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