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Patsnap
Patsnap is a Singapore-founded innovation intelligence company whose AI-native platform helps R&D and IP teams search, analyze, and act on the world's patents, scientific literature, and market data. Used by more than 10,000 organizations across 50-plus countries, its flagship Eureka platform applies large language models and specialized AI agents to compress labor-intensive tasks - prior art search, freedom-to-operate analysis, patent landscaping, and drug-discovery intelligence - from weeks into minutes.
Tradespace
Tradespace is a San Francisco company building an end-to-end, AI-powered platform for managing intellectual property. It covers the full patent lifecycle - invention capture, AI-assisted drafting, prosecution, portfolio management and commercialization - so in-house IP teams can run a scalable function without paying traditional law-firm billable-hour rates. The platform manages over 440,000 patents for 80+ organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and roughly 75% of top US research universities.
IP Author
IP Author is an AI-powered patent drafting and prosecution platform for corporate patent teams and IP law firms. Founded in 2023 and based in Fremont, California, it unifies invention disclosure, patent drafting, prior art search, and office action responses into a single generative-AI workspace. The company says its tools cut drafting time by 40-60%, generating full applications - claims, specifications, abstracts, and diagrams - in hours instead of days. Customers include Qualcomm, ResMed, Chevron, and Elmos Semiconductor.
Ruvixx, Inc.
Ruvixx is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that helps licensing, brand protection and compliance teams turn scattered data into recoverable revenue. Its platform centralizes intellectual-property workflows - from lead detection to royalty reporting - pairing AI-driven analytics and OSINT with human expert teams. Trusted by enterprises like Dolby, Adobe, Trimble and Chaos Group, Ruvixx targets the trillion-dollar gap between what brands are owed and what they actually collect.
Ling Xiao
Ling Xiao is the CEO of Ruvixx, Inc., a San Francisco-based SaaS platform helping enterprise brands protect intellectual property, automate license compliance, and convert market opportunities into revenue. A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in Silicon Valley, he co-founded Playdom - the social gaming company acquired by Disney in 2010 for up to $763 million - and later co-founded GGWP, an AI-powered platform tackling toxicity in online gaming. Trained in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford, Xiao brings a rare combination of engineering rigor, product instinct, and entrepreneurial range that has taken him from Google's data teams to Disney's exec suite to the frontier of brand intelligence.