Quick Search Form

You can search quickly by using full text, assignee and inventor information. The search for patents using full text and assignee and inventor information is called as Quick Search.

Apart from a cleaner interface, users can save the most popularly searched fields to a layout template for easy access the next time. By default, there are two base templates provided – One for Search by publications and other for search by Families. Easy access options have been provided to the search tools and scripts to make the respective functionality easily accessible to users.

The search form is integrated with multiple Smart Technology, Company and Classification real-time suggester which speed up your search query formation time.

To do a quick search

1. On the Home page, select Quick Search from Search drop down menu.
2. The Quick Search screen will be displayed.
3. Select Latest Publication Date, Earliest Publication Date or Earliest Application Date from Preferred Record option. If you are working on one-member per family, choose Earliest Publication Date or Earliest Application Date.
4. Select deduplicate options if you want to restrict the search by Application/Patent and also by one-member per family (Simple/INPADOC).
5. Select the field code you want to search within and type its search term. 
6. Select the next field you want to add to you search query. You can choose to combine the first field with the second using an AND/OR/NOT.
7. Select Limit By option to narrow any entered search query into relevant classes or by other fields.
8. Enable / Disable Saved Search Script option, to see the search is added to a search script that is shown in a separate window on the right. 
9. Click Search.

Each search form has two buttons: Get Count and Search. Click on Get Count to see the record count for the particular query. Click on Search to view the Search Results.

Note: It is not mandatory to fill all the fields to search.

Creating new templates within Quick Search

You can make and save different templates. By default, there are two base templates provided – One for Search by publications and other for search by Families.
These templates can contain combination of different fields which are used regularly. And once saved these templates can be used for your future searches.

To save a new template, first add all the fields you want to keep to the display using the +Add button and then enter the template name in the box above the fields and click on the save button.

Saving Deduplicate Template

You can save Templates based on Families or Publications. Further you can select the countries you want the data to be restricted to and preferred document option

The saved templates can be applied to future searches.

Limit By - option to limit search query by another field

Limit by option can be used to limit the search results based on the different field options provided such as by classification or Assignee etc. Using this feature you can see only those Classifications or Companies that have matched your existing search query. So, this brings greater efficiency when restricting your data set at the search query stage itself.

Additional support has been added to the limit by option to allow you to filter by Alive (Active) Records.

You can now limit the entire data set to Alive Records in addition to limiting the data set by the other existing fields.

The Limit By will also show you the query on which you are using the Limit By option and when you mouse over it, you will see the complete query.