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Ann Chapman, Minesoft , Co-Founder and Managing Director:
‘We Have Worked to Constantly Develop our Platforms to Enable
Professional Searchers and Business Executives to Quickly Gain the
Ability to Answer Business Critical Questions in the Timeliest Manner’
“If our clients have ideas about how we can further help them, we will do so. Even if the benefit is
focused on a particular vertical market segment.”
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nnovation is the linchpin for
every business in today’s
competitive industry. Patents
are granted for innovations across
all industries to provide incentives
and protection to firms by offering
them a monopolyon their invention
for a set period of time. Patents
are obligatorily published so that
details of the invention can be
recognised and built upon. This
accelerates the mutually beneficial
spread of knowledge. These original
inventions can be evolved within
the same industry or in some cases
aspects can be taken and applied
elsewhere. An excellent example of
a patent describing a technology
to solve one problem that can be
repurposed for an entirely different
scenario is a white, reflective
“We are developing a new Search
Engine that should be released
later this year and we will continue
working on it in the coming few
years to develop some neat new
functionality in areas like natural
language searching and semantics.”
coating that can be applied to
road surfaces, roofs or walkways
to combat rising temperatures
in cities. This technology was
originally developed to hide spy
planes from satellite infrared
camera technologies!
Minesoft is an innovative online
patent solutions provider offering
its products and services to national
patent offices, professional search
firms, patent attorney firms,
academic institutions and many
Fortune 500/FTSE 100 companies
around the world. Established
in 1996, Minesoft quickly gained
market traction due to its innovative
patent information products. Since
then the company has established
its offices in the UK, Germany, and
the USA – with additional agents
representing every corner of the
globe.
Ann Chapman,
Minesoft Co-founder
and Managing Director,
spoke exclusively to
The Silicon Review.
Below is an excerpt.
Rewind: Taking the Flight
Minesoft is a family-run business
started as an ideal way to combine
both Ann Chapman’s and her
husband Ophir’s skills. Her career
was blossoming in the online
publishing industry, managing and