ESPACENET

Esp@cenet:

• A database of more than 60 million records
• Source of technical information
• A support for innovation, entrepreneurship
• Designed for the scientist, engineer or technologist
• Used also by patent experts
• Multinational
• Worldwide Database --- Data from 85 patent authorities
• Free of charge

Aim:

• To offer basic patent information to individuals, small and mediumsized enterprises, students etc.
• To increase awareness and use of patent information at the national and European levels
• To support innovation, reduce wastage in the innovation cycle

esp@cenet –Flexibility

Espacenet is flexible

§  Simple search with basic knowledge

§  Advanced search with more experience

§  Semi-profesional search combining classification with keywords

§  SmartSearch is a new Google-like search engine

§  delivers complete patent documents

Coverage:

Titles (EN and original) : from 1978

Abstracts (EN and original) : from 1978

Int. Cl. : from 1978

EP Cl. (ECLA): from 1978

Full-text : from 1978

Other collections vary in availability.

What can you do with esp@cenet?

Ø  Find the state of the art

Ø  Watch new technologies emerge

Ø  Find solutions to your technical problems

Ø  Check the legal status of a patent

Ø  Discover what your competitors are developing

Ø  Find business partners

esp@cenet - access through  www.epo.org

esp@cenet – access www.espacenet.com

Kind Codes [EP and WO]

A1 – App with search report

A2 – App without search report

A3 – Search report

A1 = A2+A3

B1 – Granted Patent*

B2 – Amended Granted spec* [ * No granted WO patent ]

If you see U or D as a kind code, these indicate

   “utility model” and

    “Design patent”. 

Important INID CODES:

(11) – Publication Number

(13) – Type of document

(22) – Date of filing

(32) – Priority Date

(51) – IPC Code

(54) – Title of published document

(71) – Applicant

(72) – Inventor

INPADOC Legal Information & EP Register

INPADOC LEGAL

o   Legal status of EP/WO documents

o   Can access Register Plus in two ways

§  Straight from esp@cenet

§  https://register.epoline.org/espacenet/regviewer

Searching Options

       Keyword Search:

§  Use “Abstract” search field

§  or/and

      IPC  --- Will bring more accurate results

Summary–

Semi-professional search in bibliographic data of a wide range of patents worldwide

high quality data set, same as for examiners at the EPO

Keyword and classification search

Smart search in beta test

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