ktMINE

ktMINE is a Chicago-based provider of intellectual-property and transactions data. Its collections cover patents, trademarks, assignments, licence agreements, royalty rates, corporate ownership structures, and patent litigation, with browser applications and data-delivery services for legal, valuation, transfer-pricing, commercialization, and investment research.^[1]

Unlike patent databases concerned mainly with bibliographic and technical records, ktMINE places particular emphasis on transactions: agreements, licensed rights, payment terms, comparable royalty rates, and links between intellectual-property assets and corporate groups. Datarade independently classifies the company as a provider of IP, patent, trademark, royalty-rate, and corporate-tree data.^[3]

What It Does

ktMINE combines records from multiple parts of the IP lifecycle so researchers can move between an asset, its owner, related assignments, licensing activity, and relevant court cases. Corporate-tree information is used to connect subsidiaries and holdings, while patent and trademark assignment data helps identify ownership changes.^[1]

For transfer-pricing and valuation work, the service supports searches for comparable licence agreements and royalty rates. For commercialization, it can be used to identify potential partners, examine transaction precedents, and evaluate market evidence surrounding a technology or brand.^[1]

Data and Methodology

The company reports a licence-agreement database containing more than 100,000 agreements and access to more than 250,000 licensed patents.^[1] It also describes linked trademark terms and payments, royalty-rate records, patent court cases, corporate trees, and IP-related news. These totals and the claim that its platform is the largest of its kind are company statements; Datarade confirms the data categories but does not audit record counts.^[3]

Public materials do not provide a complete source register, update schedule for every collection, or measured matching accuracy. Agreement coverage may also reflect what is publicly disclosed or otherwise obtainable, so the database should not be interpreted as a census of all private IP licences.

Products and Delivery

Applications include Benchmark for comparables analysis, Commercialization for market evidence, Profiles for company portfolios, Search for cross-dataset research, Royalty Rates, and an Analytics Widget for embedding visualizations in other systems.^[1] Delivery services include APIs, bulk or flat-file data, and managed preparation in customer-specified formats.^[1] Datarade states that ktMINE does not publish standard pricing and requires prospective users to request current terms.^[3]

Buyers and Use Cases

The company markets its products to transfer-pricing teams, law firms, corporations, universities, governments, consultants, and investment firms.^[1] Workflows include benchmarking intercompany royalty arrangements, valuing intangible assets, researching ownership and litigation, supporting university technology transfer, monitoring competitors, and using patent or licensing activity as an investment signal.

History

ktMINE's corporate history says it was founded in Chicago in 2008 by DePaul University graduates, initially around royalty-rate benchmarking. It dates its first licence-agreement application to 2012, patent and search tools to 2013, company profiles to 2015, and bulk agreement-data distribution to 2018.^[2] These dates are self-published but are specific and internally consistent; no financing figures are stated because the reviewed independent sources did not verify them.

The company lists an office on West Adams Street in Chicago.^[1] Its Datarade profile is unclaimed and automatically generated, which makes it useful as an independent category check but not a detailed corporate history.^[3]