Creating a better environment for collaboration is one of the main pillars of our development strategy. At Minesoft, we’re constantly looking for ways to make sharing information and telling stories easier and better across your team.
The challenge: Disconnected workflows & lost knowledge
IP teams invest significant time across their organizations, assessing patents and adding institutional knowledge but then, struggle to capitalise on all that effort. Formal processes like freedom-to-operate searches or licensing opportunity identification require input from different teams and users, yet the tools often create friction rather than flow.
The result? Valuable insights get trapped in silos. Teams duplicate work. And the story your data could tell never gets told.
Now, Origin changes that.
Building workflows: Bringing teams together
Collaboration often comes form formal processes or workflows, these processes aim to engage different personas or business unites to gather their expert knowledge and opinions to inform better decisions. The processes rely on catching the right data and pushing information from user-to-user with each adding value on the way.
We’ve created a workflow builder that brings together the building blocks of a workflow to foster better enhance of information between teams. You’ll be able to use existing components, such as search queries or custom field schemes, or build them from scratch at each stage of the sequence.
We simplify the complex by walking through each of the decision points and clarifies the tasks that each user will undertake. This can be coupled with the Origin AI Classifier to enhance and accelerate the review process.
Recognizing that these workflows don’t stop at the end of the build. Once you’ve put all of the pieces together we create a workflow artefact that can be shown to others and managed into the future as your business and processes adapt.
Why it matters:
- Get everyone on the same page: Clear task assignments mean no confusion about who does what
- Reuse what works: Build once, adapt as needed, share across teams
- Keep pace with change: Workflows evolve with your business, not against it
Reporting, Analysis and Storytelling: Turn Effort Into Insight
Through the new custom data analytics in Origin you’ll be able to create a more informed narrative for your patent analysis, faster. You’ll be able to establish better context for your insights with both custom field and folder-centric charts.
Custom fields allow you to capture universal attributes of patents, using your own lens to determine categories that make sense to you. This enables enhanced apples-to-apples comparisons of portfolios and improved competitive benchmarking.
Folders, labels and ratings allow you to apply a project-centric context for your analysis, a patent may be mission critical for one project but irrelevant for another.
True simultaneous working takes collaboration even further. An analyst can share a dashboard with a colleague, then they can both be actively working on it and observe changes as they happen. No more version control headaches. No more “Can you send me the latest?” emails.
Why it matters:
- Speed up storytelling: Create informed narratives faster with custom analytics
- Work together, in real time: See changes as they happen when collaborating on dashboards
- Make knowledge stick: Capture institutional insights in ways that persist and scale
Perfect for:
Patent searchers, analysts, IP attorneys, R&D teams, innovation managers – anyone who needs to collaborate across teams and turn patent data into actionable intelligence.
Creating a better environment for collaboration is one of the main pillars of our development strategy. We look for ways across the user journey to make it easy to share information or tell better stories. These features represent our commitment to making that happen.