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Overview
PatBase from Minesoft provides comprehensive global patent-search and analytics capabilities designed for IP professionals to derive insights from complex patent data. Though its complex workflows may require additional onboarding, it remains vital for novelty, freedom-to-operate (FTO), and competitive patent intelligence research.
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Starting Price
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PatBase Specifications
- Document Management
- Legal Research Integration
- Compliance & Security
- Reporting And Analytics
What Is PatBase?
PatBase, developed by Minesoft, is a leading global patent search and analysis platform designed by patent experts for IP professionals. It provides access to over 180 million patent publications from more than 100 patent-issuing authorities worldwide. The platform organizes records at the family or publication level, enabling efficient prior art searches, portfolio management, and competitive intelligence. PatBase supports tasks such as freedom-to-operate analysis, trend monitoring, and in-depth patent analytics, helping users make informed intellectual property decisions.
PatBase Pricing
PatBase pricing is customized and based on user needs and requirements.
A free trial is available.
PatBase Integrations
PatBase’s API enables access to full-text publications, patent family data, legal status, machine translations, and more, for integration into internal workflows.
Who Is PatBase For?
PatBase is primarily targeted at professional patent searchers and is used across a variety of industries and sectors for sophisticated patent research and IP strategy.
- Corporate intellectual property (IP) departments
- Patent attorneys and IP law firms
- Patent analysts
- Research and development (R&D) teams
Is PatBase Right For You?
PatBase is the preferred tool for organizations requiring the deepest global coverage, particularly for complex freedom-to-operate (FTO) and patent landscape analysis. It is backed by Minesoft, a specialist IP solutions provider since 1996, and is trusted by over 90,000 innovators globally. The robust and reliable servers are based in the UK, ensuring high security for sensitive IP data. The platform’s ability to handle complex boolean and command line searches, combined with its new AI enhancements, makes it ideal for enterprise-scale IP teams.
Still not sure about PatBase? Contact our support team at (661) 384-7070 for further guidance.
PatBase Features
Industry-Leading AI Search
The platform utilizes industry-leading AI search to expand natural language queries, helping professionals find subtle patents that traditional searches might miss. The AI learns user priorities and generates relevance scores to efficiently prioritize and share critical results with colleagues across legal and R&D teams.
Generative AI Claims Comparison
PatBase features generative AI to convert complex technical jargon within patent documents into straightforward language, making insights effortless for all users. This feature can compare patent claims to quickly find similarities, differences, and implications that might not be obvious through manual review.
Highly Flexible Intelligent Patent Search
This search feature allows users to efficiently pinpoint patent information at both the family or publication level. It supports simultaneous searching across both original and high-quality machine-translated text using flexible command features and limitless truncations, ensuring accurate and reliable results are delivered quickly to save time.
Powerful Integrated Analytics
The platform offers a suite of powerful integrated analytics with an interactive dashboard and intuitive charts. This enables users to track competitors, identify emerging trends, and create visual landscape reports to manage their patent portfolio. It is key for FTO searches and identifying technological white spots.
Patent Valuation And Citation Tools
PatBase provides an actionable intelligence from the patents section that includes a patent valuation score to evaluate portfolios from a new perspective. Combined with powerful citation tools, this helps users to monetize patents by identifying potential licensing and commercialization opportunities within the portfolio.
Pros And Cons of PatBase
Pros
High-speed site work ensures fast and efficient searching
Allows complex search algorithms using a command line
Counts results by patent family to prevent duplication
Cons
Features are scattered, leading to a complex interface
Analysis services provide superficial information only
PatBase Reviews
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Automotive, 11-50 employees
“Strong citation search”
Pros
It really stands out for how fast new publications are added, which makes the research feel much more current and dependable. The platform itself performs quickly and running searches is efficient. One feature I value a lot is being able to combine multiple parameters in a single search command, since that makes it possible to build very detailed research strategies around specific topics. It is also helpful that studies can be saved by search, results or history, that keeps everything better organized. The citation search is particularly strong and useful and the patent class detection wizard gives extra support when working on classification tasks. The analysis tools are a helpful addition and the company tree service is practical as well. Another major benefit is that results are counted by invention family, so filings for the same invention across multiple countries are treated as one result, which makes analysis much clearer.
Cons
This tool has plenty of functionality but those features are distributed across different menus so the interface ends up feeling complex and not very adaptive. A simpler layout would make a big difference, cause right now it can take weeks to learn, which means staff cannot start using it effectively right away. The analysis service also feels fairly superficial, since it is focused mostly on classes and does not provide much deeper insight. Keyword analysis is not strong enough either, it reduces its value for landscape analysis. the analysis tools are not sufficient for identifying empty technical areas and having a dedicated FTO analysis tool would be highly beneficial.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the typical users of PatBase?
PatBase is primarily designed for professional patent searchers and is widely used across industries by corporate IP departments, patent attorneys and law firms, patent analysts, and research and development (R&D) teams for advanced patent research and IP strategy.
What level of support does PatBase offer?
PatBase offers unlimited customer support, highly personalized training, and support from a team of patent professionals to ensure users maximize the tool's potential.
Does PatBase have a mobile app?
No dedicated mobile app is publicly documented; access is via web portal.
Does PatBase offer an API?
Yes, PatBase offers an API.
What language does PatBase support?
The user interface supports multiple languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. Machine translations of patent documents are also available.
What other apps does PatBase integrate with?
PatBase software offers an API that provides access to full-text publications, patent family data, legal status, machine translations, and more—allowing seamless integration into your internal workflows.
What types of pricing plans does PatBase offer?
PatBase pricing is customized based on each user’s specific needs and requirements. Request a personalized PatBase cost quote today to find the best solution for your business.