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PatBase Enhancements October 2011Minesoft and RWS Group are pleased to bring you a new release of PatBase this Autumn.Read on to find out about the new enhancements, many of which are the result of valuable feedback from our users.

We are also delighted to announce that Minesoft is celebrating its 15th Year Anniversary this year. We would like to thank all our clients and partners for their fantastic support since we started out in September 1996. We look forward to working with you for many years to come.

Summary Table of Enhancements

Enhancement PageNew Data Coverage 2New Field Qualifiers and Commands 3Analysis Enhancements 4-5New Folder Shortcuts 5Custom User Field improvement 6Search Machine Translated Full Text for Japan & China 7New Hits View 8Enhancements to Alerts 9

NEW Data Coverage in PatBaseWe are pleased to highlight the following Coverage enhancements, all added to PatBase in the last 12 months with the aim of giving you access to the most comprehensive patent data in a single database.

Recently added data

• Full-text for Scandinavia and other European countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain)• Full-text for Indian applications • Japanese citations• Taiwanese non-Latin Titles, Abstracts, Patent Assignees and Inventors. • Chinese Full Text and Machine Translations of Full- Text• Japanese Machine Translations of Full-Text• DOCDB new states added: Georgia, Hungary, Republic of Serbia, Colombia• German Machine Translations of Full Text• French Machine Translations of Full-Text • Full-Text and Biblio for Indian grants

Current projectsWe are currently in the process of adding:• Brazilian Full Text• Further Taiwanese non-Latin Full-Text additions - 2009 and 2010• Australian Full Text

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NEW Field Qualifiers and CommandsSame document field qualifiersThe following commands allow you to limit your keyword searches to within the same publication. This means that when you search two terms using ‘and’ or ‘not’, the keywords will need to be present in at least one full text within the family, allowing you to narrow your search if required.

List of available ‘same document’ commands:Command Description ExampleSFT search within the Full Text of the

same publication within a familySFT=(vacuum and cyclon*)

SCL search within the Claims of the same publication within a family

(SCL=(boot) not (ski* or snow))

SCLCC search within the Claims of the same publication within a family for a specified country

SCLUS=(drink or beverage)

SDSC search within the Descriptions of the same publication within a fam-ily

SDSC= (golf and ball)

SFTCC search within the Full Text of the same publication within a family for a specified country

SFTEP=(laser and imprint)

STA search within the Title & Abstract of the same publication within a family

(STA=(staple*) not (surgery or surgical))

STAC search within the Title, Abstract & Claims of the same publication within a family

STAC=(ski and boot)

Same paragraph field qualifier: SP=

This allows your search to be limited to within the same Paragraph of the same publication within a family. E.g. ((SP=(plastic or metal)) not wood)NB: depending on the quality of the Full Text from the original source, paragraph delimiters maynot always be precise.

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Visual Explorer comes to PatBaseThe dynamic Clustering and Visualisation tool – Visual Explorer – is now available in PatBase.Identify trends in keyword, assignees and IPCs with a choice of interactive visualisations that break down the data in a clear, pictorial way.Once you click on a cluster of interest to browse through relevant records, you can add all records from that cluster to your search history to re-analyse or to add to a folder.Look out for the Visual Explorer icon at the top of the search results page, or access it directly from your search history page under the ‘more’ options.

Keyword Visualisation in Visual Explorer4

New fields added to Snapshot The Snapshot analysis tool now offers a breakdown of Keywords and Citations from your results set.View a Citations timeline graph to see the citations history, or choose to view the most frequently occurring Keyword terms with the integrated Visualisation options.

Citations Timeline graph in Snapshot

Folder ShortcutsYou can now have up to 5 default folders available via shortcuts at one time during a search session – allowing you to assign a record to multiple folders with just one click.This new feature enables you to use folders to assign records by feature, project or any other relevant tags that relate to the current search.Folders can be new, existing or even shared folders set up under your User ID. Records already present in the folder will be checked.To watch the short video showing how they work please click here.

Custom User Fields: New option to bulk-classify recordsPatBase account Administrators can set up internal Custom User Fields in their Settings to apply company-specific criteria to PatBase records e.g. product categories, invention descriptors, estimated expiry date or comments. Users (depending on access rights granted by administrators) can view and assign values to these fields, which can be searched together with standard PatBase fields, using the Custom User Fields search form.This new time-saving feature allows PatBase administrators to assign up to 250 records from a results set to a particular field in bulk.Go to ‘more’ on the search history page and ‘assign custom user fields’ to tag all the records from that search.

Assign custom user fields to all records from a search step

For more information about or assistance with Custom User Fields, please contact the Helpdesk on +44(0)20 8404 0655 or support@minesoft.com

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Search Machine Translated Full TextMachine translated Full Text has now been added for China and Japan allowing you to search the text using English keywords.Use the non-Latin search form to search (in English) the machine translated Full Text – enabling you to pick up important Asian records you may otherwise miss.

Search Machine translated non-Latin full text from the non-Latin search form

When viewing non-Latin families in the Full Text view, the new machine translations for Japan and China are now displayed side-by-side with the original non-Latin text for easy review.

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View original non-latin text and English translation side by side

‘Hits’ ViewThe new ‘Hits’ display format allows you to view Full Text records ordered by the publications that retrieve the most hits for a given keyword search or highlighting scheme.This will enable you to browse through results at a faster rate, one family at a time, with the most relevant pub-lications appearing first to scan through section by section with the aid of the hit analysis and keyword visuali-sation circle.This new display format is very useful for scanning results to find Keywords in Context.

Browse through the most relevant families one by one aided by Keyword Visualisation Wheel and Hit Analysis

Go to ‘Hits’ next to ‘Browse’ on the search history page to open the Hit View, or switch to Hits from the display format dropdown on the search results page.

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Enhancements to AlertsOption to not receive alert emails with zero resultsIf you would rather only be alerted when your alert has returned some results, you can now choose to opt not to receive alert emails with 0 results, by going to the Alert Management screen.Option to add an email header to alert emailsPatBase Alert owners can choose to add text (a comment/note) to alert emails – an ideal way to communicate important information to alert recipients. Each alert can have its own header. Add your comment when you create your alert – or to add text to an existing alert, go to the Edit page

Add your note when creating or editing a PatBase alert

If you have any feedback or questions about these enhancements, please do not hesitate to con-tact our Helpdesk on +44(0)208 404 0652 or support@minesoft.com.

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