What's New in Thomson Innovation

See Your New Thomson Innovation

YOU...

• asked for a more intuitive interface
• wanted more power to review search results faster
• wanted to be heard

You now have that, and more.

The new, more intuitive user interface on Thomson Innovation will speed your workflow and bring forward the information you need – exactly when you need it.

Some key highlights in the new Thomson Innovation include:

• A cleaner, more modern interface with better organization
• Numbered step functionality for key features
• New universal menu bars that put functions all in one place
• More use of tabs means less scrolling for the information you need
• The new quick record view gives you fast one-second-per-record paging
• Larger images with immediate access to all drawings
• Better readability with larger text and flexible font sizes
• Faster ways to review and collect records

To see a short demo highlighting the new usability enhancements, click here.

We're confident that you will benefit from these exciting changes. You are the reason we made the new Thomson Innovation.

On September 10, 2011, we released enhancements to Thomson Innovation to bring you additional content and functionality designed to improve the quality and coverage of your patent research and increase your workflow efficiencies.

Highlights include:

NewsRoom^TM from Thomson Reuters – We have greatly enhanced the content and functionality of our Business Information and News with the addition of NewsRoom from Thomson Reuters, which replaces the current News and Product collections. NewsRoom on Thomson Innovation completes your view of the IP landscape by delivering the world's most comprehensive collection of news, business and trade publications alongside the industry's most trusted global patent information and scientific literature. You can now:

• Search over 3,000 trade journals, 97 of the top 100 U.S. newspapers along with major international newspapers, and more than 8,000 other news sources
• Integrate your search and retrieval with powerful ThemeScape Maps and Clustering to more quickly focus on items that are critical to your IP research
• Get the most relevant search results with new and enhanced search fields and search aids, improving the quality of your research and your productivity

Custom Fields Enhancements – We expanded our industry-leading Custom Fields capability, making it easier for you to integrate your own reviews, classifications and other corporate data with the industry's most trusted global patent information and scientific literature. In addition to fully integrating Custom Fields with all Thomson Innovation tools, the new update lets you:

• Analyze Custom Field values in Charting, Clustering and Citation Maps, along with global patent data
• Automatically apply Custom Field values to all records in a DWPI family when a value is added to just one family member
• Import data from internal company databases into Custom Fields, folder hierarchies and Work Files
• Utilize colored flags for quick recognition of records with specified values
• Leverage new field types for even more flexibility, including multi-valued pick lists, check boxes, radio buttons and URLs

Canadian Full-Text Coverage – Thomson Innovation now includes Canadian full-text patents, giving you a more complete view of the global patent landscape.

Japanese Language Search – We have enhanced our Japanese-language patent collection with the addition of a 25-year backfile of full-text, providing comprehensive prior art searching of granted patents, applications and utility models.