IP Insights by Minesoft

Topics

  • Case Study

  • Due Diligence

  • Interesting Patents

  • IP 101

  • Legal Liability

  • Market Intel

  • News

  • Patent Intel

  • Product

  • Sustainability

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Patent Intel

Prior Art References: Streamline Your Patent Prosecution Strategy

4 March, 2026

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6 min read

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Patent Intel

How to handle 250+ patents in FTO searches

17 February, 2026

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7 min read

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Patent Intel

Cut through the noise: How Results Chat refined 200+ patents down to 18

10 February, 2026

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5 min read

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Patent reviewing: Results Chat

5 February, 2026

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2 min read

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News

Minesoft Origin 2

2 February, 2026

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7 min read

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2025 Review: Innovations that power your IP strategy  

15 December, 2025

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6 min read

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Minesoft at IPSW: Transforming Patent Intelligence with AI

28 November, 2025

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5 min read

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Patent searching: Concept Tree

27 November, 2025

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3 min read

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Custom Fields: Make patent data work the way you do

27 October, 2025

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3 min read

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Enhancing Collaboration in Origin: Building Better Workflows & Analytics

23 October, 2025

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4 min read

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Product

Best practices for Document Chat 

1 October, 2025

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6 min read

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Patent Intel | Product

IP Reimagined: New demands, new solutions

18 September, 2025

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3 min read

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Product

Minesoft PatBase: What’s new this autumn?

16 September, 2025

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2 min read

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Key takeaways from September’s Product Pulse

11 September, 2025

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4 min read

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Document Chat: Transform How You Understand Patents

29 August, 2025

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3 min read

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Product

Explain AI search hit: Trustworthy, transparent AI search with Minesoft

29 August, 2025

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2 min read

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Legal Liability

Patent Family Research: Moving Beyond the Data Dump

13 August, 2025

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4 min read

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Patent Intel

🔍Key takeaways from the Prosecution Alerts webinar

7 August, 2025

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3 min read

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July updates – Origin

16 July, 2025

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2 min read

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Patent Intel

🔍 Key Takeaways from DCIF Webinar 2025 – Patent Intelligence for Competitive Advantage

15 July, 2025

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2 min read

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IP 101

Prior Art Search Explained: A Simple Guide for Innovators

15 July, 2025

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6 min read

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IP Portfolio Management: Tips For Managing Your IP

15 July, 2025

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7 min read

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Patent Intel

Work With a Partner Who Gets You: What Today’s IP Teams Really Need

26 June, 2025

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3 min read

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Patent Intel

Raising the Bar: What Modern IP Teams Need

25 June, 2025

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5 min read

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Patent Intel

From Expert Only to the Collaboration Era: Rethinking Patent Intelligence

25 June, 2025

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4 min read

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Patent Intel

A New Era of Patent Workflows

25 June, 2025

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3 min read

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IP 101 | Market Intel

White Space Analysis: What it is & Why it Matters

18 June, 2025

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10 min read

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IP 101 | Market Intel

Patent Landscape Analysis in 6 Easy Steps

18 June, 2025

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9 min read

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Patent Intel | Product

Always Making Things Better

30 May, 2025

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2 min read

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Patent Intel

Raising the bar: what modern IP teams need

27 May, 2025

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5 min read

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Due Diligence | IP 101

Your Quick 4-Step Action Plan for Patent Due Diligence 

30 April, 2025

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11 min read

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Product

Minesoft Origin: Transforming IP management with cutting-edge innovation

8 September, 2024

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2 min read

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News

Global Innovations Transforming Our World in 2024

12 July, 2024

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4 min read

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News

USPTO and the UK IP office are to collaborate on standard essential patent policies

2 July, 2024

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3 min read

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Due Diligence | IP 101

What are Intangible Assets? How to Value

15 April, 2024

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6 min read

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IP 101

How Patent Families Can Enhance Your Patent Portfolio

4 April, 2024

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9 min read

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IP 101

Understanding Patented Technology & Innovation

12 March, 2024

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5 min read

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IP 101

An Expert Guide to Understanding Patent Claims

4 March, 2024

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5 min read

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IP 101

Your Guide to Understanding Standard Essential Patents

1 March, 2024

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6 min read

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IP 101

What is a Patent Information Disclosure Statement?

14 February, 2024

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5 min read

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IP 101

The Power of Semantic Mapping in Patent Analysis

14 February, 2024

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6 min read

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IP 101

Using Technology Transfers to Promote Innovation

13 February, 2024

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6 min read

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IP 101

How Does Freedom to Operate Impact Your Patent Strategy?

7 February, 2024

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5 min read

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IP 101

Copyright vs Patent vs Trademark: What’s the difference?

19 December, 2023

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8 min read

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IP 101

International Patents – Protecting Your IP Globally

5 December, 2023

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11 min read

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IP 101

Your Guide To Patent Term Adjustment (Jargon-Free)

15 November, 2023

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4 min read

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IP 101

A Deep Dive into Patent Litigation: Your Essential Companion

8 November, 2023

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13 min read

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IP 101

The Role of Patents in the Pharmaceutical Sector

25 October, 2023

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6 min read

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Legal Liability

Navigating the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court 

11 October, 2023

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5 min read

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IP 101

Patentability Assessments: All You Need To Know

27 September, 2023

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6 min read

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Interesting Patents

Can You Patent a Process? Everything You Need To Know

5 September, 2023

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8 min read

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IP 101

Software IP: How to Start Protecting Your Software IP

30 August, 2023

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10 min read

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IP 101

The Ultimate Guide to IP Licensing

9 August, 2023

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11 min read

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IP 101

The Advantages of an Effective IP Strategy

2 August, 2023

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7 min read

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IP 101

What is Intellectual Property?

26 July, 2023

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12 min read

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IP 101

How To Patent A Product: All You Need To Know

26 July, 2023

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6 min read

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IP 101

What is a Patent? A Clear & Easy Guide To Understanding Patents

19 July, 2023

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11 min read

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IP 101

How To Patent An Idea In 10 Steps (Expert Guide)

12 July, 2023

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9 min read

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IP 101

A guide to Intellectual Property Law in the US

5 July, 2023

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11 min read

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IP 101

A Guide to Intellectual Property Law in the UK

28 June, 2023

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10 min read

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News

Minesoft updates

31 May, 2023

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2 min read

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IP 101

Why should IP Paralegals use an online patent database? 

24 May, 2023

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3 min read

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Product

New PatBase enhancements

17 May, 2023

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3 min read

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News | Product

Minesoft releases Minesoft Origin, a new AI-Powered Patent Search Solution

24 April, 2023

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2 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Innovations for sustainable development

19 April, 2023

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3 min read

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IP 101

Patent Assignment Reporting in 5 easy steps

29 March, 2023

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2 min read

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Case Study | News

Minesoft client OlarteMoure represented Ericsson in Colombia in their recent patent dispute with Apple

22 March, 2023

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3 min read

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IP 101

The Role of Patents in the Food Industry

8 March, 2023

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5 min read

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IP 101

3D Printing and Patents: A Guide

1 March, 2023

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4 min read

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News

The challenges to patentability posed by Artificial Intelligence

15 February, 2023

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Converting excess carbon dioxide into organic molecules

11 January, 2023

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

The fight against electronic waste: Biodegradable circuit boards

21 December, 2022

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3 min read

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Product

Harnessing the value in patent citations with PatBase  

14 December, 2022

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3 min read

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Patent Intel

Exploiting patent data without breaking the bank

23 November, 2022

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4 min read

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Interesting Patents

Innovative Drone Technologies

27 October, 2022

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6 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Transparent solar panels: The future of solar energy?

21 September, 2022

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4 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Innovations helping to tackle air pollution

7 September, 2022

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3 min read

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IP 101

AI art and IP protection

31 August, 2022

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3 min read

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IP 101

How can AI help improve accessibility to healthcare?

17 August, 2022

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4 min read

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IP 101

Why is ‘Innovation Intelligence’ vital
for your business?

18 May, 2022

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4 min read

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IP 101

Why you should invest in a
commercial patent database

27 April, 2022

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5 min read

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IP 101

Patenting innovations in the metaverse

12 April, 2022

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5 min read

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IP 101

Harnessing the value in patent citations

3 March, 2022

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4 min read

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News

Minesoft acquired by MLM 2 and
Warburg Pincus

28 February, 2022

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5 min read

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Market Intel

The possible impact of AI on life
sciences IP strategies

26 January, 2022

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3 min read

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Market Intel

What does patent data reveal about
climate change mitigation technology trends?

19 January, 2022

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Ocean Conservation through
Innovation

24 November, 2021

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4 min read

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Market Intel

Bioinformatics and Digital
Health patents: A rapidly
changing landscape

17 November, 2021

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3 min read

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Market Intel

The real-world effect of diversity of
inventors in Biomedicine

10 November, 2021

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4 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Shell Phones: Nature Inspiring
Innovation

6 October, 2021

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2 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Carbon capture technology:
A solution to climate change?

29 September, 2021

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4 min read

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News | Product

An update from Minesoft Support

18 August, 2021

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2 min read

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Interesting Patents

Could patents give us insight
into Apple’s electric car

11 August, 2021

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4 min read

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IP 101

Building an internal IP
Knowledge Network

3 August, 2021

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3 min read

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IP 101

What is a patent citation and
why is it useful to research?

28 July, 2021

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6 min read

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IP 101

Inequality in intellectual property and innovation

10 June, 2021

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5 min read

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News

Most Promising Legal Tech
Solution Providers 2021

25 May, 2021

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3 min read

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News

Minesoft tools featured in The Patent Lawyer

12 May, 2021

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3 min read

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Minesoft has been awarded LegalTech Company of the Year

31 March, 2021

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2 min read

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Product

Find chemicals easily within patents with Minesoft’s Chemical Explorer

24 March, 2021

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3 min read

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Minesoft PAIR Alerts now monitor international applications!

17 March, 2021

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1 min read

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Legal Liability | Product

PatDocs, the Legal Tech AI solution

10 March, 2021

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3 min read

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IP 101

New book features Minesoft chapter
on how SMEs can leverage IP to
accelerate growth

19 January, 2021

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2 min read

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News

Minesoft awarded LegalTech
Company of the Year by ACQ5

18 December, 2020

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2 min read

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IP 101

Leverage your patent portfolio by
monetising intangible assets

16 December, 2020

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5 min read

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Product

Application of machine translation for global patent search

3 December, 2020

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2 min read

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Product

Perform easy patent searches with
the intuitive PatBase Express!

25 November, 2020

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3 min read

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Product

What are our customers saying about PatBase 2.0?

28 October, 2020

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents

Disruptive innovation via
cross-industry applications of
inventions

14 October, 2020

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3 min read

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Product

PatBase’s Patent Citation Network to
reveal hidden insights

7 October, 2020

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3 min read

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Product

Compare patent portfolios using
PatBase Analytics V3

30 September, 2020

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2 min read

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News

How Minesoft grew to be a Patent
Solutions Powerhouse in less than 25 years

16 September, 2020

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4 min read

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Minesoft and RWS are pleased to
announce the release of PatBase 2.0

7 September, 2020

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3 min read

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Product

How to use PatBase Analytics to
translate patent data to colleagues
and managers

29 July, 2020

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents

Disruptive Innovation in Vaccination
Technology

22 July, 2020

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4 min read

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News

Minesoft ranks as a Top 10 Legal Tech Provider 

22 May, 2020

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents

Plastic waste vs. e-waste: where is the industry investing the big bucks?

11 February, 2020

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5 min read

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Patent Intel

Global 5G Patent Trends

28 January, 2020

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5 min read

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News

Minesoft receives National and Global Awards from ACQ5

23 January, 2020

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3 min read

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Patent Intel

Medical Innovation Trends in India
Based on Patent Data

12 December, 2019

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4 min read

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News

Innovation at Minesoft: Spotlight on
Ophir Daniel

26 November, 2019

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4 min read

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IP 101

Patent inventors and the question of
artificial intelligence

28 October, 2019

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3 min read

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Interesting Patents

Patent report: the road ahead for
driverless cars

1 October, 2019

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3 min read

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IP 101

Business Intelligence: The Importance of a Strong Patent Strategy

23 August, 2019

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5 min read

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IP 101

Patent databases – overcoming the
language barrier

8 July, 2019

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3 min read

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Product

Chinese patent search made easier
with new access to legal status data
from SIPO in PatBase

20 June, 2019

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2 min read

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IP 101

Patent strategy: open vs closed

10 June, 2019

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2 min read

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News

Co-founder Ann Chapman-Daniel
honoured in German Magazine
“PASSWORD” as the Information
Professional of the Year

20 May, 2019

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3 min read

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IP 101

Patent software solutions for sharing crucial patent data

20 May, 2019

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2 min read

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PatBase featured in new research
paper published by World Patent
Information

13 May, 2019

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3 min read

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Minesoft featured in CIO Applications Magazine as the Top 10 Enterprise
Search Solution Providers for 2019

1 April, 2019

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2 min read

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Product

Minesoft launch patent citation
analysis option in PatBase Analytics
V2

18 December, 2018

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3 min read

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Legal Liability | Product

Minesoft launches new IP legal tool,
PatDocs

29 November, 2018

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2 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Innovation driving the Energy
Transition

13 November, 2018

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2 min read

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Minesoft featured in ECI Growth
Survey 2018

26 September, 2018

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3 min read

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Minesoft ranked as one of the 10 Most Promising Legal Technology Solution Providers – 2018

10 September, 2018

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2 min read

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Interesting Patents | Sustainability

Innovations to solve the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution

1 August, 2018

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4 min read

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News

Minesoft presents at CEPIUG alongside Umicore Germany

3 July, 2018

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2 min read

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News

Jochen Lennhof invited to speak at Dresden Technical University for World IP Day

26 April, 2018

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2 min read

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Minesoft launch quick analysis
module for PatBase

18 April, 2018

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2 min read

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IP 101 | Patent Intel

The Power of Sharing: Disseminating IP information company-wide

6 April, 2018

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2 min read

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Enhancements to Chemical Explorer

28 February, 2018

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4 min read

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Minesoft enhance Citation Explorer module in flagship product, PatBase

28 February, 2018

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2 min read

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New enhancements to the Citation
Explorer module in PatBase

22 February, 2018

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2 min read

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Minesoft contribute chapter to Growing Business Innovation: Creating, Marketing and Monetising IP

12 December, 2017

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2 min read

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Enhanced Legal Status Viewer in PatBase

24 November, 2017

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3 min read

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Turkish Patent Data added to PatBase

23 June, 2017

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2 min read

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Market Intel

Paragraph IV filings, generic drugs and Big Pharma

14 June, 2017

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5 min read

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Legal Liability

The Unified Patent Court and Brexit

8 June, 2017

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2 min read

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USPTO PAIR data now added to PatBase and Legal StatusTracker

11 May, 2017

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2 min read

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PatBase Alerts now customisable

5 May, 2017

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1 min read

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News

Minesoft is pleased to support The Times Intellectual Property Report

4 May, 2017

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2 min read

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News

Minesoft receive Award for Best Business in Innovation

4 May, 2017

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2 min read

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News | Product

MINESOFT & CENTREDOC create a bridge between PatBase and RAPID platforms

17 March, 2017

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2 min read

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Minesoft add powerful Semantic Search module to PatBase

28 November, 2016

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2 min read

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Product

Minesoft announces Non-Patent Literature Module for PatBase

25 November, 2016

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2 min read

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Minesoft – winner of the Best Business for Innovation Award

25 November, 2016

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1 min read

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NEW Enhancements to PatBase and PatBase Express

21 October, 2016

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2 min read

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Enhanced Legal Status View in PatBase

30 August, 2016

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2 min read

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New PatBase Enhancements

11 August, 2016

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2 min read

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Product

New PatBase Thesaurus Goes Live!

19 July, 2016

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2 min read

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Minesoft launches new version of CiteTracker for monitoring patent citations

27 April, 2016

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2 min read

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News

PatBase patent data underpins new
study in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

19 April, 2016

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2 min read

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Enhanced Patent Legal Status Tools in PatBase

30 March, 2016

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3 min read

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IP 101

The Power of Patent Citations

19 February, 2016

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6 min read

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IP 101

Extracting chemical information from patents at a reasonable cost?

21 January, 2016

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2 min read

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Product

Minesoft launches Chemical Explorer
for patent full-text chemical structure searching

9 November, 2015

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2 min read

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Product

Minesoft Releases New Software for Mining Full Text Patent Documents

4 November, 2015

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2 min read

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News

Minesoft Receives Queen’s Award For Enterprise At Buckingham Palace

22 July, 2015

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2 min read

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Product

Minesoft launches patent citations watch service CiteTracker

14 July, 2015

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1 min read

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Product

Full Text Israeli Patent Data Added To PatBase, the Global Patent Database

22 June, 2015

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2 min read

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New to PatBase – Minesoft Launches Citation Explorer

1 June, 2015

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2 min read

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Minesoft Wins The Queens Award For Enterprise

21 April, 2015

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2 min read

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Minesoft Develops API to Open Up Access to Big Patent Data

20 February, 2015

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2 min read

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Corporate Tree Enhances Company Searches In Patent Information Platforms PatBase And PatBase Express

30 October, 2014

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2 min read

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Minesoft and RWS Introduce Powerful New Patent Analytics Software and Corporate Tree Feature to PatBase Express

24 September, 2014

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2 min read

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Minesoft Launches New Responsive PatBase Express Website For Patent Research

23 September, 2014

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2 min read

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New Chinese Interface For PatBase

4 September, 2014

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2 min read

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Advanced New Legal Status Tools Added To PatBase

28 January, 2014

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2 min read

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Advances In Legal Status Searching In PatBase

12 September, 2013

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2 min read

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New Cross-Lingual Search Tools In PatBase

6 June, 2012

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2 min read