December

• The bulk search is getting an upgrade
• On the analysis dashboard, you will be able to customize which graphs are on the gridded overview
• On the citation map, you will be able to rank the citation list by the first assignee and the first IPC
• On the citation map, the IPCs and Assignees will be automatically coloured
• When setting up an email alert, machine translation will be displayed for non-English patents
• In workspaces, the standard and thumbnail results view are added
• In workspaces, the dropdown custom field value can be edited
• In the family view within a patent, you can switch between simple and INPADOC family
• Added US and Chinese pledge data
• Added Korean official legal status
• On the search results page, the ‘copy clipboard’ button will not require flash player, which is important for internet explorer users
• Accelerate speed of downloading Landscape animation
• Added Simple Search
• Added Expand Search
• Insights icon after the standardized assignee in the patent view
• Display assignee names on the citation map, and colour them
• Show IPC and colour by IPC on citation map
• Rank patents on citation map
• Export citation map
• Family and document grouping in workspace settings
• Search European patents for assignment transfers
• Analyze normal and custom fields in the matrix analysis
• Add DE/JP official legal status
• Add F-TERM (for IP patents only) to classification search
• Add the third level of LOC classification search
• Support delete patents from workspace in view page

November

• New Landscape
• Search - New Classification search library for IPC, CPC, LOC and FI
• Search - Set results page to be in English
• Search - Add new field TAC to search with in title/abstract/claims
• Search - Add "NOT" connector for merging saved query
• Search - Semantic search support Chinese
• Analysis - Advanced analysis improvement: move charts menu to the left
• Patent view - Translate claims with one button
• Patent view - Support keyword highlight in claim tree
• Patent view - More information and new layout for US/TW official legal status data
• Citations - New citation map
• Workspaces - Display a red dot on the folders which have new patents updated in Workspace
• Workspace - Support analysing custom fields in Workspace analysis
• Alerts - Use free view page for email alert, so user can quickly read patents without login
• Exports - Support selecting fields for excel when exporting PDF
• Exports - Add simple legal status to exportable fields
• Other - Update images in Features information page

October

• New search fields: Main IPC, Independent claim (US only)
• Support setting default page after login
• Support setting time zone
• Highlight a designated country within a family on search result page
• Automatically send an email when sharing a workspace
• Improve the user experience of adding patents from search result page to workspace
• Improve user experience of sharing workspace
• Add the table view type on workspace homepage
• Add TW official legal status
• Add PCT fields, division data, and DOCDB normalized assignee name on patent view page
• Coverage of legal status filter is extended to 12 authorities
• Added more searchable fields
• Coverage of Image discovery is extended to 25 authorities
• Support exporting more fields
• Export claims in RTF, XML format
• Add stack charts to 2-D analysis
• Support changing colour of series field of 2-D charts
• Workspace: support adjusting column width by dragging
• Workspace: Add 2000 patents from search result page at one time
• Workspace: Support bulk editing custom fields in shared space

September

• Improve UI of search result page, add more filterable fields such as CPC, UPC, patent value
• Support import custom fields and comments from excel to Workspace
• Support claim tree view type for US/EP patents
• Add TW litigation data
• Add EP license data
• Add more searchable fields such as assignee country, authority, patent type, patent value, etc.
• Automatically recommend more labels to Landscape
• Support adding patents from Landscape to Workspace
• Added a sample in My Landscape

Brand new Workspace

• Support ranking by custom fields
• Support moving/copying folders between spaces
• Support refine search within each custom field
• Support setting display/hide each custom field
• Support replying comments
• Seamlessly integrate with new advanced analysis and Insights

August

• English Semantic Search
• Patent value can be ranked and displayed in search result page
• Support searching assignee, standardized assignee and current assignee at the same time
• Added effective date field under assignee transfer search
• Added EP file wrapper link
• Landscape Chinese interface

Advanced Analysis

• Entrance is changed to analysis view, UI is improved
• Added more fields available for customized analysis
• Added more switchable charts
• Data filter is supported in analysis
• Merged names and customized names can be saved
• Description of classification codes is provided in analysis

July

• Display IPC description on Landscape
• Support searching saved Landscape
• CA, CH, KR, FR, GB, JP are supported to be filtered by simple legal status

June

• Landscape: support sharing to other PatSnap users
• Landscape: support hiding expired patents
• Landscape: support clicking label to edit them
• Landscape: groups change is included in animation
• Email Alerts can now be set up to send Daily
• Landscape: Patent Assignee name shown when hovering over patent dots
• Landscape: Labels on Landscape have now been optimised to support phrases, rather than just words.
• Landscape: Users are now notified when Landscapes are ready for viewing.

May

• Switch between AND and NOT operators to refine searches
• Search result setting: French and German stemming
• Easy patent type filtering (Application, Grant, Design, Utility)
• Chinese licensing data added
• Colour highlighting of Publication Years
• Addition of the ‘Select All Grids’ button
• File Wrapper tab that has been added to the Legal Information section of US patents (60% completed, still updating)
• Information on patent litigation deals has now been added for litigated Chinese patents
• The Landscape homepage has been rejuvenated to provide a catalogue of your previously saved Landscapes
• When clicking on grids in Landscape, the list of patents selected are ranked based on their PatSnap monetary valuations
• When clicking on individual patents and groups on Citation Analysis, you will be able to illustrate your analysis by tagging these citations and generations with your chosen colours
• Patent information can now be exported straight from Citation Analysis

April

• Landscape - Patents from selected grids can be added directly into a user’s List
• Landscape - Patent value is displayed for each patent selected
• Landscape / Lists - Custom Fields are retained when a second Landscape is generated from selected grids
• Citation Analysis - Snapshot button added to capture screen-shot of citation map
• Citation Analysis - Patent value is displayed for each patent selected
• Command Search - List of Searchable Fields now matches those available under Field Search
• List - Increased the upper limit of patents that can be selected across different pages to 400
• Added subscription details on Start Date and End Date to the Welcome e-mail
• Patent View - Added patent’s Value (USD) under Overview tab
• Citation Analysis – Patents with Licensing/Litigation information are indicated on the map by their respective icons
• Export - Added a new format for PDF
• Export – Added translation for Bibliography for PDF

March

• New design for our Welcome e-mail to newly registered users
• License/Litigation icon are now shown on Patent Family/Cites/Cited by/More like this/List page
• Analysis - Increased selectable items from 50 to 100 for top IPC/UPC/LOC graphs
• Analysis - Added 2 new graphs for CPC
• Analysis - Added option to display number values on a graph and export the graph with the numbers displayed
• Added a link to Search Helper on Field Search & Command Search page
• Lists - Custom fields and Comments can now be migrated together when moving/copying patents to another folder
• Lists - Added more fields available for customizing display columns: Legal Status, Cited by counts, INPADOC family members
• Lists - Added more fields for refining a search
• Export - Custom Fields export can now be saved as an export template
• Export - Added machine translated English fields for Title/Abstract/Assignee/Standardized Assignee
• Added patent types, legal status and authority distribution graphs to advanced analysis- Added support for selection of patents across different pages in Search Results before adding to List or Export
• Analyze Patent: Added Patent Type, Legal Status and Authority Distribution
• Analyze Patent: Sub-classification level analysis is now supported under Technical Classification
• Analyze Patent: Fixed the truncation of X-axis labels
• Patent View: Patent Family members are now sorted alphabetically by their country code

February

• Export: PDF file names can now be customized
• Image Search: Major improvement to image recognition accuracy
• Chemical Search: Major improvement to image recognition of Structure Search

January

• Patent View: Users can now create and share publicly accessible URL of any Patent View page
• Added support for merging Inventor names in Advanced Analysis
• Chemical Search: Enhanced the accuracy of Keyword Search