Minesoft

Minesoft supplies patent information tools to corporations, patent attorney firms and patent authorities around the world. The company began by building databases and software for the information industry and now concentrates on patent intelligence.

What Minesoft offers

• PatBase and PatBase Express — searchable international patent family databases with full text.
• PatentOrder — a service for ordering patent documents.
• Minesoft Origin — a collaborative platform for patent searching, monitoring and analysis that uses AI to speed up review.
• Custom solutions — in-house patent alerting and archiving systems built to a client's needs.
• Data insight — flexible data sets with custom tagging to show trends for a business and its competitors.

Who it works with

The company serves legal, IP and R&D teams. It also works with industrial corporations, law firms that handle patents and national patent offices.

Key facts

• Founded: 1996
• Recognition: won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2009
• Development: an in-house team handles customisation