patentGate is a modular designed, user specific adaptable, platform independent, web-based client-server application program to manage patent data in industrial companies. patentGate supports the search in patent archives and enables extensive edit and maintain functions which allow a comfortable distribution of patent data within the patent department and the construction respective development department of your enterprise. patentGate enables the controlled access to data as well as maintaining the patent data by user specific privileges. With the user related role model a purposeful controlling of the information flow is possible. In patentGate your workflow in the industrial departments is realised without any change of media in one intranet surface with database connectivity. Based on the different task areas of participants in the patent monitoring the application is designed so that each user sees only the menu items that he needs for his tasks. The following user groups are predefined in patentGate:

Administrator	Set the configuration
Order/ Bestellung	Fee-based ordering of documents
Guest	Restricted functions: only simple search
Patent department	Distribute documents in the development department
Verteiler	As Viewer, additionally distribute documents
Viewer	Development department - rates the importance of the document of the enterprise

A more detailed description of the roles you find here. All users can search in the menu equipped simple mode in bibliographic data and save search queries and results. All except of guests can use additionally the expert mode to phrase extensive queries.