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