PatentCafe® announces the new release of REFPAT™, the patent bibliographic interface for Reference Manager®.

Patent data management has become one of the most vital R&D and legal functions in technology-driven companies. Managing large collections of internal reference data for R&D, patent research and patent applications drafting is an arduous and error-prone task. Referencing internal patent collections without automation tools is costly, and more importantly puts the corporation at high risk of not finding the best references to cite.

REFPAT eliminates the time and expense Reference Manager customers invested in scanning, re-typing, labeling, attaching metadata, and manually importing patent data into the Reference Manager collection. With REFPAT, Reference Managers can now easily extract patent bibliographies, full text and PDF images from PatentCafe's ICO Global Patent Database, seamlessly identify documents with internal tracking numbers, add METADATA, and import directly into Reference Manager. REFPAT users can import from one, to thousands of patent documents into Reference Manager in single or batch mode. PatentCafe's new REFPAT is the latest in a continuing string of important patent data utilities for its Intellectual Capital Office™ (ICO) Suite intellectual property management solutions.

ICO is the industry's leading software for patent, non-patent, knowledgebase and scientific literature data management, and the only enterprise solution containing the world's largest international patent database web-searchable using advanced Latent Semantic Analysis natural language search technology.

Reference Manager, published by Thomson ISI ResearchSoft Division, (Thomson ISI®) is the industry standard software tool for quickly locating and managing bibliographic data in internally maintained libraries and scientific collections.

Reference Manager automates the creation of bibliographies for over 1,000 scholarly publications. PatentCafe's REFPAT now provides the connectability to its robust international collections of patents and published patent applications. Thomson's Reference Manager software is distributed worldwide to support research activities in all leading academic, corporate and government institutions. For more information on PatentCafe's REFPAT, or any of its other premier patent management and research tools, visit http://www.patentcafe.com