Searching Patent Publications
When you are searching by Publications, you can Dedup by the following:
- Publication No – In this case the records will be deduplicated based on their published numbers. For example in case of US, the published number for the application and grant are separate and so they will still appear separately in your search result if both the records match your query.
- Application No - In this case the records will be deduplicated based on their Application numbers. So a grant and its application will not show up separately in the search result.
- Show all Kind Codes– No deduplication is done and so you will see all matching records. Multiple kind codes against the same record may also appear as separate search results.
The Preferred Record option further decides which record to select while deduplication. So if you select “Latest Publication Date” then the Application No. dedup will keep granted record in the data set and exclude the corresponding application.
