BizInt Smart Charts and New STN® Collaboration Extends and Optimizes Intellectual Property Search Workflow

COLUMBUS, Ohio and ORANGE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and BizInt Solutions, Inc. are excited to announce a collaboration empowering search professionals using new STN to seamlessly transition from precision searching to customized reporting and analysis for Intellectual Property (IP) research, discovery and decision support. Today's launch of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 4.0 and the August 1 launch of the latest version of new STN make this possible with the introduction of a new data transfer format that optimizes integration of STN search results into the culminating, post‑search analysis stage of the IP search workflow.

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents enables individuals to aggregate, examine, refine and act upon information from myriad patent information resources. New STN, operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe worldwide, is a modern, web-based search solution for IP professionals, offering access to essential, curated content through an intuitive, project-oriented interface. By linking the reporting and analytical expertise of BizInt Smart Charts with the unparalleled content and search power of new STN, search professionals can now more effectively find the answers and insight needed to drive sound business decisions.

"STN provides access to the most complete collection of high value patent and related sci-tech content in the world, and as such, is the preferred platform for professionals to make informed business decisions to protect intellectual property," said Chris McCue, CAS vice president marketing. "Now, with BizInt Smart Charts, this innovative new workflow solution enables STN users to more efficiently analyze, integrate, and share the high-quality, business-critical information they get from STN, significantly increasing the value of that information across their entire organization."

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 4.0 supports new STN value-added bibliographic databases, including CAplus℠ and Derwent World Patents Index^® (DWPI℠) from Thomson Reuters, non-patent literature databases and all full-text patent databases. Support for additional databases, including substance and structure databases, will be added in upcoming releases of BizInt Smart Charts.

"Innovation-focused organizations around the world have used BizInt Smart Charts and STN for years to create high-quality, customized reports integrating data from IP databases," said Diane Webb, president of BizInt Solutions, Inc. "We are pleased to work with the STN development team to deliver an enhanced experience to our mutual user community, and we look forward to extending the benefits of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents to more STN users."

About BizInt

BizInt Solutions, Inc. develops BizInt Smart Charts software to help information analysts create, customize and distribute competitive intelligence reports and visualizations from drug pipeline, clinical trial, patent and IP sequence databases. The BizInt Smart Charts product family is used by pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical and device/diagnostics companies worldwide to support product lifecycle planning and portfolio management.

About STN

The choice of patent experts, only STN^® offers access to trusted scientific and technical information including the authoritative chemistry content from CAS and patent content from Thomson Reuters' Derwent World Patents Index^®. Intellectual property professionals and patent examiners at the world's major patent offices and research organizations rely on STN for their information needs. STN is operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe worldwide.

About CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world's authority for chemical information and related solutions. Dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry, the CAS team of highly trained scientists finds, collects and organizes all publicly disclosed substance information, creating the world's most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide. Scientific researchers and patent professionals around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS that enable discovery and facilitate workflows.

About FIZ Karlsruhe

FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (www.fiz-karlsruhe.de) is a not-for-profit limited liability company and the largest non-academic information infrastructure institution in Germany. As such, its public mission is to develop and provide products and services for an information infrastructure to science, research, and industry. FIZ Karlsruhe strives to strengthen the transfer of knowledge in Germany and abroad and to support the promotion of innovation. FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association, which comprises almost 90 institutions involved in research activities and/or the development of scientific infrastructure.

SOURCE Chemical Abstracts Service