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