December
- Some optimization of search result page
- Legal status filter was separated to status filter and event filter
November
- Support grouping by family in Semantic search results
- Added more fields for export: Extended Family Members, Extended Family Member Count, Extended Family Members Cited By Count
- New search result page
- New email alert UI
- Added chemical compound highlight feature in NPL view page
- CPC updated to the latest version
- Family tree improvement: click box to highlight a patent and its related patents, etc.
- PDF download for US appeal data
- PDF download for EP reexamination data
- Support rotation for fulltext image in view page
October
- Added AU/CA/TW transfer data
- Improved claim tree (cover all English claims, not only US patents)
- Add EP reexamination data
- Keyword helper got obviously optimized
- Shared workspace can be continue shared to the third people
- Family tree improvement: added full screen model
- Family tree map is launched
- Support save "more like this" patents to Workspace
- Workspace small improvements: support ranking options in drop-down custom fields; keep patents ranking that used last time in each folder
- Analysis graphs font colour adjustment (darker and clearer for print and projector)
- LOC classification update to the latest version
September
- New module: Non-patent literature
August
- Launched Japan interface
- Name editor in advanced analysis support ranking alphabetically
- Visual search - 20% users are covered for trial
- Added 5 patent valuation metrics to patent view page
- Added more license types in legal search
- Support bulk moving folders in Workspace
- Custom fields can be used in overall product, support adding custom field values and comments to the patents out of Workspace
July
- Add SEP patents data
- Support download PDF fulltext of US litigation data
- Support exporting history
- Workspace - Improve table view (easier to find the column width can be dragged)
- Landscape - New litigation / license / high Value legend
- Add issue date as searchable field
- Workspace - Make import match rule the same as bulk search
- Workspace - Add access to create new folders in shared space
- Display top 50 values in matrix analysis
- UI change of Name Grouping
- Visual search beta version V0.3
- New field search beta version V0.3
- Landscape - Patent number trend shown on animation progress bar
- Landscape - Support creating data set for search results and tagging them
- Landscape - User can change the background theme of label
June
- Function buttons UI improvements on search result page
- Support language setting in Workspace, the same as search result page
- Support adding patents on family page to Workspace
- File wrapper link for US CN/EP/JP/KR/WO/CA
- Added GB legal status data
- Added CA legal status data
- Added Chinese patent oral hearing data
- Visual search beta version V0.2
- New field search beta version V0.2
- PatSnap Extended Family beta version
- Visual Search beta version
- New field search beta version
May
- Improved abstract thumbnail quality in exported excel
- Add current assignee to displayable fields in search result page setting
- Drag patents to folders in Workspace
- Added PatSnap Extended Family data, which is more complete and accurate than INPADOC family
- Added GB litigation data
- Added issue date and applicant fields on patent view page
- Added advanced search in refine column of Workspace
- Support creating email alert for shared Workspace
- Support analyzing based on refined patents in Workspace
- Support linking to patents on matrix analysis
April
- Display patent counts on left filter
- Simple search guider
- Add some searchable fields such as PCT entry date, please refer to search helper
- Users who have access to both Chemical version and Analytics can see Chemical entrance on Analytics
- Extend date analysis from recent 50 years to 100 years
- Read/unread patents on search result page
- Use https security protocol for Analytics
- Update patent valuation data
- Workspace - drag patents to folders
- Workspace - select all patents
- Workspace - filter patent fields and drop-down type custom fields
- Workspace - Detail control on sharing authority
- Landscape - dot view by default
- Display high valuation patents on citation map
- Some UI improvements
March
Image Discovery
- New Image Discovery with filter, improved search accuracy
Data
- Added Thailand patent data
- Added Canada original PDF (from 1980)
- Updated standardized assignee data, improved data quality
- Added Australia official legal status data
Search
- Added assignee transfer history time line after current assignee on patent view page
- Improve search UX - Keep query in search box when there is no result
Workspace
- Added family flag setting in Workspace
- Added folder management tool in setting, support bulk deleting folders
- Support analyzing date type custom field in Workspace
- Improve Workspace UX - drag folders
- Improve Workspace UX - fix header in table view
- Improve Workspace UX - highlight keywords in refine search
Analysis
- Support patent life analysis in custom analysis
- Support predicting the trend of application and publication
- Support grouping by jurisdictions in citation map
- Improve analysis UX - Added classification code explanation in the export of the classification analysis table
February
- Improve classification search design
- Add data of DE official legal status
- Add US reexamined invalid data
- Add sort by priority date
- Support add/read the comments and the customer filed on the patent view page of workspace
- Add new number type of customer filed
- Add create time and edit time on the description area of workspace patent view page
- Support move/copy patents between different workspaces
- Add new type of patent search on landscape — Tag Cloud
- Add new view of high valuation of patents
January
- Group and filter your results by the Type of Assignee i.e. Company, University, Government or Inventor
- Improved history – separated into areas like search, patent view, analysis etc, and you can also merge the historic queries just like you can with the saved searches
- Jump to the next highlighted word when viewing a patent
- Search the citation map
- Highlight self-citations on the citation map
- Expand the workspace to full screen
- Display the patent value in workspace
- New Chinese corporate tree data
- New Japanese litigation data
- On the landscape, click the keywords in the word clouds to then show the list of relevant patents
- New search fields i.e. search for all patents that cite a specific patent
- New fields on the custom analysis i.e. patent value, citations, family size
- View the matrix chart as a numeric table of results