Frontier IP Group, a specialist in commercialising university intellectual property, today announces it is taking a 43% equity stake in Elute Intelligence Holdings Limited (“Elute” or the “Company”).

The Company is developing novel software tools to intelligently search complex documents, such as patents and contracts, and to detect evidence of plagiarism, collusion and copyright infringement.

 Elute is being formed from an existing UK business, CFL Software Limited (“CFL”), and will also include complementary intellectual property (“IP”) developed by Frontier IP. In addition to the IP, the Group will also earn its equity by providing a range of commercialisation services, such as facilitating scale up and direct, hands-on support for technical development through its in-house development capability. No cash consideration has been paid by the Group for its equity stake in Elute.

The Company will build on CFL’s current software technology to improve user experience and develop new applications for different markets.

The technology, based on computational forensic linguistics, compares and analyses documents to identify similarities between them by mimicking the way people read. It has been developed by CFL’s  founder David Woolls, an expert in forensic linguistics, who will continue to work for Elute. CFL’s business development director Peter Fischer is joining the Elute board alongside Matthew White, Frontier IP’s Chief Commercialisation Officer.

Peter has more than 20 years’ experience in knowledge-intensive software solutions. He has formerly worked for Thomson Reuters and was EMEA regional director for US patent-translation company MultiLing. Current CFL customers include the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (“UCAS”), which is using a version of the software called Copycatch to detect plagiarism in students’ personal statements. Others include academic institutions, commercial researchers and lawyers.