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
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
