Intellectual property, properly

MicroPatent has announced an alliance with ClearForest, a partnership said to allow patent, research and licensing professionals to quickly and accurately analyze large volumes of patent information, extract key documents and have the option to return them to the Aureka Online Services (AOS) platform from Aurigin or MicroPatent for further review.

MicroPatent reports it houses the world's largest commercial collection of searchable full-text patent data, including data from the United States, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, the World Intellectual Property Organization and Japan.

ClearForest's ClearResearch product complements MicroPatent's data and the functionality available within AOS. ClearResearch automates the initial analysis of a document set by crunching patent information into a database repository file (DRF), creating a taxonomy of terms and thesaurus of synonyms so it can be viewed various ways, shedding light on the competitive landscape. Category, context, special filters and trend and star maps, in addition to trend graphs, taxonomy and synonym editors, reportedly further enhance the analysis, refining the document set before the option to round-trip back into AOS to complete the review.