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