IPqwery

IPqwery is a Canadian intellectual-property data provider that assembles patent and trademark records into company-level profiles. It supplies normalized records, ownership mappings, and summary measures through an API, bulk feeds, reports, and custom extracts for research and data-enrichment applications.^[1][2]

The service is designed to resolve a central problem in registry data: the same corporate group may appear under multiple names, subsidiaries, or holding companies. IPqwery applies name matching and contextual entity disambiguation, then groups related rights holders so that users can examine a consolidated portfolio rather than a list of unconnected assignee names.^[1]

What It Does

IPqwery links patents and trademarks to companies that own them and permits queries by company or domain name. Its records can include filing, approval, renewal, and expiry dates; patent abstracts; inventors; classifications; trademark goods-and-services descriptions; and links back to source-office records.^[2] Public-company mappings can include ticker and ISIN identifiers, while other fields connect records to domains and Crunchbase identifiers.^[2]

The resulting dataset supports portfolio inventories, comparisons between companies or sectors, and the association of brands or products with corporate owners. It does not itself grant, examine, or determine the legal validity of intellectual-property rights; those functions remain with the source registries.

Data and Methodology

Datarade's verified provider profile identifies USPTO, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, EUIPO, and WIPO as source registries and describes normalization into a common patent-and-trademark structure.^[2] IPqwery says its matching process uses contextual clues to distinguish similar corporate names and a name-similarity engine to group related owners.^[1]

For historical analysis, the company says each record is indexed to an owner on a daily basis so that past ownership structures and changes can be reconstructed.^[1] Datarade lists weekly delivery updates for several marketed datasets.^[2] These statements describe different processing and distribution stages; the reviewed pages do not publish independent precision, recall, or completeness tests for entity matching.

Products and Delivery

Delivery formats include API access, subscription data feeds, FTP delivery, one-off reports, and customized extracts. Datarade lists one-off purchase, annual-license, and usage-based pricing models, with quotes supplied for individual requirements rather than a universal public tariff.^[2] The official site also links IPqwery to Dewey, whose marketplace has an IPqwery product page, although the publicly fetched page exposes no dataset details.^[3]

Buyers and Use Cases

Data providers can add IP summaries to company profiles, while investment and corporate researchers can monitor filing activity, portfolio growth, ownership changes, technology classifications, and brand registrations. Other stated applications include due diligence, company valuation, business intelligence, know-your-business enrichment, and mapping products or brands to a parent and listed security.^[1][2]

History and Verification

Datarade states that IPqwery launched in 2016 as a partnership between two legal-sector data providers and lists Canada as its headquarters.^[2] The official site does not identify the partners, publish funding information, or provide a named customer list.^[1] Consequently, no financing figures or customer claims are included here.