Stay ahead, whatever the challenge using
Patent Solutions by Minesoft
All of the greatest, most renowned
inventions start with an idea. Patents are
often the first and only source of these
ideas, with over 80% of technological and
scientific information never published
elsewhere. Anyone with access to patent
data can improve upon, combine or invent
around the initial patented idea. Therefore,
companies around the world are protective
of the value in their own intellectual
property (IP) and realise the importance of
monitoring the IP of their competitors.
Minesoft is a world-renowned service
provider for the Intellectual Property
industry, to help companies harness the
knowledge found in patents, gain
competitive intelligence and build on the
ideas of others to drive innovation
worldwide.
This current era of knowledge-driven
economies has led to 3.17 million patents
filed worldwide in 2017 (World Intellectual
Property Organisation Indicators 2018), a
5.8% increase from 2016. IP professionals
face daily challenges due to the volume and
complexity of patent data currently
available. Therefore, having access to a
global, high-quality and up-to-date patent
database such as PatBase is essential.
PatBase’s family structure collates all
necessary information on one invention in
one place and reduces duplication,
boosting efficiency without losing accuracy.
With over 60 full text collections, including
non-Latin data, PatBase provides access to
ideas and innovations from key countries
around the world. PatBase makes it easier
to conduct a Freedom to Operate search.
With a range of innovative tools including
PatBase Thesaurus to craft a
comprehensive search strategy and
Advanced Highlighting to review large
numbers of documents, fast.
PatBase Analytics V2 (fully compatible with
PatBase Express) can be used to visualise
market trends and key competitors as well
as identify potential business partners and
licensing opportunities. The latest ground-
breaking addition of Citation Network,
provides a new way to interrogate your
result set, creating highly engaging and
visually stunning representations of
complex citation networks. There are a
range of features and settings that allow
users to manipulate and arrange the
networks so that they can be tailored to be
as insightful and analytically useful as
required.
Minesoft’s company ethos is to ensure the
products developed continue to assist
companies harness the worlds innovations.
This motivation led to the recent creation of
IP-Share. Store, review, rank, highlight and
organise patent documents and non-patent
literature in one central location. The ideal
solution to encourage collaboration and
share insights with clients and end-users.
In this coming year, Minesoft are excited to
soon be introducing a new, even more
powerful search engine for PatBase with a
significant increase in functionality and
speed.
Whether you have a practical problem to
solve, valuable IP you wish to keep track of
or competitors to monitor, Minesoft’s
intelligent and reliable solutions can help
you take the lead.
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