Jinfo's research into purchasing trends and preferences in the UK legal market is now in its ninth year and for this year's survey we aimed for a more refined approach to create closer alignment between our questions relating to what teams value and the satisfaction ratings given to specific...
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In the final part of Jinfo's research on purchasing patterns and preferences amongst the top 200 law firms in the UK, we look at the user experience. We focused on how user-friendly a product was, how easy it was to find information, its personalisation options, and whether collaboration was supported.
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In the third part of Jinfo's research on purchasing patterns and preferences amongst the top 200 law firms in the UK, we look at what participants value in relation to the technological features of key products in the legal landscape.
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In the second part of Jinfo's research on purchasing patterns and preferences amongst the top 200 law firms in the UK, we look at what participants value in the content of key products in the legal landscape.
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Read this year's research on purchasing patterns and preferences amongst the top 200 law firms in the UK. Find out how core legal products fit into the strategy, spending, and evolution of information services in UK law firms.
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Jinfo has been conducting in-depth product reviews for over 15 years and during that time we've been able to devise a model to help us better evaluate information products. Find out how our model can make the product evaluation process easier for you by saving time and informing your work with...
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Jinfo looked at PatSeer Premier, a global patent database and research platform with integrated analytics and collaboration capabilities, a few years ago and in this product review we take an in-depth look at PatSeer Pro from Gridlogics, a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform, used...
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In the final part of our full product review of PatSeer Pro from Gridlogics, a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform, we look at the product's value, the help and training available, competitors, such as Clarivate's Derwent Innovation, LexisNexis TotalPatent One, Questel's Orbit Intelligence, Innography, Clarivate Analytics, and Minesoft's PatBase. We find out what development plans its considering as well as its pricing options.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3224
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In the fourth part of our full product review of PatSeer Pro from Gridlogics, a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform, we take a more detailed look at its technology, in particular, the analytics, matching options, clustering and citations. We also explore VizMAP, its visualisation tool.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3224
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In the third part of our full product review of PatSeer Pro from Gridlogics, a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform, we take a more detailed look at its technology. In particular, we take an in-depth look at the user interface and broad range of search functionality, such as command-line search, number and semantic search, and how results can be viewed and data shared.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3224
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In the second part of our full product review of PatSeer Pro from Gridlogics, a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform, we look at its coverage, including full-text collections and how the content is organised, as well as the range of languages available.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3224
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PatSeer Pro is a web-based patent analytics and landscaping platform from Gridlogics, a global IP research and patent data technology solutions company. PatSeer Pro is used by anyone with a serious interest in patents, including patent searchers, information professionals, and law firms and in this first part of our full product review of PatSeer Pro we look at its key advantages, some background about the company and product, key competitors, such as Clarivate's Derwent Innovation, Minesoft's PatBase, LexisNexis TotalPatent One, and Questel's Orbit Intelligence. We also find out about Gridlogic's newest offering, ReleSense, an AI-driven NLP engine built for patent and scientific literature.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3224
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Clarivate Analytics is a global information and data company with products in the field of intellectual property and scientific information, predominantly for the scientific community in academic, industry and government. Its products are also valued by legal specialists. In 2019 Clarivate merged...
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AI, machine learning and data analytics is already transforming information work in the legal industry. James Mullan looks at use of technology in areas from contract review to due diligence, current awareness and search. He identifies key products already in use, from Signal to iManage Ravn, Kira and Brainspace.
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In the final part of our product review of Minesoft PatBase, a global patent database, we look at the help and training available, including its useful case studies which illustrate real-world usage of the product for differing use-cases, future development of the product, competitors such as Clarivate Analytics, Questel, and TotalPatent as well as its pricing options.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3094
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In part three of our product review of Minesoft PatBase, a global patent database, we look at its impressive range of search options and overall functionality, its analytics tools and the latest iteration of its analytics platform, which includes the ability to create charts and graphs, including 3D landscape, nested and semi-pies, polar charts and Venn diagrams as well as its content output options.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3094
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Part two of our product review of Minesoft PatBase, a global patent database, we take a closer look at its strengths and weaknesses and an in-depth look at its sources, in particular, its full-text collections as well as the languages available within the product.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3094
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We last reviewed Minesoft PatBase, an award-winning global patent database, nearly four years ago and since then the platform has undergone quite a few changes including the expansion of its full-text coverage and analytics tool. Read part one of our latest product review to find out about the product, who benefits from using it and what value it provides along with its recent partnership with Darts-ip and what effect this integration will have on the product.
Note: Full review (PDF) at https://web.jinfo.com/go/sub/report/3094
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Minesoft PatBase is an award-winning global patent database used by intellectual property professionals who rely on it for its business-critical patent information. It has undergone quite a few changes since we last reviewed the product a few years ago. Two notable changes include its analytics...
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How does Jinfo's benchmarking research apply to professional services and legal firms? What do similarities and comparisons between those sectors and with the whole dataset tell us about how the best information centres function or how you could use the data to sharpen up your service or request additional staffing? Rebecca Gebhardt Brizi reports.
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