ip4inno 1 Module 3B: Part 1 Using the free worldwide patent database fast & easy patent searching EPO Roland Feinäugle

ip4inno 2 Agenda What is A walk through the major functions Patent „families“ Limitations Online help

ip4inno 3 Background to The database of ideas What it is and what it is not

ip4inno 4 Database content - Coverage Table of most important countries and their coverage here US EP WO DE, FR, GB JP China, Korea...

ip4inno 5 Searching in

ip4inno 6 Agenda What is A walk through the major functions Patent „families“ Limitations Online help

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8 EP documents published in the last two years Keywords in English Worldwide database containing almost 60 million documents WIPO documents published in the last two years

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ip4inno 11 More complex search possibilities

ip4inno 12 Hit lists and how to manage them

ip4inno 13 Hit lists and how to manage them Contain the information relating to your search as well as the list of the titles found The function "Compact" allows you to view 30 titles per page in the result list. The non-compact view shows 15 hits. Only the first 500 results will be retrieved Button "Refine search" to use in case of more than 500 results obtained OR "0" result found

ip4inno 14 Documents and how to navigate click on the title to open the document

ip4inno 15 Documents and how to navigate

ip4inno 16 Printing/downloading - Original documents (PDF format) - Function "Maximise" in the horizontal toolbar above the title - Function "Printing" or "Save full document" (document < 50 pages) - Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5 - Windows platform - Cookies on your PC are to be enabled

ip4inno 17 Printing/ downloading enter word displayed above

ip4inno 18 Agenda What is A walk through the major functions Patent „families“ Limitations Online help

ip4inno 19 What is a patent family A group of patents which, like a family, are all related to each other, in this case by way of the priority or priorities of a particular patent document.

ip4inno 20 "simple" patent family DocumentPriority D1P1 D2P1P2 D3P1P2 D4P2P3 D5P3P4

ip4inno 21 patent family = simple patent family (available as PDF)

ip4inno 22 INPADOC patent family DocumentPriority D1P1 D2P1P2 D3P1P2 D4P2P3 D5P3P4

ip4inno 23 Patent family

ip4inno 24 Patent family - My patents list

ip4inno 25 Patent family - My patents list

ip4inno 26 Agenda What is A walk through the major functions Patent „families“ Limitations Online help

ip4inno 27 Limitations Maximum of 4 search terms per field, 21 search terms and 20 operators per mask Maximum of 20 documents in "My patents list" Search terms only in English Logical operator is AND for combining search fields

ip4inno 28 Limitations No search within date ranges No statistical analysis possible No search history

ip4inno 29 Agenda What is A walk through the major functions Patent „families“ Limitations Online help

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