IFI CLAIMS Patent Services has been dedicated to enriching and curating patent information since the 1950s. IFI CLAIMS specializes in annotating and classifying patent and scientific documentation using expert curators and intelligent technologies. IFI continues the tradition of enabling access to high quality patent data with CLAIMS Direct -- an open data platform and web service providing access to the IFI CLAIMS Global Patent database. CLAIMS Direct can be accessed via web services, installed in the cloud or in a local data center. It can allow the user complete control of their own patent database. The robust API allows easy integration of a comprehensive database into 3rd party applications.