Anaqua Press Release

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Ian Reid Anaqua 617-375-5808 ireid@anaqua.com

Anaqua Delivers High Productivity and Personalization
for Intellectual Asset Management

Next generation user interface technology provides new user experience for IP
practitioners

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Boston, May 6, 2009 — Anaqua, a leading provider of intellectual asset management (IAM) software and services, today introduced a new version of its ANAQUA IAM solution that provides new levels of productivity and personalization for the many different individuals and roles involved with IP administration and management in today’s corporate environment. The new release was unveiled to Anaqua’s clients at its annual User Conference last week.

ANAQUA now provides a suite of tools for each user to customize their IAM system environment to match their responsibilities, priorities and preferences.

• My Screen Layout allows a user to configure their screen display. With drag-&-drop, expand-&-close panels, each user can select what groups of vital data to display in what order for each matter type. The user can save this as their default layout, and change it at any time.
• My Searches - Next generation search screens also provide drag-&-drop panels for users to configure the display of search criteria fields. Search Results can be personalized by selecting and sorting which columns to display and conveniently exported for further analysis and distribution. Users can save column selections with the search criteria layout as reusable searches.
• My Useful Links – each user’s Home Page now has user-configurable links to websites, IP records, searches, reports and documents, as well as user defined RSS feeds.

In addition to the new personalization features, Anaqua is introducing new productivity features for power docketing users.

• One Page Docketing provides a single, unified, configurable screen with the information docketers need to complete their work without accessing multiple screens.
• Auto-complete Data Entry for contact names, organizations, projects, budgets and classifications improves efficiency and data quality by making it easy to use the approved values for this critical data.
• Enhanced Global Updates with flexible criteria for selecting records to update.

Additional features in the latest release include new data import tools and enhancements to ANAQUA’s unique classification capability for improved portfolio management. All the new features are being made available to ANAQUA Enterprise users immediately and to ANAQUA Express users in Q3 this year.

“These important enhancements are the result of an evolutionary architectural change that is taking place over a number of releases,” said Priya Iyer, Anaqua’s President. “We needed to keep the ANAQUA product at the leading edge of technology but we absolutely did not want to do this with a completely new product which forces the users to make painful transitions between incompatible product lines. Our clients are already seeing the benefits of this evolutionary approach that gives them seamless upgrades with new functionality”.

 

About Anaqua

Anaqua’s software helps leading companies grow and protect company value with an advanced, flexible IAM solution used by more than 20,000 users in over 100 countries to manage more than $500 billion in intellectual assets. Companies have saved tens of millions of dollars in annual IAM costs with Anaqua, while increasing licensing revenue, return on R&D and improving alignment of IA with business goals. The ANAQUA Enterprise IAM solution supports the full IA lifecycle from idea to monetization for all IA categories, including inventions, patents, trade secrets, brands and trademarks. Clients include Microsoft, NXP Semiconductors, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, Diageo, British American Tobacco, Eastman Chemical and The Coca-Cola Company. ANAQUA Express is a streamlined, more affordable solution for small and mid-sized IP teams. Anaqua is headquartered in Boston, MA, and has a European head office in London. For additional information please visit http://www.anaqua.com.