Aurigin Systems

Aurigin Systems, Inc. was an intellectual-property management software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Cupertino, California. It built online patent and trademark information services and business-automation software for intellectual-asset management, raising roughly $54M in venture funding (investors included Battery Ventures) over its lifetime. The company operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection before substantially all of its assets were acquired by Information Holdings Inc. in May 2002. It is defunct, has no surviving website, developer portal, or public API, and was surfaced only as a historical portfolio lead from a Battery Ventures scrape.

Aurigin Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, and Software.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Aurigin Systems
description: Aurigin Systems, Inc. was an intellectual-property management software company founded in 1992 and headquartered
  in Cupertino, California. It built online patent and trademark information services and business-automation software for
  intellectual-asset management, raising roughly $54M in venture funding (investors included Battery Ventures) over its lifetime.
  The company operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection before substantially all of its assets were acquired by Information
  Holdings Inc. in May 2002. It is defunct, has no surviving website, developer portal, or public API, and was surfaced only
  as a historical portfolio lead from a Battery Ventures scrape.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
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- Patents
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x-enrichment:
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