Patent Integration Service Large-Scale Upgrades
We made a major upgrade to our patent information service, Patent Integration.
Details are as follows.
Outline of the contents of the renovation
1. Provide patent landscape capabilities
Visualize a large search set up to 50,000, and visualize each company's positioning, etc.
It is available to all users of the usual business and academic licenses at no extra cost.
We plan to expand the range of documents to include how to use them.
2. Increased number of downloads
The number of downloads has increased to 10,000 due to server expansion. You can download a larger data set.
3. database service termination that stopped updating
The database services of the official gazettes for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland and South Korea have been discontinued.
Going forward, we will focus on expanding and improving the functionality of our limited development resources in Japan, the United States, Europe, and China, where there is high demand for data from users.
4. Other detailed specification changes
4.3. Control of Applicant and Right Holder Information
Personal fields such as the applicant, right holder, and inventor fields are all unified into "control field". For foreigners, all names are defined as "Uppercase" and are controlled by names with commas, periods, etc. removed.
In the past, there were multiple fields in a single field, such as uncontrolled and controlled, but many pointed out that it was difficult to understand, so we made the specification simple.
4.4. Data integration of published and registered publications
The data of the published gazettes and registered gazettes with the same application number were integrated. Specifically, "Title of the invention", "Summary", and "scope of claims" in the search field are hits for a search term contained in one of the published gazettes and the registered gazettes.
On the other hand, only the registered publication (a more recent bulletin) data is included in "Detailed description of the invention". In general, there are many cases where there is no significant change in the published and registered publications, and I do not think there will be any substantial impact, but the specification will be changed.