Espacenet smart search

Smart search - getting started. If this is the first time you are consulting the EP Register, please have a look at the introductory video below. However, once you have got the , you can click Refine search in the breadcrumb navigation to select one of the three full-text database collections from the dropdown menu.

The default operator is AND. Left has precedence over right. No operator has precedence by default. Erfahrene Nutzer können auch Suchbefehle eingeben.

Außerdem können Sie Feldbezeichner verwenden, d. Codes, die vor den Schlagwörtern eingegeben werden müssen. If you encounter problems when entering keywords in the Classification Search mask, please clear your CACHE. Simply click your preferred language in the banner. To find what you are looking for, you can search by keyword(s) in the field at the top of this page.

Please choose your keywords carefully to avoid getting too many. Search terms have to be entered in English to ensure the correct are retrieved. Patents or inventors are often mentioned in texts found on the Internet giving precious indications to be able to continue the search in patent databases.

Using free patent search tools is not necessarily more cost effective than using fee based databases. This last principle belongs to common sense. It has a user-friendly interface available in almost all European languages. It enables users with little or no experience in.

The text shown in the description is usually that of the A document, even if the document you are viewing is the B document. If you do not enter a field identifier and your search term conforms to the CPC or IPC pattern, the search engine will automatically recognise your search term as a classification symbol and use cl as the general field identifier. Where to search for patent information ? The easiest way to retrieve patent-related information is to use online databases.

We can find databases including the full text of patent documents, but also databases presenting a “summary” of them. Espacenet offers users a number of different types of help. The search terms can be entered in any order.

This help file is no longer maintained. It will be deleted in due course. Search term(s): Global Dossier The Global dossier service provides single-point access to dossier content of IPfamily members of EP applications in the European patent register.

Just type in your terms, and the search engine will try to guess what you mean. You can perform searches in the worldwide database. This is the case in records for which the priority country code and date are known and recorded but the original number is not.

Bibliographic coverage of the worldwide database. Can I search for non-patent literature (XP) documents? Yes, you can search for XP documents that have been classified or cited in a search report. You cannot retrieve an XP document by the name of the author or limit a search to XP documents only. An inventor is a person designated as the inventor in the patent application.

There may be more than one inventor. However, please note that the highlighting option is set per default. The inventor can also be the applicant.

If you want to de-activate the highlighting of search terms, please uncheck the box under the Settings tab.