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May 19, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate Launches AI-based RiskMark to Accelerate Trademark. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the launch of RiskMark, an AI-powered solution combining global CompuMark trademark data and Darts-ip litigation data to evaluate trademark risk. Leveraging 172.5 million trademark records spanning 188 jurisdictions and over 5 million global court and administrative records, RiskMark combines generative and predictive AI to transform the process of assessing similarity risk based on relevant evidence. This enables trademark professionals to make strategic decisions and craft arguments with greater speed and confidence. The solution generates near-instant results on visual, phonetic, connotation, and goods and services relatedness to accelerate informed decision-making. [Full Announcement].

May 15, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate report reveals top trademark portfolios. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, released the Trademark filing trends 2025 report, analyzing ten key trademark registers worldwide: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Mainland China, Japan, and Australia. The report reveals the top 20 largest local and foreign-based trademark portfolios in each region and the law firms managing the largest trademark portfolios. [Full Announcement].

May 9, 2025

Clarivate Dr Nandita Quaderi from Clarivate named as the incoming co-chair of United2Act Against Paper Mills. Dr Nandita Quaderi, Senior Vice President and the Editor-in-Chief for Web of Science at Clarivate, has been named as the incoming co-chair of United2Act Against Paper Mills, an international coalition of stakeholders taking decisive action against the collective challenge of paper mills in scholarly publishing. First convened in 2023, this coalition of research institutions, publishers, investigative researchers, universities, and publishing infrastructure leaders is a joint effort of the Committee on Publication Ethics and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. Nandita will lead United2Act alongside Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Research Professional Development at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [Full Announcement].

April 23, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate releases EndNote 2025 with AI-powered research tools. Clarivat, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, released EndNote 2025, a comprehensive reference management solution that streamlines the research and writing process. Its new features include AI support, enhanced referencing tools, and journal matching capabilities, designed to save researchers time and improve accuracy. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Clarivate launches DRG Commercial Analytics 360 enabling medtech companies to advance commercial strategy and Execution. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced the launch of DRG Commercial Analytics 360—a solution designed to empower medtech companies with advanced insights to drive commercial performance. As the demand for precise, analytics-driven strategies grows, medtech companies require deeper visibility into customer activity, affiliations, practice behavior and caseloads. DRG Commercial Analytics 360 equips commercial teams with the insights needed to navigate the complex U.S. provider landscape, engage key stakeholder, and improve both patient access and business outcomes. [Full Announcement].

April 9, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate expands its Academic AI Platform, introducing agentic AI for research and learning. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the expansion of its Academic AI Platform, helping institutions harness agentic AI to accelerate productivity, save time for researchers, students and staff, and engage users in the digital environments they already use. Beginning in April 2025, Clarivate will introduce AI Agents to support key academic workflows. As part of this expansion, we are initiating the development of an Agent Builder and community-driven AI tools, supported by a Development Partner Program set to launch in 2025. [Full Announcement].

March 24, 2025

Clarivate Harnessing the power of AI in academic libraries. A whitepaper from Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, entitled Generative AI and the future of library services, explores the opportunities and challenges of this changing technology environment. The whitepaper shares fresh data and the perspectives of librarians as they navigate the future. [Full Announcement].

March 18, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate vant anbudet om ny kontrakt for biblioteksystemer. Anbudsprosessen for å inngå ny avtale med leverandør av biblioteksystemer til BIBSYS-konsortiet er nå avsluttet. Etter en lang prosess med grundige vurderinger ble Clarivate valgt som leverandør.Dagens kontrakt går ut i 2025, og arbeidet med å skaffe systematisk innsikt i brukerbehov startet allerede i 2021. Det har vært tett brukerinvolvering gjennom hele prosessen, og kravlisten ble utarbeidet i samarbeid med faggruppene i konsortiet. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Clarivate acquires AI start up to accelerate strategy and business development success for Life Sciences and Healthcare Clients. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced an agreement to acquire the substantial majority of assets of MotionHall, a Silicon Valley technology start-up company serving the life sciences with industry vertical Artificial Intelligence solutions. The asset purchase serves as a key component of the Clarivate Life Sciences and Healthcare strategy to deliver transformative intelligence through the application of Generative AI and proprietary industry vertical AI solutions. Clarivate provides people and organizations with transformative intelligence they can trust, propelling human ingenuity into our world's greatest breakthroughs. The acquisition of the full intellectual property, clients and team from MotionHall enables acceleration of multiple roadmaps, including targeted enhancements to Clarivate Cortellis, market assessments, as well as a new Business Development and Licensing Enterprise Workbench. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Clarivate partners with Iprova to streamline the invention creation and submission process. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced a strategic partnership with Iprova, the world's first data-driven invention company and developer of state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence-based technologies which augment and enhance the human ability to invent. This partnership will combine Iprova's product suite for collaboratively capturing, creating and refining inventive concepts with IPfolio, the industry-leading IP management software, enabling a smooth transition of inventions into the patent workflow. [Full Announcement].

March 12, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2025. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, revealed its 2025 ranked list of Top 100 Global Innovators – the organizations at the forefront of technology research and innovation worldwide. The Top 100 organizations prioritize innovation as a central part of their business strategy. Their investment levels in science, engineering, product design and problem-solving is, on average, 8.8% of their revenues. Across the Top 100, this was almost $290 billion USD. [Full Announcement].

March 10, 2025

Clarivate Unlocking research collaboration. The Institute for Scientific Information has extensively documented the strengths and limitations of this approach, alongside practical guidance for responsible use of this indicator. Within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, CNCI is calculated as the average of CNCI values for research publications attributed to researchers, departments, institutions or regions. Consistent with ISI's guidance on responsible research evaluation outlined in our report, 'Profiles not metrics', InCites offers the ability to analyze CNCI Impact Profiles for institutions and locations, as well as CNCI trend graphs by publication year. [Full Announcement].

March 5, 2025

ProQuest Our Letter to the Library Community. This letter is to address the recent changes we announced regarding purchasing of print and perpetual access to electronic books for libraries. We recognize that the absence of community consultation created frustration, during already challenging times for libraries and higher education. We sincerely apologize for this and are committed to learning from this moment and doing better. Over the last two weeks we have been in conversations with librarians, Customer Advisory Boards, user groups, and partners. We acknowledge that choice in collection development, curation, and ownership are essential to libraries' missions, and is the primary way you acquire content. Subscription models are just one component of your collection and access strategies. Our ebook subscriptions are not designed to replace perpetual front-list and textbook purchases and budgets. [Full Announcement].

February 27, 2025

Clarivate Connecting research to real-world outcomes: policy documents in the Web of Science. The new Policy Citation Index on the Web of Science platform links policy documents to the research papers they cite, helping researchers and institutions demonstrate the societal impact of their work. Although policymakers and analysts rely on academic research for decision-making, translating the recommendations from scholarly literature into practical solutions can be challenging. Researchers and policymakers operate in different environments, and the growing volume of published and grey literature can be overwhelming for both researchers and officials alike. To help bridge the gap between research and policy, we are pleased to announce the release of the Web of Science Policy Citation Index, a new collection that adds reports, policy briefs and working papers from worldwide sources to the Web of Science platform. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Clarivate report explores opportunities for innovation and market expansion in Latin America. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has released a new white paper, How is Latin America Growing?, shedding light on the pharmaceutical industry's evolution in the region. The report explores critical challenges and opportunities, emphasizing the importance of strategic partnerships, local API production, and regulatory modernization to drive sustainable growth. [Full Announcement].

February 19, 2025

Clarivate Rialto transforms with today's libraries. Clarivate announced a new transformative subscription-based access strategy for academia. As part of this evolution, we are also making changes to the Rialto marketplace to better align with the needs and priorities of our academic library community. Over the past five years, Rialto has served as a comprehensive selection and acquisition tool, helping over 500 libraries manage their collections more efficiently. During this time, libraries have also evolved amid rapid shifts in technology, budgets, and curriculum—requiring them to prioritize methods that deliver broad, cost-effective ebook access as simply as possible. To achieve this goal, libraries need a more holistic, data-driven approach to fulfilling user needs. [Full Announcement].

February 18, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate unveils transformative subscription-based access strategy for academia. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced a new subscription-based content access strategy. The new approach breaks down barriers through broad and affordable access to highly curated, trusted academic resources, including Ebooks and primary digital collections, enabling every library to support research, teaching and learning goals. The way institutions purchase books, journals and other content for their users has shifted in recent years, particularly post-pandemic. Increasingly, libraries are faced with complex buying models that do not offer the content they require to support curricula and research needs. Libraries continue to prioritize solutions that offer affordability in a sustainable way. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Introducing ProQuest Digital Collections, a new library subscription offering unparalleled breadth, value and access. This new offering for academic libraries spans six centuries of essential content to serve researchers and students of all levels. Clarivate is introducing a simple, broad subscription-based model to better support academic libraries as they look for uncomplicated and sustainable access to content, an enhanced variety of multiformat content to support courses, curricula and research, and trusted AI tools. [Full Announcement].

Clarivate Introducing ProQuest Ebooks, the world's largest scholarly ebook subscription. ProQuest, part of Clarivate, is leading the way in addressing these trends and needs with the launch of ProQuest Ebooks. With over 700,000 titles, ProQuest Ebooks offers the world's largest subscription of high-quality, multidisciplinary scholarly ebooks, available on the award-winning Ebook Central platform. With ProQuest Ebooks, libraries can ensure simple, cost-effective, and uninterrupted access to valuable content essential for students' academic success and learning. [Full Announcement].

February 10, 2025

Clarivate Clarivate recognized for excellence in trademark business in the WTR 1000 2025. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has been recognized by the World Trademark Review for three categories in the WTR 1000 2025 . This guide identifies the top trademark professionals and firms in key jurisdictions around the globe. [Full Announcement].

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