Addressed an issue with exporting a specific table

Addressed an issue where an equation with a non-latin character would cause an error when exporting

Addressed an issue with some specific templates where bookmarks with no rejections issues are not removed

Addresses an issue with some SVG images not being formatted with a black fill in Word as a result of a change Microsoft made in a recent version of Word. This generally affects all users of Word and we have reported the issue to Microsoft. For users of Rowan Patents, we have developed a way around this issue to set the graphic fill so that certain imported SVGs or equations generated in Rowan Patents will display properly in Word.

Addresses a separate issue where imported SVG images would not display correctly.

Imported amended claims would cut off prematurely if an entire paragraph was deleted using track changes in Word.

Some claim markup would not appear properly on the Add & Review Claims page.

Claim templates that use automatic list numbering for section headers would also include numbering as flat text.

Cited art would not be properly identified when the examiner used a numbered suffix to differentiate the same inventor name on different pieces of cited art.

Addressed an issue where tables created in MS Word had some specific border and cell formatting that was not compatible with Rowan Patents export logic and therefore would fail to export the file back to docx

Addressed an issue where the "terminal" or "done block" flowchart stencil became misshaped

Addressed an issue where links in the Summary tab to documents in the file wrapper returned an error

DRAWINGS: Added a new (and hopefully more discoverable) way to add a Figure Part (e.g. Part 200)

DRAWINGS: Adjusted the element selection model making it easier to select multiple parts -- e.g. drag-select parts on top of a background image

DRAWINGS: Addressed an issue where elements could be moved off the canvas with the arrow keys

ABSTRACT: Added more text padding at the bottom of the Abstract section

Addressed an issue where markup of the prior claim set was not being handled properly

Fixed some menu option styling

Rotate Text — you can enable the rotation of text, say for labeling an axis of a graph. Note: Because this setting allows rotation of any text, we have added a caution to help ensure such rotation is not in conflict with Patent Office guidelines -- e.g. 1.84(i)

Rotate Image with Page Orientation — there is now an option to rotate the background image when changing the page orientation.

Made refinements to the sheet panel user interface

Adjusted the Figure merge dialogue to accurately represent the number of figures to be merged

Cleaned up some tool tips to make them more accurate and understandable

Increased the size of the options in the list toolbar menu to make them more readable

The right-side element info panel can now be resized and can overlap the canvas, providing more control over screen real estate

You can now use the escape key to exit stamping mode

Addressed an issue that would minimize or expand the parts list for all duplicated figures at once

Adjusted the centering of a part number in a stencil stencil when it doesn’t have a part name

All element styles in the toolbar submenu are now visible, even when zoomed in

Adjusted the WYSIWYG line spacing to better match the given Word style

Addressed an issue where the numbered list styling in Claims would revert to the default styling

Added the code formatting option to the app menu dropdown

Improved the ability to identify method claims by better handling phrasal verbs

Improve performances on flowchart-from-claims generation

Improved the fetching of Office action documents when entering an application number by including more backup options of data sources and document types

Improved identification of double-patenting rejections by recognizing multi-sentence rejections

Addressed some specific cases where images or chemical structures in claims were not getting migrated to the rolled-over claims

Addressed some specific cases where images or chemical structures in claims were re-sized in the exported docx file

Addressed an issue where claims with newlines before images or chemical structures would be cut off exported into the shell

Addressed an issue where list headers would not show

Improves typing performance when working in large files that contain many tagged elements

Claim-to-Summary generations will now migrate the subscript and superscript formatting from the claims to the summary

Addresses an issue where claim references were not tagged properly in a specific DOCX file

DOCX file will now open even if it contains a table in front of title

Addresses an issue in the drawing tool where a copy and pasted SVG image was not included in the export

There are now more back-up options for fetching an Office action when entering an application number should there be an issue with Patent Center.

Improved identification of figure pages (vs specification pages) when importing figures from a patent publication

Normalized alignment of various part reference numerals in stencils relative to the lead line

Addressed an issue where claim tranformations were not preserving multi-dependencies

Made font styling options in the toolbar active for tagged text

Addressed an issue where it was not possible to capitalize the first letter of tagged text

Fixed an issue where filtering for flagged terms in the terms sidebar did not work

Fixed a menu item in the parts list to accurately reflect that it will add a figure

Fixed an issue where Sequences (Chem/Bio) were not importing from an Excel file

Added an inline "add part" prompt in the parts list panel (You can also use keyboard shortcut of Enter/Return)

Added import options to the application menu

Added the options to the "Figures and Sheets" toolbar dropdown for figure numbering and moving figures

In the element info panel, added the ability to edit the part name when using a different label than the part name

Adjusted the spacing between the lead line and the reference number on the numbered lead line stencil to make it consistent with the outside numbering of an element

Addressed an issue where an image with the wrong file extension did not export in the figure

Addressed an issue where exported figures to SVG would cause any arrows to point the wrong direction

Addressed an issue where a user was not able to access the sheet sorter after importing a custom Rowan Template

Addressed an issue where generating a figure description would undue a part reordering

Adjusted the ordering of the R-groups in the R-group manager to be alphanumeric

Addressed an issue where clearing all terms in the terms manager would represent former tags a "broken" rather than just removing the tag

Addressed an issue where a tagged term was deleted in "Suggestion" mode, then edited in the terms manager, it would update the term in the deletion and cause issues with the deletion annotation

Improved how amended claim language is handled when changing the prior claim text

Addressed an issue where "missing" was inserted when a claim dependency was removed

Addressed an issue where selecting only certain documents for exporting was ignored

Users were clicking on figures in the main application window expecting to open that figure in the drawing tool. So, we changed it. Now, clicking on a drawing will open the drawing tool instead of adding a comment (comments can be added by toggling the commenting option)

An issue in the drawing tool that would sometimes cause a disappearing text box

Claim transformations better supporting the "further comprising" transition

the behavior of merging figures to allow for overwriting specifically numbered figures

the figure number shown in the drawing toolbar and sidebar would not update when switching canvas figures

The support for merging comment replies from DOCX files

Certain DOCX files would not open when imported

A regression in the ability to open CDXML in Chemdraw

The ability to underline the part number stencil

Certain cases where the examiner signed an Office action with a name that differed from the database, stats were not generated.

Auto-tagging of parts when importing a DOCX file was improved

Aligning grouped elements in figures will now align the entire group (vs each individual element)

A number-only stencil would sometimes show two numbers

Empty comments would have their cursor misaligned

Part number capitalization would not be right when tags were updated

Several issues when importing comments & tracked changes from DOCX files

An issue syncing .rp files correctly with Dropbox on Windows

An issue where occasionally a suggestion would be deleted if it contained a tag that was edited/deleted

Biovia chemical structures were being replaced by "MISSING OBJECT" when imported from a DOCX file

A visual issue on a popover on the Profanity portion of the Tools window

Visual issues in the merge dialog checkboxes

Styling issue on the Templates portion of the Tools window

Allow for claim markup (strikethrough and underline) to apply to images in the claims (along with chemical structures and equations) both in the tool and in the export

For double patenting rejections, identify and fetch the art for cited patents and publications associated with rejections, and include that art in the package and Rejection Navigator

Allow special characters to be entered in the docket number field (the generated file name will replace some characters to not interfere with the operating system rules)

An issue that would cause the Rejection Navigator to not be displayed if there was a large combination of rejections and claims

A regression that would not display underlined amendments in claim language on the "Add and Review Claims" portion of the package builder

An issue syncing .rpr files correctly with Dropbox on Windows

Biovia chemical structures were being replaced by "MISSING OBJECT" when imported from a DOCX file

Create a Parts List — you can now create parts separately from what’s on the canvas, manage those parts, and add them to the canvas.

More Flexible Numbering — you now have many more options on how to number parts.

Autonumbering Mode — Number parts in increments of 1, 2 (default), 4, 5, and 10 with all the same renumbering automation, e.g. drag to reorder parts within a figure, numbers updated when figure number changes, etc.

Manual Numbering Mode — Parts take on any number and suffix you type for them while still maintaining the synchronization with any references to those parts in the specification.

Re-use Parts on Any Figure (replaces “linking” of parts with more flexibility) — Any part can be used in multiple figures, and all instances will be kept consistent with any edits you make in the Parts Panel. Drag parts from one figure list in the Parts Panel to any figure without change. E.g., part 202 can appear in FIG. 1 without becoming part 114.

Copy/Paste Parts — The default copy and paste behavior (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V for PCs, Cmd-C/Cmd-V for Macs) will now paste copied stencils with identical part data, i.e., the same part numbers and names, replacing the previous "Paste and Link" functionality.

Paste with New Number — This action pastes copied stencils with new part numbers. (available in the Drawing menu or using the Ctrl+Shift+B/Cmd-Shift-B for Macs shortcut).

Re-Ordering Parts — All part reordering now takes place in the Parts Panel (this replaces the old numbering tab in the right panel). Now, you can multi-select parts and drag to re-order a group of parts. Also, parts can be dragged from one figure listing in the parts panel into another and will assume the numbering mode and attributes of the destination figure.

Multi-select Parts — You can multi-select parts in the parts list for: re-ordering a group of parts; converting part names to terms; setting parts to sub-numbered parts (e.g. 102a, 102b).

Change Element Part Association — You can select an element on the canvas and change its associate to a part via the Element Info Panel or on-canvas editing (below).

Part Panel Default Stencil — Select the stencil that is added to the canvas when dragging parts from the parts list to the canvas.

Automatic Identification of Parts — When opening or merging a Word (docx) file, Rowan Patents will automatically identify parts referenced in the specification and add those to the drawing parts list and sync those parts back to the references.

On Canvas Editing of Part Data — Double-click an element to invoke on-canvas fields for entering or modifying part data and labeling associated with that stencil.

Optimize Screen Real Estate — The Element Info panel (right panel) is now collapsable to free up some screen real estate when needed.

Group Elements — There is now an option in the Element Info panel to group elements together on the canvas. For example, grouped elements can now be dragged around as if they were a single element.

Import PDF Files — You can import PDF files with one or more drawings (e.g. prior patent application figures).

Image Cropping — There is now an image-cropping function allowing you to remove unwanted aspects of an image (e.g. figure numbers when imported PDFs of previous drawings).

Editing an Element Shape — This is now invoked through a halo icon next to the element rather than double-clicking on the shape.

Drawing Toolbar Update — We have done some restructuring of the drawing toolbar, partly to make it more consistent with the other toolbars, but also to accommodate a change we plan to release soon. This change will add all of the element formatting options to the toolbar, reducing the need to have the right Element Info panel take up screen real estate.

Automated Terms/Definition Identification — When opening a Word (docx) file in Rowan Patents, terms with definitions will be automatically identified and added to the Terms Manager.

FASTA/FASTQ Import — Sequences can now be imported in these formats.

Bug Fixes and Other Improvements Addressing:

Status Indicators — You can now set the case and style for status indicators in the Response Writer.

Boilerplate Text Insert Management and Sharing — You and/or your organization can now centrally manage the boilerplate text insert options via an Excel spreadsheet.

Bug Fixes and Other Improvements Addressing:

Multi-column sections—you can now format a section to handle content in multiple columns (view multi-column sections article)

Stencil stamping— expanding on the Rapid Number feature, now you can quickly populate a number of any of the stencils on the drawing canvas (view stencil stamping article)

Chem/Bio/Pharma

Multiple range-combo content generation— you can now provide values for the start and end of multiple ranges to generate a table or list of combinations of those ranges (view multiple range content generation article)

Bug fixes and other improvements — addressing the following:

Attorney signature block data management — we have added options on how to manage the attorney signature block data, including an option to have it centrally managed (view attorney signature block data article)

Bug fixes and other improvements — addressing the following:

Bug Fixes — addressing the following issues:

Added menu items for accessing your profile and the ability to sign out directly from the prosecution module

Non-Patent Literature (NPL) — NPL will now be included in the listings of cited art for your reference. NPL documents will not be included in the exported package. You will still have to use your own source for downloading NPL.

Restriction Requirements — When entering an application number, the system will now fetch Restriction Requirements if that is the most recent action from the Office.

Bug Fixes — addressing the following issues:

Bug Fixes — addressing the following issues:

R-group numeric ordering in the left navigation has been improved

Addressed an issue with numbered list syncing across paragraphs

Addressed an issue in which the rejection navigator was not removing stricken language from the prior claim set

Addressed an issue in which the rejection navigator would show an error in certain conditions

Addressed an issue where claim numbers were not being imported in some conditions

Addressed an issue where canceled claims were not rolled over correctly

Drawings:

Prosecution Module

Improves performance when the document includes dozens of comments

Adds the ability to change a drawing element's stencil after it has been placed on the drawing canvas

Addresses an issue preventing certain docx files with certain chemical object formats from loading

Adjusts the copy/paste experience so that copied selections that include suggested deletions will not put that deleted content on the clipboard

Adjusts the copy/paste of claim amendments to remove deleted (strikethrough) text when inserting as a reference into the arguments section of the response

Adds the ability to include issue section boilerplate both before and after the issue listings

Improves the organization of cited art listing on the Office action review page. This also now includes "other possible art" that the system has identified but does not have a matching matter in the public databases

Improves the performance of claim support validation

Addresses an issue where claim markup that had one spanning an entire paragraph would not export correctly

Addresses an issue where some dynamic fields were not being filled out when generating the response for the Response writer

Lock Position

You can now lock the position of elements on the drawing tool canvas. This will allow you to move the objects you want to move and not the ones you don't. In the Element Description panel, check the Lock Position option to lock the selected element(s).

Flowchart Generation -- Highlight Claim Language

To help you keep track of the claim language you have used in a flowchart when using the new flowchart generation feature, the claim text used in a flowchart step or description will be highlighted. Note: this highlights the same text in your claims section to inform you when you are modifying claim language contained in a flowchart and description.

Images and compounds in a table cell were not being exported to the DOCX (Word) file correctly

Copying text from the claim sidebar in the drawing tool that contained highlights or tags would not paste correctly.
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Added the ability to "refresh" proofreading and claim support data in the right tab without having to close and re-open the pane

Added highlighting to selected cited art references when reviewing the office action in the package generation steps

Added a help menu

Adjusted the placement of some claim-specific options in the app menu

Addresses an issue that reported inconsistent SSP dates for office actions imported via PDF vs DOCX

Addressed an issue where adjusting claim references did not result in amendments to the claim reference change

Remove text that wrongly indicated we could add prosecution claims from a Rowan Patents (.rp) file

Package builder - Generate all the files available from our web-based Prosecution and export them to .zip, OR save them as an .rpr file and immediately preview each PDF and begin drafting your response, right in Rowan Patents

Response writer - Amend your claims with automated markup styling and synched amendment to parallel claim elements. Draft your supporting remarks in easy-to-navigate response sections. Once your response is drafted, export it to a customizable Word template for filing.

Rejection navigator - Access an interactive side-by-side view of issues, claims, examiner remarks and cited art

Summary - Review your application’s bibliographic data, predictive examination analytics, and USPTO file history

View thumbnails of your figure when you hover over the figure numbers in the new figure navigation at the bottom of the drawing tool

Now, when you delete a figure, you will be presented with the previous figure instead of the first figure

Addresses an issue with the new flowchart generation where some text in the description fields was not being included in the automated figure description generation

Addresses an issue with the new flowchart generation in which cutting any text in the description field removed all of the text

Improves flowchart component selector by filtering out other flowchart elements

Addresses an issue where certain imported SVG files were missing arrowheads upon export

Now opens the stencil panel in drawing tool by default

Addresses an issue where the automatically-generated flowchart description would not properly capitalize subsequent sentences if more than one sentence was entered into the description field

Addresses an issue where some verbs in the automatically-generated flowchart description were not transformed correctly

Change "Review" to "Suggesting" for turning on the ability to suggest and track changes within the specification.

Address an issue where page numbering in an exported document would reset if the orientation (portrait/landscape) switched between sections

Address an issue where duplicating or transforming claims doesn't scroll to the new claims

Address an issue where the performance of find and tag terms was slow in certain conditions

Address an issue when copying and pasting molecular drawings between files, the drawings were converted to images rather than preserving the data of the molecular drawing

Opening or merging a Word (DOCX) file now will include any png or jpg images that were present in the Word file.

Addressed an issue that was causing find-and-tag claim terms in certain documents to error and fail to tag lots of terms

Addressed an issue where merging or opening Word documents in Rowan Patents would not render certain special characters

Addressed an issue where tables with irregular column widths imported from Word would not always have their widths preserved

Added an error message when a user tries to merge the unsupported .doc file (instead of a .docx file)

Addressed an issue where a user couldn't set the dashed/dotted border style for drawing elements in older .tp files (before we had a thickness setting)

Addressed an issue where changing "Compounds" to "Examples" in the compound manager would not use the correct column header in the inserted table
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In the drawing tool, remove the pre-filled "item" part name when adding numbering stencils. (Note: this is based on feedback that "item" gets in the way of entering the part name you really want)

Fixed an issue where certain comments couldn't be deleted

Fixed an issue where certain specification sections were merged into the wrong location

In the Compound Manager, you can now select between using the prefix "Compound" or "Example" when inserting numbered compounds/examples

Molecular drawings should now be more consistent in size when importing and exporting

Performance when pasting molecular drawings from the integrated Chemdraw tool should be significantly improved

Fixed a windowing issue with the integrated Chemdraw tool

ST.26 Sequence Listing Support

Identify proteins vs nucleotides even when spaces are removed

Convert Biovia mol data to skc format

Fix issue where pasting chem data would trigger an error

Fix issue preventing certain chem images from being pasted from Word

Remove the the marker text "(deleted)" to merged tagged terms that are not in the target document's term manager

Improve saving of files in specific situations (e.g. slow access to network drives) that could be interrupted and cause issues with the file

Fix issue where Visio files could be saved with no extension

Fix issue where centered text wasn’t centered on export

Tweak handling of deleted claims referenced by a multi-dependent claim tag

Other improvements and bug fixes

This adds a new tab to the tools window where you can manage compounds

You can copy/paste content from an excel spreadsheet that contains:

You can reorder the compounds while keeping the internal reference number connected to the reordered compound number

The compound insert sidebar can be used to insert the compound number, the name, or the structure itself.

From the sidebar, you can also generate a table that contains all of the compounds listed in the compound manager

Flexible section formatting features are now in place.

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) formatting with respect to margins and tables.

Fix a bug where setting the current figure to A with a higher-numbered grouped figure on the same sheet would cause the figure numbering to be incorrect

Fix a bug that would prevent the find and tag algorithm from working when a multi-word term is present at the end of a claim line

Clarify the wording in the acronyms validation modal (“Undefined Acronyms”)

Your formatting is better preserved (bold/underline/etc.) when converting protein sequences from three-to-one-letter formats and vice-versa

Improved Chemical structure handling

You now have the option to view and navigate to headings within your document instead of only the standard sections.

And, it now includes direct navigation to specific brief figure descriptions.

Just select a claim or claims and click on the move icon in the left margin.

This "picks up" those claims that you can then drop elsewhere in the claims for reordering.

All claim numbers and references are automatically updated just as before.

Improves importing (from Word) and copy and pasting tables into the specification

Improves the right sidebar (with Parts, Terms, Sequences, and R-Groups) so more information about each sidebar item is visible

Addresses an issue where the autocomplete list would suggest duplicates if a term's plural and singular form were identical

Addresses an issue where list indentation was not right when converting indented claims to a list

Addresses an issue that would mis-number grouped parts on documents with figures with more than 100 parts

Clarifies language in the Local Validations for count of acronym issues.

If your application contains chemical structures, you will have the option to export those along with the Word (docx) file. The chemical structures in the Word file are linked to the structures in the chemical files.

Clarifies language in the message when converting protein and nucleotide sequences between one and three letters

A performance regression while finding and tagging in a text field, that was particularly nasty when generating flowcharts from claims

An issue when merging a .tp file that contains any multi-dependent claims would cause an error, leaving the merge incomplete and the file in a semi-corrupted state.

A term’s definition (or R-Group description or a full sequence) would not insert correctly and not sync correctly when inserted into a table cell

A regression in the last release that prevented docx files from being opened in the tool

An issue that prevented documents with certain kinds of corrupted data about formatting tracked changes from being exported

An issue that would prevent removal of highlighting from being shown as a tracked change

An issue preventing copy and pasting equations from Word on Windows from being recognized as editable equations

An issue preventing copy and pasting equations from Word with a language set to other than US English

A typo in the message prompting users to report a docx file that failed to open

An issue where word documents with chemical structures in claims were not importing those chemical structures with the rest of the content

A fix to allow copy-linking to work in the drawing tool with image stencils

When you have two document windows open for the same file, changing content in one window would cause the other window's scroll position to jump

Undo/Redo in the app menu were not always working

Updating the UX (and performance) of the image toolbar for specification images

Issue with table alignment when tables were copied/pasted from Word

Tables exported with widely different table cell widths when pasted in from Word

Generating summary of claims when a claim replacement is empty caused an error

Deletion no longer deletes the wrong claim when the left nav's claim delete icon is clicked

Images in the specification with SVGs set to inline to disappear and not show in the editor

Comment on a track-changes-suggested-deletion would make the file un-exportable

Tagged part numbers beginning with "11" would be prefaced with "a" instead of with "an"

Inserted glossary turns several inserted definitions into a list format when an inserted definition ended with a list

Orthogonal links were not maintaining their orthogonality when their end points were not fixed to the center of a drawing element

Chem/Bio: structures not importing when merging Word files

Chem/Bio: sometimes structures would not be being saved

Chem/Bio: issue with the selection when a new structure is loaded in the ChemDraw tool

You can now open a DOCX file. This opens just the contents included in the Word document rather than merging the contents into a default template with existing headers and boilerplate.

From the landing window, or from the File menu, select “Open File” and choose the Word document you want to open.

When merging a reviewed Word file with comments and track changes, you can now download a report in Word of the comments/suggestions that did not merge from a reviewed Word document

Check out this article for more information on merging reviewed Word documents

Improved the layout of the right sidebar for Terms

Fixed the occasionally paragraph numbers being out of order in the specification window (not in the export)

Fixed an issue where some style templates would erroneously cause page numbers to be omitted in the docx export

Disabled the claim reference drop-down for claim tags that weren’t actually dependency references

Disabled the claim reference drop-down when in review mode

Fixed an issue where generated summaries of multiply-dependent claims would include some claim numbers

When the file contains several figures and figure parts, lag in typing and switching windows should be significantly improved.

When single sections (e.g. the Detailed Description Introduction) has an abundance of content, this should reduce/eliminate the typing lag in that section

Highlight Text -- this allows formatting of text with one of four highlight colors, for example to review content or mark it for future reference. (NOTE: text highlight formatting is removed when exporting to Word to comply with patent office guidelines)

Table formatting improvements -- e.g. added column width and text alignment settings

Alignment/Justification -- set text, images, and other specification objects to align left, right, or center

Capabilities related to chemical structures, especially those created in ChemDraw

Recognize and improve editing of nucleotide sequences

Set range combinations to an increment less than one (1).

Various improvements to Visio export

Fixes an issue where (Windows only) users would have words erroneously flagged as misspelled.

Addresses an issue where certain imported SVG images would inherit properties of other imported SVG images on the same canvas

Fixes an issue where creating a tag on text that shares a boundary with a comment would make the comment expand to the rest of the editor

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Import or Copy/Paste equations from a Word file. These will import as “live” equations (not just images) that can be edited in the built-in equation editor.

Addressed a rare timing issue that caused issues with saving a TP file

Made it so the “Delete Claim” menu item worked again

Removed an errant period from the Claim-to-Summary generation

Support for importing sequences data from a Patentin txt file

Ability to convert between three-character sequence IDs and one-character sequence IDs

Ability to create of subsequences from and inside sequences via a menu option

Support for formatting of sub-sequences

Support for pasting Chemdraw elements from Microsoft Word into the specification fields

Ability to adjust the size of images

Ability to add multiple images in a row (along with text)

The drawing preview in the document window would sometimes display incorrect text wrapping

Saving to a network drive would sometimes cause issues with the file

Inserting a definition/description twice should no longer cause both instances to highlight pink (unsynced text)

Definitions that included a tag containing subscript/superscript should no longer be marked as unsynced immediately upon insertion

Removes the possibility of opening two versions of the same file by quickly double-clicking twice on the same file.

Addresses an issue where merged definitions became un-synced from the terms manager

Some SVG files used as a background image in a drawing no longer turn invisible when that drawing was not selected

Images from older tp file will now copy and paste into a new file

Fixed an issue when a drawing sheet was dragged from one file to another, imported images would not transfer.

Improved performance on files that contain many and/or big images. This significantly changes how images are handled within the document, which should greatly improve general performance when working in files that contain images

Improved performance when:

Fix an issue where under some circumstances, after dragging a term onto a drawing, the resulting element would not respond to clicks and other UI interactions

Fix an issue that was preventing an application with certain kinds of custom style templates from being exported to Word

Improved performance—upgraded core editor which includes general performance optimizations

Improved drawing tool link connection—the target/anchor point of the link will be anchored where you drop the arrowhead, rather than in the center of the element

SVG validation upon import—confirms when SVG can be properly exported, and warns if not

Fixes an issue preventing using the path editor on the figure part (the x00 element)

Fixes an issue preventing the merging of terms whose definitions has too much styling, e.g. too many subscripts/superscripts

Fixes an issue with the undo operation when in review mode (track changes)

Improved typing performance

Less "lag" in being able to start typing after switching windows

Imported Visio files now imports text into the label field as lower case (better for part references in the specification), and tries to replicate the case of the text on the figure

Added greek and other symbols to the PDF export

Fixed issue where the cursor would jump to the top of a section when in a numbered/bulleted list

Fixed issue where the cursor would jump to the top of a section when in a review mode

Fixed issue where certain characters in the figure label were not the same height when exported to PDF and viewed in certain PDF viewers

Fixed issue where certain conditions caused a section to freeze when inserting all definitions

Add subscript and superscript in parts names and labels

Lock elements and links to horizontal or vertical access (shift-drag)

Import Visio files and preserve figure and part sub-numbering

Use same auto-text shortcut for both capital and lower case

Reference parts as a group – e.g. Devices 102, 104, 106. i.e, a part number can be used separate from its part name

Add subscript and superscript to terms

The tagging autocomplete suggestion ordering now prioritizes beginning-of-taggable-text instead of percentage of matched text (e.g. 'com' should now suggest “computing service” before “cloud computing”

Enabling 'link to part' automatically opens the search dropdown to save a click

Part linking and grouping controls for links/connectors are now back in the tool

Flowchart rectangle in stencil picker now looks like a flowchart rectangle

Old references to 'drawings' have been replaced with 'figures'

Fixed an issue where importing comments/suggestions from a reviewed Word document would not include all comments

Fixed an issue where generating the description of a flowchart would occasionally fail

Addressed some cases where the autocomplete menu shows duplicate entries

Fix visual alignment of plural form in edit term dialog

Fix a couple of drawing tool oddities where dropping a stencil right near the edge of the canvas would produce odd results

Fix a few tooltips-related UI glitches, where tooltips were too large, or were being partially hidden by other UI elements

Fix UI glitch where scrolling all the way to the right on a zoomed in canvas would sometimes show a gray bar instead of the white background extending all the way to the edge of the canvas

Fix the capitalization logic to only capitalize a-z and not other character such as greek letters commonly used in chemical formulas

Fix issue preventing re-syncing of an out-of-sync definition that occurs at the beginning of a paragraph

Fix an issue where a change-tracked addition of an equation would cause the editor containing it to fail to load when opening the file or a new document window

Fix an issue where certain Windows security configurations would complain of an out-of-date certificate used to sign our code

Fix a UI glitch where dragging a term in the terms manager would sometimes look like you were dragging two terms

Improvements to term operations (add/delete/edit)

Optimized some drawing tool interactions

Smaller improvements to typing performance

Overhauled UNDO operations to be more predictable and consistent.

Fit-to-Text horizontal and vertical controls (more info)

Flexible display labels for each linked part

Visio import now includes a loading UI while processing

Automatically Generate a Summary from Claims (More info)

Merge Comments/Suggested Edits from a Reviewed Word File (More info)

Reference and Keep Synced Claim Numbers in Specification

Improved auto-generation of flowchart description

The cursor no longer resets to the beginning of the editor after converting text to a term.

The Windows menu bar no longer disappears/reappears causing the window content to jump vertically where when switching between different application windows.

Dragging a link stencil into a figure no longer results in the link being numbered by default.

Rapid numbering number elements no longer have a box drawn around them.

A term with a double-space or a part name ending with a space is no longer suggested for autocompletion anytime you type a space in the specification.

Elaborating tagged text in a claim will automatically tag that same text in the newly generated claim.

Improved the page loading and operation-in-progress loading UI to be less jarring

Further optimizes typing performance, reducing lag.

Reduces cross-window sync times to improve overall performance.

Further improves performance when adding/removing numbered paragraphs.

Optimize your screen real estate to focus on the drawing canvas with a new collapsable left panel and new scrolling behavior for the right panel.

Automatically renumber parts based on the reference order in the specification.

Convert straight lines into curves when editing stencils.

Use shortcut text to automatically insert common phrases.

Plural versions of terms are added automatically (but still editable).

Includes comments and suggestions when merging a tp file.

New template for adding and editing auto-complete phrases using shortcuts.

Fixes a regression where part numbers were automatically added to imported background images.

Fixes an issue where flowchart element names were not being added automatically when using arrows to add steps.

Improves Visio Import (beta) to handle a wider variety of Visio content.

Fixes an issue where Visio Import (beta) would cause the window not responding dialog to pop up.

Improves visual fidelity of equations in word output by inserting them as SVG instead of PNGs.

Fixes an issue where sometimes when returning to the drawing window after doing work in another window, a "Cannot read property 'x' of null" error message would appear.

Overall optimization of the software which means you should see a reduced memory footprint, shorter load times when opening a file, faster switching between windows, and other general areas of performance improvements.

Stencil editor capabilities.

Actor order operations in automated markdown figure generation.

Bigger sheet and figure number font.

Visio import (beta) improvements to handle more variations of Visio content.

Element rotation user experience improvements.

Insert/copy-paste multiple claims.

Figure reference thumbnails added when hovering over Figure number.

Abstract word count now exclude the heading (won't count "Abstract").

Equation insertion improvements: insert inline or standalone equations; better vertical alignment; equation no longer can overflow page on export, fix issue for cursor when equation is at end of paragraph.

Fixed issue where tables could have incorrect widths in the export.

Several visual/UI improvements to the profanity tool.

Sub-number parts (e.g. 102a, 102b, 102c) For more information, here's an article on Part Sub-numbering.

Import Visio (.vsdx) files (beta) If you are interested in being a beta user, please contact Tracy Campbell.

Rotate shapes 360°.

Adjust the length of the right angle connector.

Merge terms within a file to become one term (normalization).

Merge individual term and definition from one file to another.

Fixed issue where copying and pasting a part would result in an unexpected number, e.g. if you have 102, 104, 106 and you copy and paste 102, the new/pasted part would become 104 instead of 108.

Fixed issue when using an overbrace in an equation.

Fixed issue where adding an equation to an empty definition field wouldn't work.

Fixed bug where drag-selecting inside an editor in the drawing numbering panel would sometime drag the part instead of performing the selection operation.

Create and edit mathematical equations and chemical formulas using the integrated MathType plugin.

Reverted exported (.docx) claim numbering format to plain text.

Connect stencils using top/bottom right angle connectors.

Number a part using a numbered lead line with an arrow.

You can now close dialogues using the ESC key.

Added a "processing spinner" when exporting a specification.

Removed blue background when hovering over parts in the numbering panel.

Customize the method to apparatus/CRM claim generations by defining claim templates.

Insert a synced parts list.

Keep track of number of words in the Abstract with an persistent abstract word counter.

Align and/or distribute shapes relative to the drawing sheet.

Customize the sub-numbering of the figure reference number .

Unified tools window now includes terms, profanity, and consistency checks all in one place.

In the document window, more toolbar items move into the overflow dropdown menus when the window is very narrow.

In the document window, comments shift left and right according to whether any landscape sheets are visible on the screen.

When adding a new figure to the current sheet by converting the existing figure the new figure label appears in the middle of the sheet instead of the default location, which will often be right on top of the existing figure label.

Removed confusing styling from numbering panel that suggested flowchart elements could be reordered when they actually can't.

Fix issue where copying/pasting a term tag would flatten it to plain text unless you also included a leading space in the selection.

Fix issue where autocomplete menu in claim fields would not include plural forms of terms.

Prevent applying styles (bold, underline, etc.) to text inside tags, since we don't actually support styling tagged text even though it looked like we did.

Customize the styling and formatting of the Word (.docx) document -- e.g. margins, fonts, paragraph and line spacings, claim indentations, headers and footers. If you are interested or want more information, email Tracy Campbell: tcampbell@rowantels.com.

Insert special symbols such as mathematical, currency, and others directly into the specification.

Create sub-numbered figure groups (Fig 1A, 1B, 1C) and the drafting tool helps ensure that figure numbering and grouping follow the PTO's guidelines. For more information, see the article on Sub-numbered Figure Groups.

Add more than one figure per sheet and let the drafting tool keep track of proper figure ordering as well as part numbering for each figure. For more information, see the article on Multiple Figures per Sheet and Part Numbering.

Create drawings that meet PCT guidelines with the following adjustments to the tool: exported PDF sheets all have a portrait orientation; increased the lower case height to not be "less than 0.32 cm" in drawings; moved the file reference to the left-hand corner within 1.5 cm from the top of the exported drawings; added the ability to place more than one figure on a sheet to meet the requirement that different figures be arranged on a sheet without wasting space; adjusted lines and arrows to be 100% black.

The document window tool is now more compact and responsive so you can narrow the window and still see all the options.

Related to the above, the default size of the document window default size is narrower.

When auto-completing a tag at the beginning of a sentence you will now be offered a capitalized option as well as a lowercase option.

When you click on a drawing element, the focus is removed from any focused input fields so hotkeys like left/right operate on the drawing element rather than the input field cursor.

The file recovery dialog now only displays the filename of the recovered file instead of the full path.

Fix an issue where pasting content into a drawing element's name or label field would sometimes freeze the window.

Fixed an issue where auto-generated flowchart descriptions occasionally showed as HTML.

Added support for searching and replacing spaces, including double-spaces as well as non-breaking spaces.

Collapse the left navigation panel to regain screen real estate.

Delete one or more claims directly from the navigation panel.

Changed default "Brief Summary" field label to just "Summary".

Fixed an issue where an auto-generated flowchart's brief description contained extra, meaningless characters .

Updated names and branding to our new company name. For more information on that, visit https://rowantels.com/.

if a term is referenced in a part and that part is referenced in the spec, it now adds that to the term use count in the spec column.

Fixed an issue where a part number without a name wasn't added to the Part Name list.

Parts should now be ordered properly by part number.

Added the ability to click on a term or a part and find its uses in the specification and figures.

Fixed an issue in the drawings where stencil height or width would get reset to 1 when selecting multiple stencils.

Fixed an issue in which comments would appear to become uneditable.

Fixed an issue in the definitions input field where the cursor would bounce to the head of the field.

Selecting "Edit Term and Definition" from context menu no places the cursor into the proper place in the definition input field.

Search and replace text in the specification.

Check usage of terms, parts and definitions usage, and get warnings when one of those has not been used.

Customize the definition template wording and see the entire text of the definition that will be inserted into the specification.

Automatically identify and import terms that are contained in any Word (.docx) file, such as the full text from another specification or an Invention Disclosure Form (IDF).

View and rearrange all of the drawing sheets via a new sheet sorter.

Reduced the space of the drawing navigation in the drawing editor .

Expanded the canvas display to show the entire area inside the margins, and the figure/sheet numbers are displayed (as read-only text) where they will be printed upon export.

Stencils can now be set to a transparent background rather than opaque white.

Lead lines and links can be set to varying thicknesses and lead line styles can be set to dashed or dotted.

Tabbing through the name/label field in the numbering tab should no longer focus fields in the wrong order after reordering.

Moving elements around with the keyboard arrows should work properly while zoomed now.

Old .tp files should now consistently show link labels in the right font.

Button in image upload dialog should now work more consistently (dragging and dropping a file worked, but clicking to browse for one didn't).

Patent Profanity validation helps practitioners avoid unwanted language that may impair the patent application. Click here for more information on how to use this new feature. (V2.11.1 contains a few tweaks to the default Profanity lists.)

Next/previous comment buttons now should navigate to drawing comments as well as text comments.

Preserve inline definitions across copy/cut/paste.

Include articles when generating flowcharts from method claims.

Improved controls in document window toolbar for comments/track changes -- split button.

Fix Inline definitions that would sometimes break the definition syncing relationship without the standard UI indication.

Fix deactivating and reactivating a drawing comment to update the icon color to indicate it was reactivated.

Fix SVG images imported into the drawing tool that would sometimes drop visual features like arrowheads.

Don't add empty text boxes to Visio exported drawings (they would often cause the content to invisibly overflow the page).

Fix dragging an image from a browser into an editor that would paste in the image, but it would not display when offline.

Fix dragging a drawing list item to reorder that would also drag a bunch of visual content above the drawing list item.

Eliminate intermittent occurrences of "this.removeScrollListener is not a function" error.

Eliminate intermittent EPERM error dialogs on Windows.

Eliminate intermittent (harmless but unsettling) error dialog when quitting the application on MacOS.

Auto-recovery automatically open all previously open files, including those that had unsaved changes. You then have the option to save the file with the unsaved changes.

Improved performance when switching windows.

Improved performance when typing in part name.

Changed toolbar menus to open on click instead of hover, to be more intuitive and consistent with other apps such as Word or Google Docs.

When exporting to Word/PDF, if there is no docket number, use the the title when generating filenames.

When pasting content from MS Office, comments are now filtered out.

Added a progress bar to RoboReview processing window.

Adjusted the delete claims window for consistency with similar operations.

Fixed an issue in which the figure label in the brief description would show 'NaN' instead of its part number, and would incorrectly look like it was linked to another element.

Number elements with lead lines can now be moved around using the keyboard arrow keys.

Drawings and/or windows while a drawing was zoomed to something other than 100% no longer messes up the canvas, causing the zoom selector and/or actual zoom level of the canvas to be incorrect.

When generating a flowchart, the brief description now uses a tag for the figure label element rather than the plain text.

Merging older tp files no longer miscounts the number of terms/definitions to be merged.

Visio export now handles number element lead lines or the figure label arrowhead correctly.

Quitting with multiple files open with unsaved changes and choosing to discard changes now actually quits the application.

Dragging multiple drawing elements no longer sometimes selects some of the text outside the canvas.

Insert tables in claims or anywhere in the specification.

Added support for A4 page size.

Merge MS Word Content into a TP file, including an improved merge user interface.

Improved typing performance/responsiveness.

Clicking on the navigation of the specification quickly to the section rather than scroll (which sometimes felt slow).

Added support for A4 page size.

Improved SVG export to import into Visio.

Added ability to nest one term inside another.

User-driven tag capitalization.

Improved performance of adding a new term.

On Windows PCs, the drawing window no longer adjusts vertically when giving it focus. This sometimes caused inadvertent movement of stencils on the canvas.

Plural form of a part name should no longer get accidentally deleted on occasion.

Next/previous comment/suggestion buttons should now work consistently.

Merging a .tp file with drawings should no longer result in connector labels changing to "UNDEFINED".

When generating a flowchart from a method claim, the generated brief description should now consistently include a figure reference.

Removed false error message when dragging an image onto a drawing canvas.

CTRL/CMD-A on the drawing page now selects only elements on the canvas, rather than all the text (including the user interface items) on the page.

Error message when starting application with no network connection now makes more sense.

Automatically transform/auto-correct text - e.g. auto-capitalization, symbols.

Added ability to insert single synced definition from Terms Manager.

When inserting all definitions, disabled automated entry into certain fields where it really doesn't make sense, like claims or abstract.

Added new code block paragraph styling.

Improved the navigation bar (left panel), making the interactions more consistent and made some additional minor improvements.

Manually set a plural version (or any alternative version) of a part name by using the options menu above the part number.

Convert a part name to a term.

Add Left/Right orthogonal links.

Evenly distribute drawing elements relative to each other.

Reorganized first stencil group, splitting out the "special stencils" (number element, text-only box, etc.) from the common shapes (square, circle, etc.).

Scaled down images imported into drawings -- When adding importing a shape/stencil to the drawing canvas, we scaled it down to be the default size of most of our stencils (and you can scale it back up if you want).

Dragging off the canvas while resizing a drawing element no longer makes the shape grow in the other direction.

Duplicating a drawing should no longer take up to 10-20 seconds.

Pasting a mix of numbered and un-numbered paragraph from Word now will actually paste something.

Prevent autocomplete popup from being mostly off-screen by showing it above, instead of below, the typed text when needed.

Removed the floating help icon on the lower right and replaced it with a menu item in the help menu that has access to support articles and sending messages customer support.

Added tooltips to various toolbar buttons.

When merging a .tp file into another tp file, Authoring now finds and auto-tags any occurrences of newly-merged terms.

The insert image option in the application menu now works.

Dragging a term from the term manager to the drawing canvas to create a part reference now works again.

Large images no longer overflow page width when exporting to word.

Tagged terms inside quotes at the beginning of a sentence capitalize properly.

Text-range comments -- the document window now allows you to add comments that are attached to a specific range of text, as opposed to only an entire paragraph. Select the text and use the "add comment" option in the toolbar or menus.

Support comments on drawings -- in the main document window, you can click on the drawings to add comment threads anchored at specific locations in the drawing.

Add orthogonal routing option to drawing connectors -- when set, the connector will only have horizontal and vertical line segments and right angle vertices.

Added circle (outline & filled) link endpoint options to drawing tool.

Term tags were being auto-capitalized when they appeared at the beginning of a definition (after the term and boilerplate).

Terms would not auto-capitalize inside a definition.

SVG images inserted in the specification wouldn't export (removed SVG import into specification -- use .jpg or .png).

Drawings export didn't work when drawing contained certain imported SVG images.

Merging definitions into a tp file, term tags inside those definitions would become broken.

Leading/trailing spaces were included in tagged terms.

Multi-word terms would not be tagged when generating an elaborated claim.

Handling tp file permissions (EPERM error).

Word export paragraph numbering issue where editing the document after export would throw a compatibility warning and corrupt the paragraph numbers.

Repeatedly pasting a drawing element would paste once onto the canvas, then start pasting odd text into the pasted element's label field instead of pasting additional copies of the element onto the canvas.

Word export numbering would continue to increment across separate numbered lists.

Glossary was not alphabetized properly.

Tags weren't properly capitalizing if the preceding sentence ended with a word contained quotes or other punctuation.

Images contained in definitions would not be present in the review window (only their captions would be).

The figure & page number are now in drawings in the Review window.

We added tooltips to help ease the learning curve.

Grid size & guides settings weren't persisting.

Terms would be incorrectly capitalized in review window.

Sometimes (often after deleting a drawing), the selection box would appear on a click instead of click-and-drag.

Rotated elements were not properly restricted when dragging near the edge of the canvas.

Rotated elements weren't always properly aligned when using the alignment tools.

Changed figure references in the specification to FIG. X to match the brief descriptions in the Word (.docx) output.

Paragraph numbers in the review window were sometimes out of sync with the word export, e.g. sometimes caused by bulleted lists getting paragraph numbers.

Old .tp files containing a few specific stencils would not open properly.

Trying to delete a drawing other than the "current" one would instead delete the "current" one.

Removed extra whitespace to the right of drawing canvas when zoomed way out.

Updated login screen UI to provide more clarity/better guidance around entering the organization domain.

Snap-to guides and group alignment tools.

Grid size control.

Zoom on drawing canvas.

Lock aspect ratio when resizing stencils.

Full-size preview of stencils while dragging onto the canvas.

Drag-and-drop image files directly onto the canvas to import.

Import .SVG files into the drawing tool. With this, you can convert any SVG file into a TurboPatent stencil and use outside numbering, connector links, etc. This opens up usage of the large libraries of SVG files that can be found on the Internet -- e.g. for electrical stencils, and various devices.

Link/line stencils — drop on the canvas to create a disconnected link or line.

Link connection control — red dot in the stencil is the adjustable anchor position for the link.

“Connect Link To” setting -- make links connect to the interior of elements, rather than the boundary.

Drag-and-drop outside number position and lead line angle — replaces the funny slider for changing outside number positioning.

New number element stencil with a lead line automatically attached — drag the stencil to where you want the lead line to point, then drag the number around the lead line into the position you want.

Adjust length of outside number/number stencil lead lines.

Find-in-page functionality in the Review window.

Show paragraph numbers in the Review window.

A number of minor improvements to the terms panel.

Terms panel added to the Specification window — select a term to scroll to its first use and highlight all uses.

Add a little spacing to make it easier to visually distinguish paragraphs in the spec window.

Users who experienced an “Unable to read ‘selector’ undefined” error shouldn't experience that anymore.

Stencils no longer auto-size bigger than needed text in a drawing element just to wrap on a space preceding a tag.

Added a drawing description boilerplate paragraph in review window so paragraph numbers match Word output.

Link routing should now be sticky.

When dragging multiple elements, they now all stop moving when one of them reaches the edge of the canvas, rather than them getting squished together.

When using keyboard arrow keys to move multiple elements, the selection boxes no longer “get left behind”.

Those few drawings that had trouble exporting to PDF now export just fine.

Improved claims import to tolerate stray status indicators.

The exported Word document filename defaults to the docket number (if entered).

Terms are now capitalized when exporting the glossary (and in the Review window).

You can now tag terms inside parentheses. e.g. if you type '(client' or '(102' it would suggest 'client 102' (previously the presence of the open paren would prevent it from suggesting anything).

The auto-complete menu now shows the items that best match first. e.g. if you type "neural netw" and it matched both "neural network" and "network", "neural network" will be presented first.

Fixes an issue where typing the full text of a term or drawing object without explicitly accepting the auto-complete suggestion, and then hitting space or entering punctuation, the cursor would end up before the space/punctuation instead of after.

Added "Launch RoboReview" item to the file menu -- this will open a tab in your browser that will run a RoboReview on the specification you drafted.

Fixes an issue in the drawing tool where sticky settings were being applied to number stencils, incorrectly giving them a border that couldn't easily be removed.

And other performance/bug fixes.

Tweaked the wording of the glossary entries in the word output.

Removed the glossary and description headings from the word output.

Add an "include glossary" checkbox to the specification page that can be used to include or exclude the glossary when exporting to word.

Fix the recent files list on the landing page to show most recent on top, and to not show duplicates.