STN® Viewer™ is a web-based workflow productivity tool for patent information users.  It is designed for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express® answer sets. 

Product Overview

STN Viewer is the only patent evaluation tool integrated with the high-quality full-text patent databases on STN® and the precise searching capabilities and post-processing features of STN Express.

STN Viewer combines the power of STN with an easy-to-use interface for efficient patent management and evaluation.

Features and Benefits

With STN Viewer, you can:

• Seamlessly transition from patent searching to patent evaluation
• Quickly evaluate patents for relevancy
• Reduce the time needed to evaluate large patents
• Improve communication of patent evaluation results

Manage Patents:

• Organize full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets - sort and filter document sets and add custom labels, ratings, and annotations to individual documents
• Create custom patent information projects and share them electronically with patent agents, patent attorneys, research scientists, and others

Evaluate Patents:

• Display major sections, the entire full-text patent document, or view the original patent document via ChemPort®
• Access publication stage and patent family information, including legal status and designated states
• Locate terms of interest - specify concepts, phrases, and numbers for text highlighting
• Streamline navigation of large patents with the easy-to-use document highlighting map

Information on STN Viewer is also available in PDF.

Accessing STN Viewer
Supported web browsers:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer®, Version 6.0 or higher
• Mozilla® Firefox®, Version 1.0 or higher

To use STN Viewer:

1. Conduct a search in STN Express, Version 8.2, in one or more patent-containing databases
2. Click an L-number or a patent number from a displayed patent record and select Evaluate with STN Viewer 

When Evaluate with STN Viewer is selected, patent documents are retrieved from STN full-text patent databases and sent to STN Viewer, launched in your default web browser.  Existing patent projects in STN Viewer may be accessed directly via the Web.