December

Export
When exporting the PDF documents of patents, the index excel file will contain hyperlinks to the PDF documents
Support language selection when exporting
Support exporting of full claims in txt format
Support exporting of China and INPADOC legal status
Patent View Page
Added comparison of INPADOC legal status under patent family tab
Added review and invalid data of Chinese patent under legal status tab
Landscape
Support selecting of specific landscape grids for refinement of analysis
Support cluster selection
Wildcards "?" and "*" are supported in stop-words of labels
Support exporting of comments in lists
Application number is supported in bulk search
Added Chinese design patents to Image Discovery
Added EP design patent data
PatSnap will retain your most recent search when you return to the field search screen, as long as you do not log out
When filtering and refining a set of results, PatSnap will retain your viewing and sorting preferences for that search
Added result number in the table view
Added citation and family member amounts as a field option in the table and standard views
Bug fix: Fixed an error that displayed “server is busy” on the landscape
Bug fix: Fixed an error that would not allow grouped analysis of Application/Publication Trend in the Analyze Patent module

November

Improved the speed of exporting documents
Landscape animation has been amended so that if one enters 2014 as the end date range, patents published in 2014 are included in the animation

Added NBER labels to the landscape
Optimised the landscape to support 5 cluster keywords, along with the ability to edit labelling and manually add labels

Added a CPC helper on the field search page
Added a legal status alert to email alerts, and optimised the original patent alert system
Bug fix: Failure to create a matrix analysis when the list is set to receive automatic updates
Launched animation feature for landscape
Ability to distinguish between read/unread patents in user lists
Search IPC fields within lists

Integrated with UserVoice to more easily capture feedback. The green question mark in the top right corner sends a support request within 2 clicks, and it is very easy to send a screenshot of your problem
Bug fix: The browser does not load patents with a very long description
Added Cooperative Classification data
Added a Cooperative Classification data field in the table view

Bug fix: Could not go directly to an export or analysis of a saved search, if the query was too long
Search within lists
Search custom fields within lists
Added a new view for lists
Added automatic update function to lists
Added a 'show all' tick box on the landscape to display up to 2000 patents at one time

Legal status data added for Chinese patents on results view page
Bug fix: Patent count inconsistency between search result and export result
Bug fix: Unable to generate analyses or landscapes if the search query was too long
Bug fix: Results list within an individual patent view was sometimes missing

Upgraded the search engine and added three new position operators:
$Wn: use this connector to find patents within n words of each other, for example: 'TTL:(data $W2 line)'
$PREn: use this connector to find patents in which the first word precedes the second by not more than n words, for example: 'TTL:(data $PRE2 line)'
$Ws: use the connector to find patents with search words that appear within the same sentence, for example: 'data $Ws line'
Bug fix: Fixed syncing problems between search results and other web pages
Bug fix: Some users lost permission to perform functions
Bug fix: Database selection did not work in the field search, when using IE8 browser
Bug fix: Assignee address field did not work in the field search
Launched the new user interface for the landscape
Email alerts can be sent to multiple recipients (including non-PatSnap users)
Added the 'Release log' to report version updates