You are a developer, lawyer, engineer, project manager or inventor, and you have to look after the IP rights of your own or foreign products. If so, Ipilion could be the ideal tool for you.

Ipilion offers a working environment that allows you to search for publications in public databases, download and manage them. This is integrated into a project management interface so that you can manage patent literature and non-patent literature. Everything can be organized as you wish. You can bookmark and manage tasks, search through already uploaded publications, and export and import projects and folders.

Ipilion is now available under Free License. Free License is applicable for non-commercial usage (e.g. students) and evaluation purposes. Ipilion Free has no functional limations in comparisson to Ipilion Core.

To search, you only need one expression (pattern); not separate ones for each database. You can search simultaneously in all (if you wish) of the databases. After the search, you just need to download the patent data you really need. This can be from the database of your choice, or automatically chosen by Ipilion (e.g., text by USPTO, Biblio by Espacenet).

Should this be of interest for you, you will probably have many questions:

• This overview may give you some first insights.
• Look at the list of the main funtions.
• Check whether your computer meets the minimum requirements (presumably it does).
• Check whether you accept possible restrictions.
• Please look at tthe other articles.
• Download and install the free version of Ipilion (You do not need to register).