News

February 5, 2012 - Release 2.5 is now available

• Downloading of file wrappers, assignment, and maintenance data from the USPTO
• Generation of patent family trees
• Improved claim tree graphics
• Text search with citations
• Enhancements to IDS-related features
• Many minor improvements & bug fixes

July 6, 2011 - Release 2.15 is now available

• Improvements to patent downloading features (including batch downloading of patent PDFs from PTO/EPO)
• Enhancements to IDS-related features 
• Analysis of Office Actions and patent file histories
• Improvements to rule editing and report-reviewing features
• Many minor improvements & bug fixes

January 4, 2011 - Release 2.0 is now available.

• Improvements to reporting (commented reports, batch reporting)
• IDS generation improvements (SB08 forms)
• Acronym checking
• User-customizable antecedent checking rules
• Auto-docking reporting windows
• Bug fixes, etc.

May 25, 2010 - Release 1.7 is now available

• Improvements to claim parsing accuracy
• Check consistency between reference numbers in the specification and figures, including duplicate #s in figures 
• A number of small bug fixes and improvements

January 13, 2010- Release 1.6 is now available.

• Automatic updates
• Speed improvements for all features
• Accuracy enhancements for antecedent and reference # checking
• More informative status bars
• Reference term checking is now working on 64bit Vista and Windows 7 system
• Fixed some hang-up issues when checking reference term numbers
• Fixed some issues with sequential claim renumbering of temporary claims
• Other small bug fixes/improvements

December 6, 2009 - release 1.5 is now available.

• Batch download/processing of patents and patent publications
• Auto-generation of 1449 IDS forms
• Improved claim renumbering - renumber duplicate claims, claims with placeholder numbers, sequence renumbering.
• Calculation of excess claim fees in EPO.
• Many new claim/text rules to identify "patent profanities", etc.
• Other small improvements and bug fixes.