Driving Innovation Forward
Driving innovation is central to the ethos of Minesoft, a patent solutions provider for the intellectual
property industry. With over 80% of the technological and scientific information available in patents
inaccessible anywhere else, ignoring patents as an information source at best delays innovation and
at worst, prevents it.
“What we do offers a benefit to society because studying the existing patent literature helps scientists and
engineers develop their best ideas,” says Ann Chapman, Minesoft Co-Founder. “Technologies of all kinds
are continually driven forward. New ideas and innovative solutions to technical problems are published in
patent documents every single week around the world, adding to the existing ‘State of the Art’”.
Minesoft’s flagship product PatBase enables users, including corporations such as Audi and Siemens,
to protect their designs by checking novelty against existing patents and to solve technical dilemmas by
studying patent texts, patent drawings and non-patent literature. Our Users can access and understand the
most up-to-date scientific research, new ideas and competitor information contained in patent documents
with a range of search and display functionalities, including text and diagrams, semantic searching,
translations and fully-incorporated PatBase Analytics.
PatBase Express offers a streamlined and easy-to-use interface encouraging a wide range of Users
to engage with patent information and identify opportunities for invention or licensing. Research and
Development Business Units benefit from in-depth analysis of technological development in their field of
expertise and identification of opportunities ripe for new product development and patenting activity. All this
can be discovered and visualised using PatBase Analytics.
Minesoft’s commitment to develop innovative products for the patent information market ensures
organisations are empowered to explore new technologies and exploit patent literature. This commitment
has resulted in Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and new product development, such as Minesoft’s version
of IET INSPEC (published by the Institute of Engineering & Technology in the UK). Access over 15 million
articles of peer-reviewed Engineering & Technology research literature abstracted and indexed by experts;
Minesoft INSPEC ensures easy navigation with time-saving search features.
Minesoft recently launched Chemical Explorer, a new text-mined resource for chemical patent
searching. With over 10 million chemical names and entities disclosed in English, French, German,
Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Extract patent documents quickly by drawing chemical structures or
searching the text.
Over the past three decades, patent filings have tripled! Sifting
through a mountain of science and technology data is daunting,
hence, Minesoft is proving to be an essential resource for
innovative companies and universities to help harness the
power of patents.
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