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