Timeline
Uppdragshuset founded – Uppdragshuset was founded by four patent examiners at the Swedish patent office with a vision to deliver smart IPR support for the innovation process, by offering superior search services and intuitive IPR tools.
We were pioneers in the field, and one of the first to offer a web-based administration tool, ArchiveOnline. At the time this was a simple system for managing patent information. ArchiveOnline today has achieved its full potential and become a full-featured platform for supporting innovation processes and monitoring flows.
Launched in 2006, Nordiska Patent was a database of all Nordic patents, searchable in full text. More than 300,000 searches had been carried out on Nordiska Patent with interest both in Sweden and abroad. Nordiska Patent ceased operations in 2015.
During the first few years the business grew, and the number of employees increased. In 2007, the company moved to a new office located in the heart of Stockholm’s Södermalm district.
A growing reputation led to an increasing interest from European attorney firms. Uppdragshuset started to expand the client base to include international patent attorney firms, getting involved in high profile validity searches. In 2013 the company assisted with several large litigations and provided valuable search results to support clients in challenging their competitors’ patents.
In 2015 AutoMatch, now IPscreener, was launched, it is an AI driven IPR tool to validate innovative ideas by automatically analysing an idea expressed in plain text. It has been continuously developed and upgraded to meet clients’ growing expectations. Today IPscreener has evolved to its 5th generation and has become a powerful tool to help boost the search procedure and improve the quality of the evaluation process.
The tool development department was organized into a separate company – AutoMatch Sweden AB. With this re-organization a dedicated focus on the business development of the tools, as well as a standalone legal entity, was achieved.
The team has grown from four former Swedish patent examiners to sixteen people coming from 3 different patent offices, 5 countries, mastering 7 languages, and stronger than ever. The number of offices also increased with the opening of a new office in Berlin during 2020. The Berlin office is a big step to expand company’s physical footprint in the global market.