Aurigin Systems Inc and ClearForest announced a strategic partnership that lets the two companies capitalize on their respective intellectual property (IP) management strengths to deliver a complete solution for current and future customers. The integration of Aurigin's Aureka Gold software with ClearResearch, ClearForest's enterprise application for in-depth search and analysis, enables customers to access more relevant information in less time, significantly increasing productivity while providing previously unavailable insights to information residing in multiple, seemingly unrelated patent documents. The integration also lets major corporations read through hundreds of thousands of patent documents and deliver a variety of analytic capabilities.

Aureka Gold's innovation asset management capability will integrate with ClearResearch to leverage expansive analytical capabilities to current and future customers of both companies. Innovation Asset Management is the practice of analyzing a company's portfolio of valuable ideas, patents, products and processes within its business context, together with its competitor's portfolios.

The Dow Chemical Company, the first customer to use the new integrated solution, has been using both Aurigin and ClearResearch's products extensively. According to Phil Murray, from the Polyurethanes Intellectual Capital Management of The Dow Chemical Company and Gary McNamee, of the Business Intelligence Center of The Dow Chemical Company, "The integration between Aurigin and ClearResearch enables the reliable, timely, and cost-effective assessment of Aurigin's millions of patent records with ClearResearch's powerful linguistics and semantics algorithms. Combined with Aurigin's suite of tools such as ThemeScape and Reporting 2000 Module, this new interface provides a significant enhancement in our ability to drill down from the one hundred thousand foot level to technology maps that are relevant to our businesses and projects."

Aurigin and ClearForest have collaborated to offer an "out of the box" solution which significantly reduces the cost of deploying advanced logic for mining Aureka Gold's patent data. Current and future Aureka Gold customers will be able to send native documents for compilation to ClearResearch, and subsequently deliver the documents back to the Aureka Gold platform for further analysis. Furthermore, Aureka Gold continues to integrate third party software, such as ClearResearch, into its open platform. This new capability will offer customers an enhanced view of the patent analysis and will effectively integrate Aureka Gold and ClearResearch to develop advanced logic for mining Aureka's patent data.

ClearResearch is a sophisticated research application designed to help research professionals gain powerful insights from large document collections, and will provide the automation of Patent Research through this partnership. The technology underlying ClearResearch reads large amounts of text, and identifies key entities, facts and events, creating a knowledge base that is ideally suited for search and analysis. Its sophisticated analytics provide unique insights into relationships across multiple documents and its visual maps give you the 30,000-foot view, yet allow you to click down to the document level at any time.