Check here for the latest news concerning product
releases and updates for our patent search, download and
management software.
6/22/2017 2017A released. Espacenet search and download
is now 100% OPS compliant, allowing for up to 10,000 search
results and faster and more reliable downloads. Problems
with accessing Depatisnet have been solved and WIPO and
USPTO support have also been updated.
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11/09/2016 2016B released. USPTO, Espacenet and WIPO
search and download codes update.
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4/25/2016 2016A released. Espacenet, WIPO and Depatisnet
search and download code updated.
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6/1/2015 2015A released. WIPO, Depatisnet and KIPRIS
code updated. Reports from the downloader are now archived
and can be viewed and managed. USPTO Expert saved search
has been changed to allow for longer search terms ( 500
character for the PatFT database, 1000 characters for
the AppFT database ).
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10/20/2014 2014B released. All server support has been
updated to reflect recent changes. Printing functions
have been rewritten to work with recent versions of Adobe
Reader and Acrobat with improved functionality. Espacenet
can now be used with your OPS login credentials to greatly
increase the download rate and quantity of allowed data.
Users can also control the rate at which data is downloaded
from all supported servers.
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5/25/2014 2014A released. Espacenet, Depatisnet, Patentscope
and USPTO support all updated to reflect new server behaviours.
Google support had to be suspended until the data is made
available again to 3rd parties.
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4/1/2013 2013A released. Espacenet, Depatisnet, Patentscope
and KIPRIS support all updated to reflect new server behaviours.
Google support now includes US applications and EP documents.
Note that Patentscope has now restricted anonymous access
to very slow rates of download. Support for their registration
and login system will come shortly for IP-Discover.
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10/16/2012 2012B released. Support for recent changes
to the Espacenet and WIPO Patentscope servers, and new
installation software for the application.
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3/1/12 2012A released. Changes made for new Espacenet
support, problems with Depatisnet document downloads have
been fixed ( this affects AU,KR,EP,WO,JP and CH documents
). There is new WIPO support for RU, SU, KE and JO documents.
Google advanced search has been fixed to support their
new interface. Changes were also made to the installer
to tweak IE so it times out less when server response
is sluggish ( this should make a big difference in the
number of errors you get when downloading many documents
).
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11/21/11 2011B released. Corrects for changes made to
the WIPO server. This release offers support for the newly
established national collections on WIPO. New features
include new error processing and a download report generated
after downloading documents.
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4/25/11 2011A version released. Corrects for changes
made to the Espacenet server.
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10/19/10 2010E version released. Corrects for changes
made to the Depatisnet server and adds new support for
the KIPRIS patent server.
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5/21/10 2010D version released. Fixes made for WIPO and
Google servers.
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3/31/10 2010C version released. Espacenet fixes and enhancements.
INPADOC legal information and patent family information.
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2/1/10 2010B version released. Espacenet fixes.
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1/20/10 2010A version released. Maintenance release for
changes made to the WIPO and Depatisnet document servers.
Espacenet status link updated to provide better status
reporting on the Espacenet document server.
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5/28/09 2009B version released. Changed to support new
USPTO server.
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2/09/09 2009A version released. This version adds support
for saved searches using the Google patent search engine.
Espacenet download has been changed to use the new OPS
Espacenet interface.
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1/31/08 2008 version released. This version updates the
WIPO server support to handle new document types and changes
made to the WIPO search and document servers.
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8/21/07 2007B version released to Pro and Demo users.
Nine new saved search features have been added. Seven
of those features are the Depatisnet beginner, expert,
IKOFAX, and family searches, and the WIPO simple, advanced
and structured searches. These searches are equivalent
to those provided by the Depatisnet and WIPO servers.
The USPTO expert search is an improved version of the
advanced search on the USPTO server. USPTO classplus is
a new search interface that combines a list of class/subclasses
and a set of fields and logical operators for constraining
the results. This search is particularly useful for those
doing USPTO class based searching as it can take an unlimited
number of subclasses.
The download engine has been improved to better handle
high load conditions at the servers. The download and
search engines have been updated to handle recent changes
to the WIPO server. Kind codes are better handled on the
Depatisnet server. A bug in the refine button has been
fixed.
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1/2/07 2007A version released to Pro and Demo users.
The download engine has been extended to include support
for Depatisnet and WIPO document servers. Also, support
for the new Google patent search engine has been added.
Various improvements have been made to the user interface,
including the ability to view and edit queued download
tasks and wizards to help in manually building lists of
documents. A new stats bar keeps track of your usage on
the different servers. IP-Discover generated search results
have been improved with a "refine" button and
clearer controls for cross-server downloading of the results.
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5/8/06 2006A version is released to Pro and Demo users.
The download engine has been rewritten to adjust for changes
made due to the recent USPTO move, and in anticipation
of the new feature release due out very shortly. Stay
tuned!
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9/12/05 2005B version is released to Pro and Demo users.
This release adds four new searches and improves the existing
search interfaces. Support for user profiles allows the
software to be used in corporate environs where user rights
may be limited.
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4/24/05 2005A version is released for Pro and Demo users.
This is a maintenance release based on changes made to
the Espacenet servers. In addition, some new features
such as desktop save are added, and some important fixes
for improved performance.
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4/12/04 2004B version is released to Pro and Demo users.
This release adds 4 new search dialogs, search buttons,
uniform search results with browse and download, and download
support for unindexed kind codes on Espacenet server.
Details to be found in the help files.
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11/02/03 2004A version is released to Pro and Demo users.
This release adds Espacenet3 Release support, resizable
controls, an Address and Annotation Bar, and several new
features and bug fixes. Details can be found in the help
files included with the demo.
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10/01/03 Pro version is updated to adjust for changes
at the Espacenet3 server. Email us if you are a Pro user
and have not received the upgrade.
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9/17/03 IP-Discover 2003D released for Pro and Demo users.
The new release offers substantial new features, such
as complex query authoring and support for the new Esp@cenet3
server system. If you are a registered user, you've already
been sent email with instructions for download. Please
contact us at support@ipdiscover.com for information if
you haven't. For Demo users, the new software can be downloaded
from the download page on this website. In either case,
simply install the new version over the old one.
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6/14/03 IP-Discover 2003C released for Pro users to accommodate
changes made to the Esp@cenet servers, in anticipation
of the Esp@cenet3 release. If you have not received the
new code, please contact support@ipdiscover.com.
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2/8/03 IP-Discover 2003 released. Demo version also available
for download.
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2/14/02 First IP-Discover 2002 Disc struck.