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FemTech – Reviewing Patents to Highlight Innovation

Clare Gibson Senior Patent Analyst at PatWorld shares her thoughts on the Innovation in FemTech by reviewing patents.

“FemTech” is a relatively recent term coined in 2016 by the Danish entrepreneur Ida Tin, creator of the period and menstruation tracking app “Clue”, where the term is now synonymous with technology focused on women’s health. Such technology often includes software, diagnostics, products and services, with a large proportion holding female reproductive health at its core. For example, fertility solutions, menstruation tracking apps, pregnancy care, nursing care, sexual wellness, contraception, and general reproductive health care are a few areas where FemTech operates.

Read the full article in the latest issue of the Women’s IP World Annual.

Clare Gibson is a Senior Analyst at PatWorld and an expert in undertaking FTO, Patentability and Invalidity searches, covering all types of subject matter with specialisms in Physics and Mechanics.

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Understanding which companies are working in the same technology area as you can be beneficial. If your competitors have filed several new patents more recently this indicates active research and development. Further examination of the patents in detail will provide insights into the nature of the product, the underlying technology and how much it differs from products currently in-market. In addition, companies will monitor their competitors patent filing over time to keep an eye on their research and development.

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PatWorld V3 New Features and Updates. We’re excited to announce we’ve upgraded our system with the release of V3!

Version 3 brings with it a complete redesign of the application for a smoother, more intuitive search experience. In addition to the new features and improvements. Changes are summarized below, and more information will be available via the Help pages on the PatWorld platform.

Our favourite features include sidebar, notes/ratings dashboard, folder indicators on results page, save as new chart, project activity stream and the following power-user features:

• New keyboard shortcuts.
• Folder name truncation searching.
• Publication level folder searching (using the SD syntax).

New Layout

• Everything within your project can now be accessed quickly and easily via the new sidebar.
• Notes/Ratings, Folders, Charts, Exports, Alerts and Reports dashboards are now available. This allows you to quickly review them and, where applicable, view their associated publications at the click of a button!

• Each dedicated page has been designed to provide you with all the information you should need, including:
  – The notes and ratings you have given to the publications within your project.
  

–  Alert run times and latest changes for each alert.

– Project and user group members and their associated privileges.

– The activities within your project, by all users within the project (available via the Project Overview page and the new header) providing an audit trail for all your projects.

New Features

• Return to the results page on your last viewed query and resume analysis from any page by clicking the Results link in the sidebar.
  
• The family tree drawer now includes indications for the ratings, notes, and folders of each publication.
• Folders for each publication are indicated in each publication’s header on the results page.
  
• Add metadata to your projects and see the reference, description, and summary in your reports!
  
• Quickly and easily switch projects and histories via the new switchers in the header.
  
• You can now save your charts as a new chart via the ‘Save As’ button, allowing you to quickly create multiple charts from the same source.
  – Once saved, you can now also compare up to 4 charts side-by-side.
• Notes/Ratings, Folders, Highlighting, Charts, Exports, Alerts, Reports, Histories update in real time for smooth collaboration.
• More keyboard shortcuts added to the results pages, where 0-5 will now rate the active publication accordingly, 6 opens the note for the active publication, and 7 appends any selected text to the active publication’s note.

Improvements

• Directional distance operators are now available allowing you to ensure each word follows the previous, e.g., test f2 tube will find testing of tubes but not tubes for testing.
• Publication level folder searching (via the SD syntax) e.g. {SD:Myfolder} will return the publications added your folders rather than all the family members thereof which are returned by {MyFolder}, allowing you to identify the relevant publications more easily when reviewing your results.
• Folder name truncation searching e.g. {MyFolder*} will search {MyFolder1} and {MyFolder2}.
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New Enhanced PatWorld Patent Alerts & Monitoring system with the release of V2.5. Includes Monitoring New Forward and Backward Citations.

Version 2.5 brings with it a lot of changes to our Alerts feature which we’ll cover below. But firstly.

What are alerts and why would I use them?

Alerts allow you to monitor a specific portfolio of patents, a query containing up-to-date patent data or patents of particular interest. For example patents in a folder, with notes or star-ratings you have provided. You can base an alert on any number of queries. Including an assignee, a classification, a full text string, a list of publication numbers or any other searchable fields. Alerts are set to weekly by default. So that each week you can gain an edge into potential infringements, new advancements in a particular technology area or new competitors.

Monitor New Forward Citations / Backward Citations

These options allow for an easy way to monitor competitors, potential infringements and new advancements in a particular area.

Monitor Additional New Fields

Control which ‘other’ fields to monitor. Just by selecting full text additions, names, family movements and classifications separately to tailor to your interests.

Schedule Email Notifications to Any Email Address

Keep your colleagues and clients up to date. Automatically schedule sending alert emails to external recipients.

One Click Changelog Downloads

Alert emails feature a one-click downloadable csv changelog link as a faster way to access the data. See highlighted text on the image above.

Additional Content Added to Downloadable CSV

Additional fields added to csv change logs; title, abstract, first claim, publication date, application date, priority information, applicant, inventor, IPC, CPC.  Furthermore, Changelogs contain more specific change information (e.g. 2 classifications added, abstract now available, 3 legal statuses added).

View All Your Changes in a New Viewable Folder

When a change occurs a folder is created in your project. This folder contains publications with identified changes. You can then produce charts, custom exports or view results in PatWorld.

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