Our prices & product variants
Standalone version, network solution or individual profile service: Choose the variant that suits you.
Standalone License
IP7 Compass Software Professional
Ideal for patent researchers and patent reporters
3.500 €
net, plus value added tax
- Patent search (e.g. FTO, prior art)
- Evaluation, classification, commenting
- Patent analysis (graphical analyses)
- Patent monitoring (automatically executed search profiles)
- Family and legal status monitoring
- Includes extended database and machine translations
- Use independent of workstation
Network License
IP7 Compass Software Network
Ideal for companies and law firms (patent attorneys, patent managers, patent department, development managers/product managers, administrators)
Individual offer
- All the features of IP7 Compass Professional. PLUS:
- Patent Monitoring (Monitoring Tasks)
- Administration
- Workflow functions
- As many users as you want
- Flexible software extensions for different user groups (depending on role, task, level of knowledge)
IP7 Profile Service
IP7 - Service
Ideal for law firms, patent attorneys and companies
Individual offer
- Automated patent search and / or patent monitoring as a service
- No own research necessary
- Regular evaluations as PDF and / or Excel, customizable
- Reports with all relevant info and links to the original patent specification
- Ideal for passing on to clients or customers
- Includes extended database and machine translations
- Additional option: Access to IP7 Compass patent software
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Network LicenseIP7 Compass Network
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| Project based working ? FTOs, State of the Art, etc. -> Process patents from different viewpoints |
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| Patent Status ? Mark patents as read or not relevant -> Keep the overview (what is new and what has already been processed) |
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| Hierarchic folder structure | |
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| Evaluations and comments ? Evaluation is linked to the project -> Context of the evaluation is therefore always visible |
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| Search History ? executed searches are saved automatically
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| Open last session ? continue working in the same place where you left off
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| Use different patent family groupings | |
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| Simplified search interface | |
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| Professional search interface ? with graphical user interface (search blocks incl. search assistant)
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| Patent number search ? Publication number, application number |
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| Full text search ? Truncation, regular expressions, proximity operators, etc. |
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| Classification search ? IPC,CPC,F-Term |
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| Applicant search ? Use groupings, search owners, etc. |
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| Search classes in own data ? Search evaluations, folders, comments, etc. |
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| Citation search ? Forward and backward citation with different levels, indirect citation |
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| Extensive search criteria ? KD search, legal status search, inventor search, etc. |
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| Search results ? or include results in the search (with AND, OR, NOT) |
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| Manage results ? save/open |
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| Nest searches ? Suche in der Suche |
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| Determine top terms from result | |
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| Determine top IPC/CPC classes from result | |
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| Determine top applicants (companies) from result | |
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| Determine top inventors from result | |
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| Determine top countries from result | |
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| Relevance ranking of the results ? best results first or display on top |
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| Sort result list ? e.g. by applicant name, publication date etc. |
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| Mark synonyms by color ? include previously grouped terms in the full text search again |
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| Keyboard shortcuts ? View large results faster |
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| Representative settings ? set preferred documents e.g. show preferred granted DE from patent families |
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| Surfaces/Interface | ||
| Use of multiple screens (tabs) ? no restriction to one window, instead open tabs (like in browser) |
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| Result list ? short overview Customize list (what and how should it be displayed) |
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| Detail view ? all information can be used interactively (all family members, citations, full texts etc) Customize interface (what, how and where should it be displayed) |
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| Database | ||
| 140 million documents | |
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| Bibliographic data from over 100 offices | |
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| Full texts ? from 80 countries |
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| Machine translations ? from > 50 countries (among others Asian countries, Latin America, Scandinavia, South America, ...) |
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| Simplified legal status ? INPADOC legal status codes are automatically categorized (published, granted, dead) |
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| Automated grouping of applicant names ? similar spellings of company names are grouped together |
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| Basis/Units/Grouping ? Document, application, strict and extended family |
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| Regular updates ? weekly database updates |
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| Export | ||
| Excel ? Suitable for large quantities |
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| Word ? for smaller quantities with all details |
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| XML ? suitable for import to other systems (e.g. patent management software) |
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| Analysis | ||
| Filter ? Analysis of top IPC classes, CPC classes, applicants, inventors, etc. |
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| Family diagram ? graphical representation of the patent family |
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| Citation tree ? graphical representation of the citations |
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| Graphical analysis ? extensive possibilities to graphically analyze millions of patents |
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| Hierarchical folder structure (knowledge database) ? Use own folder structures in the team e.g. technology tree |
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| Automated search profiles ? get new results automatically e.g. competitor monitoring, class monitoring, etc. |
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| Allocation of tasks ? create different tasks for different departments (who, what, how) e.g. patents: allocation / pre-sorting, assessment, evaluation |
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| User-specific applications ? different applications for professionals, experts and R&D (depending on knowledge level and requirement profile) |
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| Process/ Workflow ? Define events that trigger the next step or task -> define own workflow (when does a patent end up in which task) |
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| Definition of additional individual fields ? define own evaluation criteria, comment fields, selection fields etc. |
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| Family and legal status monitoring ? e.g. auto. Information about granting |
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| Administration ? Create and manage users, groups, tasks, etc. Rights: who is allowed to see or assign which folders, evaluations, etc. |
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| Share information ? Share compiled information with the team e.g. saved search profiles, highlighting, manual applicant groups etc. |
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