Leading patent solutions provider, Minesoft, has announced the launch of a new citation analysis module within the PatBase Analytics V2 platform, offering easy-to-understand visualisations that provide a reliable overview of citations by company, year or filing location. More…
Cities look to IP for answers as they
feel the heat
This year, a Minesoft article exploring innovative solutions to the current rising temperatures in cities around the globe was featured in IPPro Annual. James Cooper, Customer Support Executive, explained how PatBase and PatBase Analytics V2 can be used to examine a “hot” technology area. More…
Minesoft is an official patron of Our
Future King: Prince Charles at 70
published by St James’s House
To mark Prince Charles’ 70th birthday on 14th November 2018 – the SJH Group and Royal Correspondent Robert Jobson have produced the commemorative publication Our Future King: Prince Charles at 70. More…
Minesoft launches new IP legal tool,
PatDocs
Minesoft is pleased to announce the release of a brand-new solution for all IP legal professionals, PatDocs. The new web-based software makes it easy for IP professionals to streamline their busy workload with an all-in-one system; incorporating auto-complete IDS forms, family tree mapping, one-click document ordering, offline legal status report and more… More…
Minesoft wins award for Best Business at regional Chamber of Commerce
event
The Minesoft team was thrilled to win the award for Best Business at the recent Richmond Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, and to applaud Co-Founder Ann Chapman-Daniel on her much-deserved win in the Best Female Entrepreneur category. More…
Innovation driving the Energy
Transition
Energy Transition involves a structural change in the energy system from our existing model to a new paradigm, going well beyond the simple replacement of one source of fuel energy by another. To help meet global climate change goals of limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 °C, set at the Paris Climate Agreement 2015, policy makers could strengthen investment conditions by shifting incentives to make renewable power more attractive to investors – thus stimulating innovation and patenting in renewable technologies. More…
The global innovation divide
According to the recently published Global Innovation Index 2018, the gap between low-income economies and middle-income economies has reduced in the past year. Despite public R&D spending around the world still being lower than it was before the global financial crisis, this gives us a reason to be optimistic about the future. A growth in knowledge and technology outputs – including patents and utility models – has been a key contributor as well as improvements in infrastructure, market sophistication and creative outputs. More…
Investigating the Intellectual Property (IP) landscape for the automotive
industry with Darts-ip and PatBase
The focus on IP in the automotive industry has intensified in many diverse areas. For example, the industry faces issues such as counterfeiting in their branding, while technological convergence means that patent protection and enforcement, licensing and collaboration have become more important than ever. One of the numerous new challenges is the entrance of new and non-traditional companies into the market, such as high-tech companies, that are developing extensive patent portfolios related both to traditional automobile manufacturing and emerging technologies. As in many other industries, the findings confirm that the automotive industry is seeing the activity of non-practicing entities (NPEs) rising. More…
Minesoft featured in ECI Growth
Survey 2018
Minesoft was recently featured as a case study in the ECI Growth Survey 2018, highlighting the strength and vitality of the UK’s growth companies. More…
Minesoft and Darts-ip announce a
new global case law information
service within PatBase
PatBase, the leading searchable global database of patents, utility models and designs co-produced by RWS PLC and Minesoft, will soon be enhanced by the extensive Darts-ip collection of patent/IP litigation data. Direct Links from PatBase will lead to detailed disclosures in the rapidly growing global Darts-ip Case Law database. More…