RPX Empower is used by corporate IP departments, patent law practices, and licensing and finance teams to assess patent risk, evaluate portfolios, and support licensing and litigation decisions.

Key features and functions include:

Entity Intelligence
Profiles the histories, relationships, and litigation and acquisition activity of non-practicing entities and third-party litigation funders. Certain litigation funder data is available only to RPX members.

Normalized Entity Data
Normalizes corporate hierarchies relevant to IP assets and litigation using AI tools and human review. Judges, law firms, attorneys, expert witnesses, examiners, and inventors are also standardized across sources.

Litigation Campaigns
Groups related patent cases into unified views with cross-jurisdiction alerts and detailed assessments.

Litigation Data
Covers US district court, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, International Trade Commission, and Federal Circuit proceedings, as well as Unified Patent Court and Chinese patent litigation. Cases are tracked and analyzed by legal professionals.

Cross-Attribute Search and Claim-Level Outcomes
Searches across litigation, patent, party, and standard essential patent attributes. Results include term definitions from claim constructions and claim-level outcomes from validity challenges.

Litigation Prior Art
Provides prior art references extracted from litigation proceedings, including Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions and district court validity challenges.

Patent Data
Includes worldwide patent full text, US patent assignments and reexaminations, prosecution data, citations, and technical standards, with key attributes extracted and standardized.

Patent Assignment Analytics
Visualizes and tracks recorded patent transfers, including those to and from non-practicing entities, with news, periodic reports, and related litigation activity.

Predicted Litigation Risk and Renewal Scores
Generates machine learning-based scores to help assess litigation risk and support portfolio renewal decisions.

Semantic Search
Supports patent searching using large language models.

Dynamic Collections
Maintains AI-generated landscapes of patents in specific technology areas for ongoing monitoring of competitor, non-practicing entity, and standard essential patent activity.

Standards Ecosystem
Integrates standard declarations, contributions, patent pools, and standard documents for cellular, Wi-Fi, audio and video format, and wireless charging standards. LLM-driven essentiality analysis mapping patent claims to standards is currently in beta.

License Manager
Allows subscribers to manage patent rights granted or received and to analyze private license data alongside public information on related cases, patents, and parties.

Secondary Market Data
Identifies patents involved in transactions, including publicly disclosed licenses and portfolios offered for sale.

Alerts and Research Content
Monitors parties for new litigation, case updates, patent assignments, and subsidiary activity. In-house experts publish hand-analyzed decisions, entity profiles, news articles, and reports.

Private Data Security
Keeps each company’s private data, including portfolios, deals, notes, and annotations, siloed and encrypted. Usage activity is aggregated and anonymized, and private subscriber data is not used to train AI models.