Release notes

For what's in progress and planned next, see the Roadmap.

October 23, 2026

New Features

Semantic Search Without a Project in Connected Assistants — Examiners can run a semantic prior-art search from a connected assistant without creating or choosing a project; see MCP tools

Improvements

Reading Prior-Art Patents in Connected Assistants — Connected assistants read the complete text of a prior-art patent by default, rather than a shortened excerpt
Recommended Prior Art in Connected Assistants — Recommended prior art shows each document's publication date and whether it predates the application's priority date. A document filed before the application's filing date but published after it is marked conditional rather than not prior art
Family Citations — Fixed an issue where family citations described literature citations as definitively absent for applications with no identifiable patent family
PDF Citations in Connected Assistants — Fixed an issue where citation searches on long patents could each take about 20 seconds while the document's printed paragraph numbers were still being prepared

Claude users may be asked to approve Goveda Pro tools again after this update.

October 22, 2026

New Features

Gemini Enterprise — Organizations using Gemini Enterprise can connect it to Goveda Pro's tools. A Google Cloud administrator adds Goveda Pro as a custom MCP server data store; see Connect to Gemini Enterprise

Improvements

Legal Status — Fixed an issue where a US patent replaced by a reissue, and some granted patents that had lapsed, been revoked or been disclaimed, were shown as active. This applies in the workstation and in connected assistants
Publications and Patent Families — Fixed an issue where some applications showed their filing record as the first publication, where such records could appear in prior-art searches, and where patent family lists could include them
Priority Claims — Fixed an issue where some national-phase patents showed no priority claims although their publications list them, in connected assistants and through the API
PDF Citations in Connected Assistants — Fixed an issue where printed paragraph citations were unavailable for some chemistry and life-science publications and for some Chinese publications
Disconnecting Connected Assistants — Fixed an issue where disconnecting Goveda Pro from some assistants could fail, leaving the connection active until it expired

October 20, 2026

Improvements

Patents with Many Attachments — Fixed an issue where PDF paragraph citations could be missing for some patents with a very large number of attachments when their PDF was still being prepared
Connected Assistant Compatibility — Improved compatibility with newer assistant clients. Existing Goveda Pro connections continue to work after this update without reconnecting

October 19, 2026

Improvements

Keyword Filtering of Prior Art in Connected Assistants — Fixed an issue where keyword filtering of a large prior-art result set with OR expressions could run out of time. Keyword filtering of large result sets takes less time, and an invalid keyword pattern or parameter is named in the error message
Images in Document Tables — Fixed an issue where images inside document tables could show as broken in the Summary and Compare views
PDF Citations in Connected Assistants — Fixed missing paragraph citations for some scanned prior-art documents with many similarly worded paragraphs
Classification Suggestions in Connected Assistants — Classification lookups for a technology topic return more relevant codes, without duplicate codes
Legal Status — Patent legal status reflects expiry dates and recorded rejection or withdrawal events, in the workstation and in connected assistants
Classification Filters — Search filters by CPC or IPC classification include the subgroups beneath the selected code
Patent Records — Patent records show more complete names, consistent grant types, corrected priority numbers and cleaner translated text, and search filters accept either letter case
Patent Reference Lookups in Connected Assistants — Reference lookups include publication dates and every publication named by a resolved reference
Patents with Many Attachments — Fixed an issue where patents with a very large number of attachments showed no PDF or drawings, and where preparing their PDF paragraph citations could stay in progress for hours before failing

To use keyword matches in classification lookups, refresh the Goveda Pro connection in your assistant after this update.

October 16, 2026

Improvements

Patent Descriptions — Fixed missing description paragraphs when reading Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese patents
PDF Citations in Connected Assistants — Fixed missing paragraph citations when consecutive numbered passages appear on the same line

October 15, 2026

New Features

PDF Citations in Connected Assistants — Patent content searches can return the paragraph number printed on the published PDF for use in a written opinion. Where paragraph numbers are absent, citations can identify the page and lines, or the column and lines for US patents

Improvements

Prior-Art Search Results — Fixed an issue where a prior-art search whose filters matched nothing was marked as failed, and where the initial search for a newly submitted application could include the application's own family

Claude users may be asked to approve Goveda Pro tools again after this update.

October 13, 2026

Improvements

Patent Details — Patent details show each application's current owners and a more complete legal history, and the Application No field shows the application number in the issuing office's format (for example US14835694). This applies in the workstation and in connected assistants
Original-Language Terms in Chinese and Japanese Patents — Fixed an issue where connected assistants found no matches when searching a Chinese or Japanese patent's text for terms written in its original language
Search Result Pages — Search result pages requested through the API hold up to 100 results per request, and larger page sizes are rejected. Fixed an issue where requesting a very large page could make the service briefly unavailable

October 9, 2026

Improvements

Initial Search for New Applications — Fixed an issue where the initial prior-art search for a newly submitted application failed after the October 8 update
Authority Filter EU — A search filter on authority EU is rejected as invalid instead of returning no results. Use EP for European patents or EM for EU designs

October 8, 2026

Improvements

Searches, Document Links and Notifications During Maintenance — Improved how searches, document links and notifications hold up during maintenance
Patent Drawings and Knowledge Base Images in ChatGPT — In ChatGPT's Chat mode, connected assistants can look at patent drawings and Knowledge Base images after you allow the file that ChatGPT asks about. If you decline, the assistant offers a link to view the image yourself

October 7, 2026

Improvements

Correct Expiry Estimates for Chinese Design Patents — Fixed an issue where Chinese design patents filed on or after June 1, 2021 showed an estimated expiry date 10 years after filing instead of 15 years
Steadier Assistant Connections During Maintenance — Connected assistants are more likely to stay signed in during maintenance
Patent Drawings Still Being Prepared — Connected assistants wait briefly for patent drawings that are still being prepared, so drawing lists and images are less likely to fail on first use
Full-Text Downloads With Oversized Images — Fixed an issue where a patent full-text download could fail when one of its images was too large to prepare. Such images are marked as unavailable
Background Work and Notifications During Maintenance — Improved recovery of background analysis and live notifications during maintenance

October 2, 2026

Improvements

Fewer Interruptions During Maintenance — Reduced interruptions to search requests and background analysis during maintenance

September 30, 2026

Improvements

Full-Text Downloads for Patents Without Image Links — Fixed an issue where the full-text ZIP download could fail and full text could suggest retrying image retrieval for patents without available image links

September 28, 2026

Improvements

Clearer Retry Guidance for Connected Assistants — Connected assistants receive retry guidance when a service is temporarily unavailable

September 25, 2026

Improvements

Larger Knowledge Base Documents — Fixed an issue where very large reference PDFs added to a Knowledge Base could fail to finish processing

September 24, 2026

Improvements

More Patent Reference Formats — Patent lookups in the workstation and connected assistants support more reference formats and ask you to choose when a reference matches multiple patents
Earlier PCT Publication Details — PCT projects can fill in their WO publication details during setup. Other analysis can continue when references are missing or conflicting

September 23, 2026

Improvements

Notification Reconnection — Live notifications can reconnect after extended service interruptions without a page refresh
Background Processing Recovery — Improved recovery of background processing during planned maintenance
More Reliable PCT Citations — PCT citation results now handle Korean publication numbers correctly and keep available citations when individual references cannot be retrieved

September 19, 2026

Improvements

More Complete Recommended Prior Art — Fixed missing citation evidence in Recommended Prior Art for some applications
Steadier Citation Viewing — Switching between text and PDF views now keeps the citation panel toolbar in place

September 17, 2026

New Features

Complete Document Content in Connected Assistants — Connected assistants can now retrieve complete patent, application, and Knowledge Base content as Markdown when a full document is needed, while still supporting focused reads by section
Patent Content With Images — Patent Markdown now keeps drawings and other in-document images where they belong in the text. You can download a portable bundle when you need the text and images together
Download Knowledge Base Markdown — Download the complete extracted content of a Knowledge Base document as a Markdown file from either the document list or its review page

Improvements

Cleaner Knowledge Base Reads — Recognised page headers, footers, and printed page numbers no longer appear in Knowledge Base reads or searches, while substantive text and footnotes remain available
Simpler Document Exports — Patent, application, and Knowledge Base document actions are grouped into a compact Export menu, with copy, Markdown download, and portable-download options where available
More Reliable Patent Records — Patent records and previews handle temporarily unavailable source data and high request volume more reliably
More Efficient Assistant Image Reads — Connected assistants can work with selected patent images without repeatedly carrying the same temporary links

September 12, 2026

New Features

Explicit Patent Selection in Connected Assistants — When a patent reference is missing or ambiguous, connected assistants can now show matching records so you can choose the intended patent instead of continuing with an assumed match

Improvements

Clearer Project Selection in Connected Assistants — When an application number matches multiple Projects, connected assistants show the available Projects and wait for you to choose

September 6, 2026

Improvements

More Complete Assistant-Added PDFs — Documents added through connected assistants now open with complete page information in the project viewer
Smoother Patent PDFs — Patent PDFs load completely, while long documents open, scroll, and navigate more smoothly
Faster, More Reliable Drawings — Drawings open and switch faster, background-ready drawings appear without a manual refresh, thumbnails remain complete after resizing, and image links can be copied

September 3, 2026

New Features

Clearer Application Document Submissions — Application documents now process automatically. Before submission, you can correct document types and retry files that need attention; after submission, the document set becomes read-only and analysis starts when every document is ready
Share Patent Images With Connected Assistants — View, copy, and share patent drawings and inline images while keeping each image linked to its source patent
Organization Audit Activity — Organization administrators can filter and inspect business and security activity, then export the current results as CSV
Profile Photos — Choose a profile photo that follows your account across sessions and organizations

Improvements

A More Consistent GoVeda Experience — The landing page, Projects, Knowledge Sources, Settings, and examination results now use clearer navigation and a more consistent visual language
Faster, More Reliable Patent Viewing — Patent drawings load as they approach the screen, open and switch faster, recover from temporary failures, and Japanese text in patent PDFs displays correctly
Fewer Interrupted Sessions — Session refreshes and temporary connection failures are less likely to interrupt work in the workstation or connected assistants

August 27, 2026

Improvements

More Reliable Document Processing — Documents now recover from isolated processing issues, with clearer guidance when uploaded information does not match the Project
More Accurate Patent Search and Project Lookups — Patent filters and Project lookups now handle more real-world classification and application-number formats reliably

August 19, 2026

Improvements

More Reliable Knowledge Base Processing — Files whose extracted content or images previously failed to display now process reliably. Knowledge Sources added before this release need to be deleted and re-added once
Fewer Interrupted Sessions — Sessions that can no longer be refreshed now prompt you to sign in again and return you to the page you were on, instead of stopping on an error page
More Reliable Text Extraction — Documents containing repeated page headers, footers, footnotes, or page numbers now finish processing without losing extracted content
Consistent Project Document Handling — Project documents now use one consistent path for upload, processing, download, and deletion
Fewer Missing Abstracts — Fixed an issue where some PCT applications were missing their abstract after document processing

August 17, 2026

New Features

Knowledge Base — Add reference PDFs to a Project, review extracted content alongside the original PDF, and copy Markdown or download a portable bundle for reuse. Learn more
Complete Content Reads by Default — completion_required now defaults to true for patent and application content, so connected assistants continue until all requested text is read unless a bounded read is requested
Patent Markdown Export — Copy or download complete patent text as Markdown directly from the patent workspace
Knowledge Base MCP Tools — Claude and ChatGPT can now list Project sources, search completed reference PDFs, read source-attributed passages, and retrieve extracted images. View the tools

Improvements

One Result Per Patent Family — Prior-art searches no longer show multiple publications from the same patent family
Open Original Project PDFs — Examiners can open and download the original PDF for Project documents after processing
Reliable Large-Document Processing — Large Project documents continue processing without document-status checks timing out

August 4, 2026

New Features

Use Application Numbers With Project Tools — In the assistant, use a Singapore application number to identify a Project. If another Project already uses that application number, Goveda asks before creating a duplicate

Improvements

Create Projects Before Register Data Is Available — A valid Singapore application number can create a Project even when the official register has no matching record. Upload either PF1 or PF37 to supply its bibliographic information
Connect the Assistant Once — After connecting Goveda MCP, use your organization's tools immediately without signing in to the workstation first

July 31, 2026

Improvements

Accurate Keyword Highlighting — The patent viewer's highlighter now matches multi-word phrases, and each keyword reports its own hit count instead of a shared total

July 30, 2026

New Features

Single Sign-On Documentation — Setting up single sign-on for your organization is now documented end to end: connecting your identity provider, choosing whether people join automatically on first sign-in or by invitation, testing the connection, and requiring it for everyone. See Single sign-on
Contact — A Contact entry in the site navigation, so you can reach us from any page rather than only from the sign-in screen

July 29, 2026

New Features

Organizations — Goveda Pro is now organized around your workspace. Members are invited by an administrator, work together on the organization's cases, and can belong to more than one organization and switch between them. Administrators manage members from a Members page
Sign In With Your Work Email — Enter your work email and Goveda Pro recognises which organization you belong to and takes you to the right sign-in method. There is no organization to pick and no separate workspace address to remember
Enterprise Single Sign-On — Organizations can connect their own identity provider and let members sign in with their existing company account. An administrator sets this up from Settings without contacting us and tests it end to end before turning it on. Members who join this way can work on any of the organization's cases, not only the ones they created
Invitation-Only Access — Access to an organization is by invitation. Signing in with a personal Google account is no longer offered
Open Results Straight From the Assistant — Open a project, its documents, its analysis results, or a completed prior-art search directly in the workstation from a link in the assistant
Narrow Prior-Art Results You Already Have — Filter an existing prior-art result set, either with the same keyword expressions used on patent pages or with a plain-language relevance query, and revisit the saved set later

Improvements

Rebuilt Unity of Invention Page — The verdict and the independent analyses behind it now sit side by side, each analysis can be read in full, and reasoning that was previously produced but never shown is now visible. Results opened from the assistant link through to the full analysis, and a verdict flagged for review no longer reads as though the decision were already made
Faster Prior-Art Searches — A search you start returns completed results in a single request while automatic recommendations continue in the background. Filtering large result sets completes reliably, and repeated filtering returns faster while preserving ordering and pagination
Citation Links — Family literature citations include a direct link to the cited work, or a focused search when no direct identifier exists
Readable Account Names — Accounts show a proper name — the one your company's identity provider publishes where available — instead of a full email address
Clearer Sign-In Problems — When sign-in cannot be completed, the page explains what happened and offers a way out instead of leaving you stuck. Sessions no longer drop shortly after signing in, and opening several pages at once no longer signs you out
Assistant Document Uploads — Uploading documents through the assistant's document panel no longer fails, and the document-type list is complete for every file
Shorter Unity Reports — Unity of Invention reports end after the substantive conclusion and omit obsolete procedural guidance

July 20, 2026

New Features

Public Patent Viewer — Anyone can look up a patent by publication or application number and read its record without signing in: core bibliographic data, legal events, citations, family, drawings, and the PDF. Records open in a consistent searchable workstation with split views and improved family, legal, and citation navigation
Keyword Highlighter — Highlight several keywords at once in different colours while reading a patent, each with its own hit count and its own lane on a position map you can use to jump between matches. Keywords match whole words by default and support truncation, proximity within a block, and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
Three-Level Unity Verdict — Lack of Unity now reports pass, needs-review, or objection instead of a single yes/no. Borderline cases surface the key question and a suggested next step rather than being forced to one side, in the workstation, in the assistant, and in the API response
In-Product Feedback — When you hit an unsupported capability, an inaccurate result, or an unrecoverable failure, you are offered a ready-to-submit feedback draft instead of having to report it separately

Improvements

Drawings on Their Own Page — Extracted drawings open on a dedicated page with the selected drawing preserved, and leaving fullscreen no longer leaves an invisible layer blocking the page
Reliable Structured Content — Patent pages display tables, formulas, chemical structures, and embedded images reliably across single and dual views
Cleaner Paragraph References — Descriptions no longer show placeholder paragraph markers when the source document has no citable paragraph number
Patent Links Open in the Workstation — Publication numbers in results, exports, and Lack of Unity conclusions now open the patent record in Goveda Pro rather than the public website
More Dependable Unity Analysis — Lack of Unity analysis no longer fails on certain applications, and invention groups are listed starting from the lowest claim number
Consistent API Key Connections — Connecting with an API key now works the same way across browsers, including where an earlier sign-in to the same account was still active

July 11, 2026

New Features

Create a Project from an Application Number — Enter a Singapore application number and the project's bibliographic data is retrieved from the official register on the spot, with no PF1/PF37 upload. Choose the source when you create the project; file upload remains the default
Official Bibliographic Data — Applicants, IPC classifications, deemed filing date, and application type (Normal / PCT national phase / Divisional) now come from the Singapore patent register. Applicants and IPC were previously unavailable, and unpublished applications now carry complete bibliographic data
Search Within a Patent — Ask which paragraph of a prior art document discloses a feature, instead of reading the whole document. Hits come back ranked, with their paragraph numbers
Fetch Specific Paragraphs — Paste paragraph numbers back to retrieve those paragraphs in full, so a citation can go straight into a written opinion as "D1 [0034] discloses…"
Native Paragraph Numbers for Non-US Patents — Paragraph numbers now match the printed PDF for Japanese, Korean, German, and French documents. Numbers shown with a p prefix are positional and may not match the printed document
Family and Citation Scope — Choose between the strict same-priority family and the extended family on patent, family, and citation lookups
Tool-Call Audit Trail — Every tool call, including failed authentication, is recorded for security and compliance. Parameters are redacted and result content is never stored

Improvements

Divisional Search Accuracy — More accurate prior art search results for divisional applications
Refined Non-Patent Literature Counts — Search-report pointers and empty placeholder rows are no longer counted as non-patent literature
Family Lists in Citation Order — Family members are ordered the way an examiner would cite them (US A-publications first, since they carry paragraph numbers), so the first entry is the one best suited to cite
Clickable Patent Links — Publication numbers across tool results, CSV exports, and Lack of Unity conclusions now link to their patent page
Summaries for Very Long Applications — Applications with very large descriptions now produce a summary instead of failing
Bibliographic Accuracy — Filing dates, invention titles, priority claims, and PCT numbers are taken from the register rather than read off a scanned form

Action required for MCP users. Two citation tools were renamed — get_office_citations → get_application_family_citations and get_office_npl_citations → get_application_family_npl_citations. The old names no longer exist. Reconnect or use "Refresh tools list" in your client to pick up the new names, and update any prompt that hard-codes the old ones. The Lack of Unity field has_uoi is now has_lou.

Family and citation lookups now default to a narrower scope — the strict same-priority family, and a patent's own backward citations. Lists will be shorter than before. To widen the scope when you need full coverage, pass scope="extended" to the backward citation tools (get_patent_backward_patent_citations, get_patent_backward_npl_citations, get_application_family_citations) or family_scope="extended" to the patent and family lookups. Forward citations (get_patent_forward_citations) already default to the full family.

A patent's description is now a list of paragraphs, not a single string. Each paragraph carries its number. If you read description from the MCP response in your own code, it now comes back as a list — update any script that assumed a string.

July 4, 2026

New Features

Office NPL Citations — Non-patent literature cited by examiners at other offices, deduplicated and cleaned of search-report boilerplate
Lack of Unity Analysis Card — Interactive card showing the LOU verdict and invention groups, with one-click copy of Section 4 text
Classification Lookup — Find authoritative CPC/IPC codes from a keyword, symbol, or plain-language description
Project Lifecycle Tools — Mark projects complete, reopen, or delete them without leaving the chat

Improvements

Full-Text Family Representatives — Office citations now surface the best full-text family member (US A1 > WO > EP > …), no manual family look-up needed
Read Full Documents — Long texts continue past the 8,000-character cap via an adjustable budget, cursors, and per-section "Load more"
Full Family & Legal Status — Family and legal-status lists paginate, so even 500+-member families are fully reachable
Compact Publication Numbers — Outputs now use WO2015179075A1 (Google Patents style); both formats accepted on input
Lack of Unity Alignment — "UoI" renamed to "LOU" and Section 4 defaults to first-invention examination, per IPOS Examination Guidelines
Smarter Search Filters — The application's effective date is the default search ceiling; new classification (IPC/CPC) and patent-status filters
In-Widget Patent Cards — Click a search hit to open the full patent card in place, without losing the results list
Amended Documents Respected — Content reading, in-application search, and sequence analysis consistently use amended claims and description
Organization-Bound Credentials — OAuth connections and API keys are pinned to their organization; existing MCP connections need a one-time reconnect