Espacenet search

Espacenet : free access to millions of patent documents. Find out if your invention is unique or if other inventors have filed patent applications that are considered to be prior art. This site won’t let us show the. Classification search. You can enter inventor or applicant names, numbers, dates, keywords and classes in any order without having to specify the search field for each search term.

If you have found a number (for example in an article or magazine) but you do not know what it represents (application, publication, priority or NPL reference number, for example) or which country it comes from, you can use the Smart search option to find the relevant document.

You can also search for relevant CPC symbols by starting with a simple query in the search fiel followed by a click on Search. The more stars that are displayed to the left of the description of the group, the more frequently the search query occurs in the documents of this group. The maximised view is now fully stand-alone, meaning that users can leave documents open in this mode while continuing to search in espacenet. In Internet Explorer, when a user selects to export a list, and selects Open from the prompt dialogue window, Excel is opened showing the respective information for the list.

Patent search A service provided in co-operation with the EPO. Can I search for non-patent literature (XP) documents? It has a user-friendly interface available in almost all European languages.

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Smart Search kan ook door professionele onderzoekers gebruikt worden aangezien de zoektermen ook heel precies gedefinieerd kunnen worden. For more information have a look at the help file on Smart search - operators. The Smart search mask lets you use proximity operators as well as comparison operators (e.g. any, within, all). 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. You can search in the full text of all these applications. New EP applications are normally added to the database every Wednesday (after 1hrs). They are available in the worldwide database shortly afterwards. The data of the Belgian patents are produced by the Belgian Intellectual Property Office (OPRI).

We provide access to the largest single source of technical information in the world: our databases containing millions of patent documents. Discover the potential. In Smart search , you can enter the classification symbol(s) with or without the field identifier. 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.

Commercial patent databases usually offer extra value, by the number of fields you can access, and due to the content of the abstract that has been. WELCOME Welcome to the European Patent Register, the place to find procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the European Patent Office. If this is the first time you are consulting the EP Register, please have a look at the introductory video below.

Text search can be made in English, in titles and abstracts.

The Worldwide EN, Worldwide FR and Worldwide DE databases only contain documents published in English, French and German, respectively. Everything within those quotes will be treated as a single search term and the order will be respected. All terms entered within quotes will be found within the field identifier, although perhaps not in the order in which they appear. The of the European Patent Office (EPO).

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