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              Connecting the Dots for IP Specialists and Decision Makers

              Access 500+ patent database sources for efficient patent search and analysis with Questel’s IP intelligence solutions

              Our market-leading tools and patent databases include: 

              • Orbit Intelligence, our powerful patent searching and analysis technology, with special modules including an AI-Classifier, a Prosecution Pack for grant statistics and detailed legal status analysis; and Chemistry (small modules);
              • Orbit BioSequence provides search and analysis for DNA and amino acids;
              • Orbit Insight is our business-oriented dashboard for innovators;
              • Orbit Express enables easy patent search and collaboration; and
              • Orbit Intellixir facilitates analysis from an extensive range of scientific sources; and 
              • Our new standard essential patent database and analytics tool.
                 

              Whichever solution you choose, you can rely on our integrated software and services to manage every stage of the innovation lifecycle.

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              Orbit Intelligence

              Accelerate patent analysis, unlock innovation insights, and make more informed decisions by choosing Questel’s Orbit Intelligence software. Orbit Intelligence is a leading global IP intelligence solution dedicated to patent research and analysis. More than 100,000 users trust the platform for its unrivaled access to accurate patent databases and scientific literature. 

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              Discover our Orbit Intelligence patent analytics and search software and other IP intelligence solutions
              Ask Sophia, your AI agent
              Reduce the time you spend crafting search queries and gain instant classifications, summaries, and analyses of relevant IP data and documents with Sophia, the industry’s first cross-platform AI assistant for IP. Available across our IP intelligence, innovation management, and workflow platforms, including Orbit Intelligence, Sophia harnesses cutting-edge generative AI capabilities to enable users to search and analyze data by simply asking Sophia questions in natural English.
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              AI-Classifier

              Orbit Intelligence Add-On

              Transform your patent classification process with our automatic patent classification module AI-Classifier. Based on machine-learning algorithms, AI-Classifier harnesses artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly search and classify patent documents according to your unique needs. Fully integrated into our IP Intelligence software, you can create as many AI classifiers as required and integrate them with existing alert results. 

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              Prosecution Pack

              Orbit Intelligence Add-On

              Gain in-depth understanding of relevant grant and examiner statistics to optimize your chances of grant with our Prosecution Pack module. This unique solution includes a legal status analyzer to simplify access to the legal status of patent applications at multiple patent offices worldwide and provide you with the insights you need to evaluate the probability of patent grant. Our Export link for IDS generator helps to generate invention disclosure statements (IDS) for patent searches conducted in our IP Intelligence solutions.

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              Chemistry

              Orbit Intelligence Add-On

              Designed for IP professionals in the field of organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences, our Chemistry module provides intuitive IP molecule search and analysis of more than 75 million patent documents. Simple to use and adaptable, you can quickly search all molecule types, retrieve all synonyms instantly, and rapidly locate mentions of molecules of interest.

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              Orbit BioSequence

              Choose our unique, all-in-one biosequence and chemistry module for comprehensive patent family search and analysis. Our DNA sequence patent database module has been created especially for IP professionals looking to compare DNA sequences or peptides and consolidates a vast database of sequences from patent and non-patent literature for easy search and analysis. 

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              Orbit Insight

              Explore new markets and opportunities in your industry with Insight, our comprehensive business tool for innovators. Fully automated and continually updated, Insight is the first innovation intelligence solution to provide a single source of access to the latest trends, patents, startups, competitors, partners, technologies, and publications. With the largest innovation database and unmatched user experience, Insight will help you predict emerging trends and competitor strategies.

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              Orbit Express

              Provide engineers, researchers, and managers with rapid and easy access to information in your technical domain with Express. This intuitive and secure system harnesses Questel's world-renowned patent database plus related scientific and technical publications, to help organizations optimize research and innovation and facilitate the protection of their IP.

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              Orbit Intellixir

              Analyze patent and scientific data instantly with Intellixir, Questel’s industry-leading solution for scientific search and competitive intelligence. Retrieve technical information (patents, scientific articles, clinical trials…) from both in-house and public sources, and create and export rich and interactive graphical presentations and on-demand reports and dashboards to share with searchers, managers, and technical or legal stakeholders.

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              Standard Essential Patent Database

              Search and analyze standard essential patent (SEP) data more effectively thanks to our new SEP Database. We have combined our comprehensive database with our proven essentiality check methodology and a powerful interface to enable you to identify potential SEP risks, emerging trends, and actionable insights.

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              Big Data

              Transforming Big Data Into Actionable Knowledge

              You can rely on Questel’s business intelligence software and integrated services for every stage of your asset’s life. We draw on machine learning powered by human cognition to harness 500+ data sources and 50+ data types. Our IP intelligence solutions cover a vast range of patent, trademark, scientific, technical, and business information, including:
              Transform Big Data into actionable knowledge with our IP Intelligence solutions

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              Patent databases

              125 million publications, 110 patent-issuing authorities, 96 million patents, 66 million patent families, patent classification codes (IPC, CPC, ECLA, USPCL, and Japanese FI & F-Term), proprietary normalized technology domains and sub-domains, patent and non-patent citation reports with relevancy indicators, and high-resolution patent drawings.

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              Scientific and defensive publications

              Covering 50,000 journals (Crossref, PubMed, DOAJ, Arxiv, Pascal-Francis), 322,000 clinical trials, 260,000 grants, and 200 targeted archives and university repositories, covering Life sciences, Computer sciences, Chemicals, Environment, Engineering, Physics, Materials, Telco, Earth Sciences, and more. 

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              Chemical data

              Covering 30 million chemical structures, 75 million documents, and recognizing IUPAC, trade names, and common names – ideal for Pharmaceutics.

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              Sequence patent database

              Covering 1,000,000 patents (Genbank & UniProt).

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              Standards

              Covering 155,000 patents declared essential to ETSI, IETF, IEEE, IEC, ITU, ISO, OMA, ANSI, ATIS, and TIA standards, plus 119,000 European Telecommunications Standards (ETSI), and more.

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              Legal status

              Covering 60 patent-issuing authorities, 118 trademark registers, and 64 design registers.

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              Licensing agreements, player profiles, litigations worldwide, industrial designs, trademarks, and business information.

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              Transform patent data into actionable knowledge with Questel’s range of specialist IP intelligence solutions. Our state-of-the-art tools help innovators, researchers, and technical teams to connect the dots between innovation and IP. Drawing on more than 500 data sources, including patent, scientific, technical, and business information, our innovation and patent databases combine machine learning and human analysis to deliver accurate and digestible results every time.
              Harness your patent data with Questel's IP Intelligence solutions
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