December
- Single sign-on (SSO) across all PatSnap products through revamped Homepage
- Standardized Assignee: New process with higher matching quality
- Landscape: Increased limit for the number of documents that can be analyzed to 1000
October
- Patent View: Standalone images from CN/WO full-text are now added to the Overview and Dual View tab
- Brand new interface for Citation Analysis
- Citation Analysis: Patent Family members can now be displayed within the citation map
- Export: Added field export support for Locarno (LOC) and Cooperative Classification (CPC)
- Added option to also search under Current Assignee when doing an Assignee search
- Landscape: Added option to display Grant data and markers on the map
- Up to 10 proximity operators ($Wn, $Ws, $PRE) can now be used in series for a search string
- Search strings combined with the OR logic operator can now be used bi-directionally with the proximity operators ($Wn, $Ws, $PRE)
September
- Bulk search can now perform Smart Matching for an expanded permutations of patent number formats
- Display language for the Abstract data can now be toggled on the Patent View page (including English machine translation)
- Assignee field can now support up to 100 assignees
- Resolved the problem of unresponsive page views in the Patent Family tab when an exceedingly high number of patent families are displayed
- Patents that are selected and checked in Lists can now be copied and moved across different pages of the same folder
- Legal Search fields can now be combined with general Patent Search fields when constructing a search
- IPC and LOC definitions will be displayed when the corresponding classification number is moused over in the filter bars on the left hand screen in Search Results
- Insights button is now available in the Search Results page to provide a one-click access to its corresponding Insights dashboard
- Licensing markers can now be displayed on the 3D Landscape map to flag patents with licensing information
- Resolved a bug preventing a user from changing the cluster colors of their 3D Landscape map
August
- List: Added option of sorting patents by Latest Application or Latest Publication
- List: The order of patents can now be rearranged manually
- List: Patents across different pages in each individual folder can now be selected concurrently and exported thereafter
- List: Custom Field now supports mass tagging
- History: Individual history items can now be deleted
- Export: Added option to disable email notification when performing an export operation
- Landscape: Custom Fields created in List are now supported in Landscape
- Landscape: Litigation markers are now displayed on the map to flag patents with litigation information
July
Search
- Added Legal Search which covers Patent Assignment (US & CN only), Patent Litigation (US only), Patent Licensing and Patent Re-examination & Invalidation (CN only)
- Added Keyword Helper in Field Search
- Added new fields (FI, F-TERM, Agency) in Field Search
- Order of countries to be selected as the patent family representative in Search Results can now be set
Data
- Added patent licensing data on Patent View page
- Updated IPC to the latest version
- Added Russian patent fulltext
General
- New feature: Name Grouping allows the grouping of different assignee names into personalized Assignee Groups which applies throughout your PatSnap experience
- Added more types of Email Alerts: Expired patents, Litigation updates, and Licensing updates
June
- Added automatic highlight feature on search result page and patent view page (your first 5 keywords will be automatically highlighted in the full patent text)
- Search results can be ranked by cited by count or INPADOC family count
- Added corporate tree to help search assignee
May
- Added the function of uploading user’s own image to search for similar images in the Image Discovery module
- Added Keyword search to the Chemical Search module
- Revamped Login page
- Revamped Data Coverage page with a finer breakdown of coverage details
- Improved UI for Advanced Analysis module
- Range of patents to be exported from User Lists can now be modified
Patent View Page
- Added "More Like This" function
- Added US litigation data under Legal Information
- Added External Link to official patent listing on respective patent offices’ database
- Improved Highlighter function
Email Alert
- Added more channels to create Email Alert i.e. from User List, Custom Database etc.
- User can now create email alert to track if anyone has left or edited comments on their User List.
- User can now track Citation and Patent Family changes to patents on their User List.
Search Results
- Simplified the Legal Status filter to “Active” and “Inactive” statuses
- Improved the UI of Table View
April
- Added Chemical Search
User List
- Bug fix: The order for the patents in User List is now set according to the time they were added, in descending order
- Patents added to User List will follow the user's search setting preferences
- Matrix Analysis can now be performed on the Shared folders in User List
- Bug fix: User List search box style in Firefox browser
- Bug fix: Fixed the error message when creating a new User List folder and the folder name is empty
- Bug fix: Fixed the error message when performing quick analysis on folder that activates automatic update
Matrix Analysis
- Bug fix: Date/year error when analyzing date
- Bug fix: Display issue at IE10 browser when X/Y axis value name is too long
Email Alert
- Bug fix: Email Alert update will now be sent according to the database setting
- Added re-try logic to send email alert until the Email Alert is successfully sent out
- Bug fix: Send out time error when re-activating the Email Alert
- Email Alert will now be sent out even though there is no new patents being updated
Patent View
- Bug fix: Keyword Highlight tool not working sporadically
- Bug fix: When navigating from User List to Patent View, the Quick Navigation list on the right is not following the order from User List
- Bug fix: The read/unread statuses of patents
- Bug fix: Citation Map does not display properly on high resolution screen
Search Results
- Charts in the Quick Analysis view can now be clicked to refine and filter search results
- Bug fix: When "Back" from Patent View is clicked, user will now be directed back to the corresponding page on the Search Results instead of always back to the first page
Landscape
- Optimized the labelling to show more labels
- Optimized the speed for generating landscape animated videos
Others
- Bug fix: Error in IE8 when uploading thumbnail pictures
- Bug fix: When performing analysis on Custom Database, the analysis results are not accurate
- Bug fix: User gets kicked out from the system
February
- Added the ability to export patent family from patent view page
- Added the ability to extract Chinese labels in landscape
- Added standardized assignee filter on search result page
- Added Japan design patent data
- Improved the quality of standardized assignee data
- Improved the quality of citation data
- Added the ability to filter granted/invalid/expired/published legal status for EP, DE, and US granted patents
- Bug fix: Unable to edit the query when automatic update is generated from lists
- Bug fix: Legal status of some patents can not be displayed under standard view of search result page
- Added the ability to export landscape animation
- Added the ablilty to analyze text in landscape
- When there are more than 30 records in an email alert, the first 1000 patents will be attached as an excel file to the email
- Added current assignee field on patent view page
- Bug fix: Some content in email alert was not correct