December

• Translated searchable machine descriptions
• Improved Full Images view in search result page
• Improved search result page experience: customise left-hand filter display, jump to specific page number
• Add Advanced Search fields: Legal Status, Legal Event, Simple Legal Status, Cited Patent, Count of Original Assignees, Count of Current Assignees, Page Count, Substantive Examination Date, Examination Time, PCT Application Number, PCT Publication Number
• Add search result filters: Current Assignee Count, First Inventor, First Current Assignee, Issue Year, Main IPC, Family Country Presence
• Support searching OCR full text of AU/CA/GB/FR patents
• Support patent copying for Workspace Reader Licenses

November

• Family Expansion option to expand results to include all family members
• Stemming update to new stemming logic
• Improved search results highlighter (in line with new stemming logic)
• Patent View update: streamlined column view, new design, clearer location of custom fields, display legal status and event labels, increased thumbnail dimensions, saved translation preferences
• Image search improvements: support exporting and save to Workspace of results. Add 14 new searchable jurisdiction
• Remove Standardized Inventor field
• Improved the accuracy of First Invention Alert

October

• Numbered paragraphs in CN patent description
• Link patent images to figure numbers in CN patent description
• Improve Combine Search by adding edit and delete option for saved queries
• Re-classification of European design patents under ‘EU’ authority
• Add citation category in patent view citation page (e.g. x, y, a citations) and definitions

September

• Added search fields for grouped assignee and full text(title/abstract/claims/description)
• Updated patent value data

August

Smart Search Improvements

• Addition of technology keyword suggestions
• Improved quality of error detection to show exact location
• Improved design

Image Search upgrade

• All design patent images indexed and searchable
• Addition of image cutting tool
• View historic image searches

Legal search improvements

• Improved design
• Litigation page: add TW, CA, FR, AU, ES authorities
• Re-examination & Invalidation page: add EP authority, add Legal Ground search field

Proximity search Improvements

• Support nested query searching
• Improve distance calculation

Workspace patent import improvements

• Option to import latest or earliest document for multiple PN matches
• Option to add new undetected custom fields
• Option to import all number matches if multiple detected
• Option to replace annotation conflicts
• More choices of number separation symbols

Other updates

• Sub-fields description for EP and CN patents
• Updated Search Helper
• Improved full text and PDF data for EP A4 Kind Code patents
• Add legal status and estimated expiry date for US provisional patents

July

• Redesign of navigation header and account drop-down menu
• Redesign of Advanced Search (and merged Classic search under ‘Saved templates’ drop-down menu)
• Redesign of Search Result page
• Rank patents by Application and Publication number in Workspaces
• Legal search improvements: Add damages amount (and currency unit) and docket information to US and CN litigation details page. Add docket information to US review Invalidation (PTAB) details page
• Improvement on name searching when create assignee group
• Smart Image quality improvements
• Support foreign patent number recognition and conversion in Bulk Search function

June

• Workspace performance improvements (Upgrade request) Support increase in Workspace folder capacity to 100,000 patents
• IPC update to 2019 version
• Legal status filter for patents from Hong Kong and China

May

• Launched Smart Image in patent view, automatically recognize tags on image (Support English patent only in this version)
• Optimized the relevancy ranking of search result
• Added official legal data for Macau
• Added export fields: Issue date, Authority

April

• Added Chinese keyword recommend feature to smart search
• Updated CPC to 2019 version
• We have added new legal status (Restoration (code:21), Ceased (code:22), P-Revoked (code:23)), which may impact your existing queries saved in Workspace, Saved Searches, or Email Alert. If you have queries contain "LEGAL_STATUS:(3)", you'd better change it to "LEGAL_STATUS:(3 or 21 or 23)".

March

• Real-time indexing of Grouped Assignee names
• Recycle bin for Workspaces. Option to recover deleted patents, folders, and Workspaces
• Links for citation non-patent references to literature details, where available

February

• Optimized the comprehensiveness when search with wildcard
• Added more filters: Count of cites patents, Count of cited by patents, Count of extended family members

January

Search

• Multi-line command search which supports dynamically merging search records
• Support exclusion in left filter
• Company tree shows Chinese with English name
• Support English and Chinese mixed search in Semantic search
• Add Industrial classification for national economic activities (CN) data and support filtering and analysis
• Legal status and event filtering are more granular
• Image search experience optimization

Read

• Structured display description
• Add citation source data for part of EP and CN patents
• Support switching family references/cited patents in patent view
• Support display full text translation in dual view
• Display legal status tags in family patent list of view page

Cooperation

• Workspace supports filtering unlabelled patents

Others

• Optimization on account logout logic
• New homepage
• Optimize on Chinese Semantic Search
• Added searchable field - Claim machine translation
• Added searchable field - All assignees field that contain 5 kinds of assignee and standardized assignee
• Support embedded table in description for US patents
• Added more filter items to legal status and legal events
• Added description on simple legal status and legal status filter items
• Upgrade analyzable field items on 2D analysis
• Added EP/CN Award data on view page
• Added official legal status for EM patents