Steve Hafif

I decided to work on Cypris after working in r&d & open innovation at Exelon. If you're a VC & want to know which startups are in your field, you can use Pitchbook or Crunchbase. But if you're in r&d and you want to know which technologies are in your vertical, you have to use a lawyer or complex IP software... that lag in data access is disruptive to innovation. Our goal is to make the...

Hello ProductHunt! My name is Steve Hafif, I'm the founder & CEO of Cypris . The Problem: The current patent landscape is severely flawed. Patents are bottle-necking industries, rather than catalyzing them. 97% of US patents, make less money than they cost to obtain. And inventors are facing great challenges in commercializing their technologies, due to limited resources and capabilities. Our...

Recently launched a pretty interesting tool. ipcypris.com It's a search engine and marketplace for patents. Search engine is specialized for investigating a company's or inventor's patents. Patent owners can claim their patents and convert them to listings to offer the technology for sale or license. The search/filter combination is pretty valuable for drilling down a company's patents. Try...