News about IPDiscover patent search software, patent download software and patent management software for USPTO, WIPO, Depatisnet, Google, Espacenet patent servers.


	Latest News for IP-Discover Users. 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. ................................ 11/09/2016 2016B released. USPTO, Espacenet and WIPO search and download codes update. ................................ 4/25/2016 2016A released. Espacenet, WIPO and Depatisnet search and download code updated. ................................ 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 ). ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 10/16/2012 2012B released. Support for recent changes to the Espacenet and WIPO Patentscope servers, and new installation software for the application. ................................ 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 ). ................................ 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. ................................ 4/25/11 2011A version released. Corrects for changes made to the Espacenet server. ................................ 10/19/10 2010E version released. Corrects for changes made to the Depatisnet server and adds new support for the KIPRIS patent server. ................................ 5/21/10 2010D version released. Fixes made for WIPO and Google servers. ................................ 3/31/10 2010C version released. Espacenet fixes and enhancements. INPADOC legal information and patent family information. ................................ 2/1/10 2010B version released. Espacenet fixes. ................................ 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. ................................ 5/28/09 2009B version released. Changed to support new USPTO server. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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! ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 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. ................................ 2/8/03 IP-Discover 2003 released. Demo version also available for download. ................................ 2/14/02 First IP-Discover 2002 Disc struck.