• Research
  • Web client

Clear Separation of Projects in the Search

More security for evaluations: Search queries are now clearly separated from the project context.

Release date

April 28, 2026

Version

26.4.0

Feature type

Improvement

Type of User

Light User

Clear Assignment of Search and Project

With this update we haveimportant conceptual Improvement In the web application, which ensures greater transparency and security in the evaluation of patents. What has changed?

It used to be like this: As soon as you opened a project, it was automatically set as the active project. If a search was then carried out, the evaluations automatically referred to this project - even if this was not intended. As a result, it could happen that evaluations were inadvertently added in the wrong context, e.g. in a monitoring task,

New Logic for more Control

Effective immediately:
Search queries are executed by default in the standard search project
The displayed evaluation fields always refer to this standard project
The currently active project is displayed at the top right
The project can be deliberately changed at any time
This ensures that evaluations are no longer made unintentionally in the wrong project.

Search areas affected
- This change affects all central search functions:
- Patent Number Search
- Intelligent Search
- Simplified Search
- Folder Search

Webanwendung – Klare Trennung von Projekten bei der Suche