on every granted patent across 10 countries, which culminated in the completion of the world’s first patent infringement database.
Since then, we have been uncovering more infringement, and leveraging our immensely powerful data set, to unlock the full value of patents as an asset class through patent brokerage, patent monetization advisory, and direct patent monetization. Most recently, we achieved the significant milestone of being the top patent monetization originator in Japan and are rapidly expanding our coverage in Taiwan.
In the future, we plan to further leverage our data and insights to provide groundbreaking insights to financial services providers, while also making patents more accessible to an even wider audience through patent securitization.
Core Team
Aaron Benjamin Mollin
CEO
Joined IPDefine in 2022 as CLO, becoming CEO in 2023. Legal experience covers in-house and private practice across IP, M&A, and disputes. BA (Hons) University of Toronto, JD University of Tennessee.
Shoji Suzuki
Chief Research Officer
Master's from Tokyo University of Science. Conducted research in foundational AI science. Investigates cutting-edge AI technologies applied to finance and intellectual property.
Haruki Marumo
Chief Development Officer
Master's from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Experienced in utilizing AI to analyze complex biological phenomena and developing algorithms integrating financial and IP data.
Satoshi Nishiyama
Chief Strategy Officer
BA University of Tokyo. Former CFO/CEO of Sumitomo Real Estate's Dalian subsidiary. Key role in corporate revitalization at Dream Incubator. Joined IPDefine in 2022.
Mitsuhiro Okamoto
COO / Founder
Masters in chemistry, Kyoto University. Researcher in Nobel Prize–winning Kitagawa Lab. Former IP Dept at Toyota Industries and NGB Corporation. Founded IPDefine in 2020.