AniFive Completes Merger With WizDomain and TechDNA, Launches AI-Based IP and R&D Platform Era

AniFive has completed its merger with WizDomain and TechDNA and is moving in earnest to build an AI-based integrated IP and R&D platform. On the 31st, AniFive held the "AniFive, WizDomain IP Business M&A Integrated Launch Ceremony" and said it would lead the era of AI-based IP and R&D platforms.

The integration was pursued as a strategic M&A. It combines AniFive's IP and R&D management capabilities with WizDomain's global patent search, analysis and data capabilities, as well as TechDNA's R&D analysis and technology commercialization capabilities.

After the integration, the company will use a patent and technology database of 187 million records as infrastructure. AniFive described the database as a core infrastructure for strengthening its AI service competitiveness.

AniFive also operates its own AI LAB. The AI LAB has 43 AI specialists, including 6 doctoral-level researchers.

AniFive also has 12 core AI technologies. These include patent valuation, a patent classification language model, patent search embeddings, LLM-based prior-art searches, GNN-based patent litigation prediction, technology demand-supply matching, and patent translation.

AniFive expressed expectations for the merger. It said it expects the combination of vast global patent data and its own AI technologies into one organization and platform to speed up the practical application of AI technology in industry.

Against this backdrop, AniFive presented a single workflow connecting 'R&D→IP→commercialization' as the core of its business model. In the R&D stage, it supports research topic discovery, technology analysis, market analysis, research management and electronic lab notebooks, while in the IP stage it links patent search and analysis, filing, management and valuation.

It also plans to build an end-to-end system in the commercialization stage by connecting technology demand-supply matching, technology transfer and global expansion services. The company said the idea is to unify the entire process from R&D through IP and commercialization.

AniFive also said it will shift from its existing on-premises, deployment-based software-centric structure to an AI-based agentic service platform. In this process, it plans to use multi-agent systems and RAG to evolve into a structure that automatically connects data, AI models and services suited to users' work objectives.

The company is pushing a phased AI-based transition of its existing core services while also advancing plans to enhance existing services and sequentially expand new ones. Existing services targeted for enhancement are IP-Brain, e-Brain and FOCUST. New service items presented include AI R&D discovery analysis, AI electronic lab notebooks, technology report generation, AI-based IP management, global patent intelligence, and AI corporate and technology valuation.

AniFive CEO Kim Ki-jong cited ownership of 187 million patent and technology data records and its own AI capabilities as the foundation for this transition. He also said the company will pursue services that go beyond patent search and management, and broaden its support scope to include R&D strategy, IP value creation and technology commercialization decision-making.

Kim Ki-jong, CEO of AniFive, set the creation of a new standard for Korea's IP service industry as a goal and emphasized a leap forward as a "rule maker." He also laid out goals of competing in the global IP and R&D services market and growing into a platform company.

Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406272

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