About the author

Lucas von Reuss

Lucas von Reuss is the Founder and CEO of Quant IP, a Munich-based company specializing in patent data and innovation analytics. Before moving into patent analytics, he spent 12 years as a financial journalist, giving him a deep understanding of how investors evaluate companies, markets, and future growth. At Quant IP, he focuses on turning global patent information into actionable insights for investors, financial institutions, and businesses — from identifying emerging technologies and innovation leaders to assessing the strength and strategic value of intellectual property. His work sits at the intersection of technology, patents, and capital markets, with a particular focus on using innovation data in investment research, lending, sustainability analysis, and corporate strategy. Lucas regularly contributes his perspective on innovation and patent-driven investing through industry interviews, podcasts, and financial media.

Articles from Lucas von Reuss

Case study

Boeing said innovation 145 times in one annual report

Stated commitment to innovation is cheap. What the filing record showed over the same years.

Explainer

What patent data cannot tell you

The honest limits. Sectors that do not file, and the questions this data will never answer.

Research

A EUR 767m patent valuation, and five inventions

When the portfolio described in the announcement is not the one you find in the register.

Product

Citations as a proxy for technical influence

Later inventions reference earlier ones. What that does and does not say about importance.

Research

Reading a patent family without reading the patent

You rarely need the claims. Structure, timing and coverage carry most of the signal.

Explainer

Do innovative companies outperform? 25 years of evidence

Full methodology and results. Download the report, which requires an email address.

Product

Thematic clusters: mapping a technology to its lifecycle

Emerging, accelerating, maturing, declining. Which stage a theme sits in changes what it is worth.

Explainer

Aerospace ranked by invention growth, not market cap

Reorder a familiar sector by filing momentum and a different set of names comes to the top.

Explainer

Why ESG ratings disagree, and what green patents count instead

Green technology has a public classification standard, so at least the count can be reproduced.