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Marketing data and research

Marketing data sources for SaaS and developer founders

Find external data for market research, competitor analysis and content: data tools, public datasets, industry benchmarks, surveys and reports. Compare coverage, access and limitations.

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USPTO Patent Public Search

Map competing technical approaches, assignees, inventors, and emerging areas such as data systems, AI, observability, and developer infrastructure. Patent activity can reveal technical direction and crowdedness before competitors become obvious through commercial marketing.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Map competing technical approaches, assignees, inventors, and emerging areas such as data systems, AI, observability, and developer infrastructure.

Patent / technology intelligencePrice not confirmed
PatentsAccount or API key

European Patent Office Open Patent Services (OPS)

Monitor innovation and competitive activity around developer infrastructure, databases, AI, and data engineering; identify assignees, technology themes, and patent-event trends. Useful for technical founders and research-heavy data products that need authoritative innovation and competitor signals beyond web analytics.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Monitor innovation and competitive activity around developer infrastructure, databases, AI, and data engineering; identify assignees, technology themes, and patent-event trends.

Patent and innovation dataPrice not confirmed
PatentsOpen access

Australian Patent Search (IP Australia)

Prior-art discovery, competitor patent landscaping, and Australian IP research

Coverage: Australia; Australian patent applications and grants · Patent document, claims/abstract, applicant, inventor, classification, dates

national patent search databaseFree
PatentsOpen access

Canadian Intellectual Property Office Databases

Searching Canadian patent records and related IP databases

Coverage: Canada; Canadian patents and other IP records · Patent record, number, applicant/inventor, dates, classification, document

national intellectual-property databasesFree
PatentsPublic web

Google Patents

Competitor R&D, technology landscaping, prior-art and freedom-to-operate research

Coverage: Worldwide patent documents · Patent/document; publication and priority dates

Patent full-text search indexPrice not confirmed
PatentsOpen access

J-PlatPat

Japanese prior-art research, patent landscaping, and IP document retrieval

Coverage: Japan; Japanese and related patent, utility model, design, and trademark records · Document, application/publication, applicant, inventor, classification, legal/procedural data

Japanese patent and IP document search serviceFree
PatentsFree account / public tier

The Lens

Cross-jurisdiction patent landscaping and linking inventions to scholarly research

Coverage: Global; patent records from 95+ jurisdictions and scholarly works · Patent family/document, scholar/work, applicant, inventor, citations, classification

global patent and scholarly knowledge platformPrice not confirmed
PatentsPublic government data with account access

USPTO Open Data Portal / PatentsView

Technology landscape mapping, prior-art research, competitive IP and innovation signals

Coverage: United States patents; international fields vary · Patents, inventors, assignees, classifications and citations

Government patent bibliographic and text dataset/APIPrice not confirmed
Patentspublic search plus downloads

WIPO PATENTSCOPE

Prior-art research, competitor technology monitoring and patent-landscape analysis

Coverage: Worldwide; PCT and national collections · Patent document, application, inventor, applicant, classification and family

International patent search databasePrice not confirmed
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