Minesoft’s dedicated Development Team is consistently evolving and improving our digital IP solutions to enhance the experience of our Users. The recent enhancements to IPShare, the web-based collaboration tool that helps teams organise and review patent and non-patent literature, introduces new features in the analytics tool Snapshot and improvements to reviewing documents. More…
Securing the public’s vote
With the 2020 Presidential elections in the United States well underway, millions of Americans have already cast their votes up to three weeks before Election Day. This year has already seen records broken for the number of early voters by mail or in-person at the polls. It is impressive to see these record numbers despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic guidelines keeping people at a distance from each other. More…
What are our customers saying about PatBase 2.0?
It has now been a few weeks since the launch of PatBase 2.0 at the start of September but here at Minesoft, the team is still buzzing with excitement about the new system! PatBase 2.0 introduced some neat new features including improved speed across the platform, PatBase Analytics V3, new search commands to enhance patent searching, Latin and non-Latin combined index and much more. This is the biggest update to PatBase since the launch in 2003 and our customers seem just as thrilled about PatBase 2.0 as the Minesoft Team. More…
What’s being done about the plastic waste problem?
A recent article by the Guardian talks about a newly engineered super-enzyme which can consume plastic six times faster than previously developed enzymes and at room temperature, enabling some types of plastic waste to be fully recycled. More…
Disruptive innovation via
cross-industry applications of
inventions
A test flight was recently conducted in the UK’s Lake District as a collaboration between the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) and Gravity Industries, founded by inventor Richard Browning. Browning previously received media attention for his flight suit invention and was nicknamed “real-life Iron Man” (referring to the Marvel superhero). The flight suit is made up of multiple engines which allow the wearer to pilot their flight using their arms and body to steer while in the air. This test flight demonstrates how the cross-industry application of inventions can lead to disruptive innovation. More…
PatBase’s Patent Citation Network to
reveal hidden insights
The volume and complexity of patent citations make it a difficult area to efficiently navigate. However, with the right tools, it is also an exceptionally valuable one. An accurate citation analysis requires calculations that involve the analysis of a very large number of patents where data quality and internationally broad content is paramount. Understanding a large dataset like this can be difficult, and just a few years ago neither the big data analytics tools accessible for most users or the lack of fully global data collections allowed for it. More…
Compare patent portfolios using
PatBase Analytics V3
Recently, Nvidia, the American technology company most known for its graphics processing units (GPU) announced it will acquire Softbank owned Arm, a large player in semiconductor technology. Arm’s chips power over 95% of the world’s smartphone market as its primary business is licencing its IP. More…
Israel’s growing investment in
intellectual property
In WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2020, Chapter 12 looks at “Israel’s Challenging Transformation from Start-up Nation to Scale-up Nation”. Israel often ranks at the top in international innovation and entrepreneurship reports, as it boasts more start-ups per capita than any other country. Israel also leads the world in the number of Engineers per capita and by Research and Development (R&D) expenditure by % of GDP and per capita. More…
How Minesoft grew to be a Patent
Solutions Powerhouse in less than 25 years
Getting Minesoft off the ground as a patent solutions provider
Minesoft was founded by Ann Chapman-Daniel and Ophir Daniel in 1996 at their kitchen table, as an ideal way to combine their unique skillset in sci-tech publishing and programming. Together, they took the plunge to establish Minesoft, initially aided by a distribution and development deal by France Telecom. More…
New Minesoft webinar series to
introduce PatBase 2.0!
PatBase 2.0 will be launched next Monday, September 7th, 2020!
Following the launch of the new Search Engine, the Minesoft Support team will be running webinars for our customers to cover what is new in PatBase, PatBase Express and PatBase Analytics V3. The well-liked previous syntax of commands is carried over but there are numerous new possibilities for in-depth searching very fast and this will be demonstrated in the new Webinar Series. More…