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 Version 8.2 answer sets.

With STN Viewer you can:

• Seamlessly move 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      

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

Key features include:

• Create  custom patent information projects with patent documents retrieved from STN full-text patent databases - via STN Express
• Share patent information projects with others
• View  major sections, publication stages, and family members
• Define  concepts, phrases, and numbers for patent document highlighting
• Navigate  the entire patent document via a highlighting map      

Unique features include advanced highlighting capabilities with unsurpassed truncation options and flexible document labelling to efficiently manage patent information projects.

To use STN Viewer simply conduct a search in STN Express Version 8.2 in one or more patent-containing databases, then select Evaluate with STN Viewer.