Questions tagged [search]
Questions relating to searching for or through patents and applications
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Ballpark estimate number of US patents a given large technology company has obtained by buying them or acquiring their assignees?
I'd like to get a ballpark estimate for how many US patents that a given large technology company has obtained by buying them or acquiring their assignees rather than filing them themselves.
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how would a patent examiner search for prior art on a patent application for a dating app?
There are literally 1000s of dating apps either on the market today or have went out of business.
If a new patent application comes in with a feature for a dating app, will the patent examiner check ...
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How can one obtain the list of news articles, blog posts and other online content that mention a given patent or patent application?
E.g., I see that this news article mentioned this patent application. How can one obtain the list of news articles, blog posts and other online content that mention a given patent or patent ...
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How to download patent sequence listings?
I'd like to download the associated sequence listing for a patent. However, I can't seem to find a convenient way. I am aware that Patentscope hast a sequence listing browser. However, even though I ...
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A question regarding Google patent search
This blog says:
‘AJD’, ‘AJDx’, ‘ADJ/x’, ‘xw’ – These are also proximity operators which are the same as NEAR, but matches must be in the same order.
However, when I searched in Google patent site ...
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How to clear all search results from USPTO Patent Public Search?
For the USPTO Patent Public Search tool, in Advanced Search, I would like to clear all prior queries. Though I was able to delete most of them, I can't delete one of them:
Unable to Delete Query L10:&...
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Searching for "important" patents
I would like to do patent search, let's say for patents related to windshield wipers, and have the search results include the number of times a patent has been referenced as prior art in other patent ...
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How to export results of search on US Patent Public Search?
On the US patent office search site, Patent Public Search, I can run a search and get many hits. How can I export these results to a file (any format is fine: csv, Excel, etc.)?
Or if you use a web ...
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How to export results of search on FreePatentsOnline?
Once I run a patent search on FreePatentsOnline, and get a list of 100+ patents, how can I export these results to a file (any format is fine: csv, Excel, etc)? Google Patents offers file export of ...
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If someone finds a patent by doing a search on Google Patents, can the searcher make hyperlinks for retrieving the same patent on a different site?
If someone does a search on Google Patents and the search results include a patent that is of interest to the searcher and/or relevant to the search, would the Google Patents service legally permit ...
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Contacting patent owner?
I am interested in contacting the owner of this patent EP2120618B1 I found through a google patent search. How can I find owner/inventor information?
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How to search for granted German patents, and not published German patent applications?
I would like to find all granted German patents owned by a certain company. When I ran a Basic Search on depatisnet, the returned results were all published patent applications in Germany, but not ...
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A Website like Connected Papers but for patents?
Is there a website that shows connections between citations and relevence between them like https://www.connectedpapers.com/ but for patents ?
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A U.S. patent is to issue on a future date; is there any way to view the patent prior to the date of issue?
A patent is provided (i) Notice of Allowance, (ii) Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due, or (iii) Issue Notification by the USPTO with a date set in the future.
Is there a way for the first named ...
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Are there regulations on how patent searches must be conducted by law firms?
For example, if someone is in the business of charging other people to do patent searches for them, are there laws that mandate how the search must be performed? For example, the business must search ...