As the year draws to a close, we take a look at everything we have built this year to help IP professionals save time and find what they are looking for faster. 2025 has been a year of growth and innovation, driven by one clear goal: making your work easier, more efficient, and more effective. From powerful new search capabilities to intelligent automation tools, each feature we’ve launched has been designed with your daily challenges in mind.
AI-Powered Intelligence: Making patent data more accessible
This year, we’ve put AI at the heart of our innovation strategy, not as a replacement for expertise, but as a powerful tool to enhance it. Our AI features are designed to eliminate guesswork, surface insights faster, and make complex patent analysis accessible to more people across your organisation.
The key breakthrough? Transparency and trust. We’ve moved beyond black-box AI solutions to create tools that show their work. When our AI returns a result, explains a connection, or summarises a dataset, you can see exactly why and how. Features like AI Explain and Document Chat don’t just deliver answers, they help you understand the reasoning behind them, building confidence in AI-assisted research while keeping human expertise firmly in control.
Perhaps most importantly, we’ve made complex patent analysis conversational. Instead of requiring specialised syntax or Boolean mastery, you can now ask questions in natural language and receive context-rich answers instantly. This isn’t about replacing patent professionals; it’s about freeing them from time-consuming manual review so they can focus on interpretation, strategy, and high-value analysis. AI-Powered Result Set Summaries deliver fast, comprehensive overviews. Exportable summaries help you surface what matters and drive action faster than ever before.
Concept Tree transforms patent searching into an intuitive visual experience. This feature converts natural language descriptions into interactive knowledge graphs that visualise technical components and their relationships as connected nodes you can explore and refine. Instead of wrestling with complex Boolean queries or relying on black-box AI searches, you can see and manipulate the actual technical structure of what you’re searching for. It’s patent searching that mirrors how you actually think about technology, as structured relationships, not random word combinations.
Smarter Workflows: From Bottlenecks to Collaboration
The traditional patent workflow creates an inevitable bottleneck: small teams of specialists become gatekeepers of patent knowledge, while R&D teams, inventors, and decision-makers wait in line for insights. This year, we’ve worked to fundamentally change that dynamic.
We’ve built tools that enable specialists to create reusable, shareable workflows, capturing not just search strategies, but institutional knowledge about what matters and why. These workflows can be adapted as your business evolves, ensuring that the patterns that work don’t need to be reinvented for every new project. The Workflow Builder in Origin exemplifies this approach, bringing together search queries, custom field schemes, and team collaboration into unified processes that can scale across your organisation. The result: valuable insights no longer get trapped in silos, and teams can work together more effectively.
Smarter workflows aren’t just about structure; they’re about reducing friction. We’ve enhanced alert training with AI, created tools that help teams move from reactive request-based support to proactive information sharing. The goal: valuable insights flow freely to the people who need them, when they need them.
Enhanced Collaboration: Breaking Down Silos
Patent intelligence has too often been trapped in individual tools, individual folders, and individual reports. This year, we’ve made collaboration a core focus, not just within teams, but across your entire organisation.
When PatBase and Origin work as one connected ecosystem, there’s no need for duplicate work or manual transfers. Your team stays in their preferred workspace while staying perfectly synchronised. When you add real-time collaborative dashboards where multiple people can work simultaneously and see changes as they happen, you eliminate the version control chaos that plagued traditional reporting.
Collaboration isn’t just about technology; it’s about storytelling. Our enhanced analytics capabilities help you create more informed narratives faster, with custom visualisations that capture both universal patent attributes and project-specific context. Whether you’re presenting to R&D leadership or coordinating with legal counsel, you can now turn complex patent data into clear, compelling stories that drive decisions.
Custom fields and folder-centric charts let you establish better context for your insights. With true simultaneous working, multiple colleagues can actively work on the same dashboard and observe changes as they happen, no more version control headaches or “Can you send me the latest?” emails.
Interactive Image Tools make complex patent visuals easier to work with. The new Interactive Image Parts List lets you move, edit, and save image labels for a cleaner, clearer view. The Family Tree helps you explore complex patent family structures with ease, tracking continuations and divisionals in real time with downloadable visuals featuring live links.
Competitive Intelligence: The Complete Picture
Understanding your competitive landscape requires more than just powerful search; it requires an extensive data set and the ability to see patterns others miss. This year, we’ve focused on ensuring you never lose sight of what matters because of data inconsistencies or incomplete coverage.
Competitive intelligence isn’t about collecting data; it’s about identifying opportunities, anticipating threats, and making informed strategic decisions. When you have a complete, accurate view of the landscape, you can spot white space, track competitor pivots, and validate your own innovation direction with confidence.
Our Refine options let you quickly build and expand your dataset with handpicked, relevant results. It’s a faster, more focused way to explore related technologies without losing context, perfect for keeping momentum in FTO reviews or competitive tracking.
These capabilities matter because competitive intelligence isn’t about collecting data—it’s about identifying opportunities, anticipating threats, and making informed strategic decisions. When you have a complete, accurate view of the landscape, you can spot white space, track competitor pivots, and validate your own innovation direction with confidence.
As we look ahead to 2026, we’re excited to continue pushing boundaries, exploring new technologies, and finding even more ways to save you time and deliver the insights that matter most. Thank you for being part of our community and for trusting us to support your critical work. Here’s to another year of innovation, efficiency, and success.
We’d love to hear which features have made the biggest impact on your workflow this year. Reach out and let us know what’s worked best for you.