Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Espacenet's new function "inventor/applicant's country of residence"


Original article (Japanese)

Everyone, are you using Espacenet?
Espacenet is a tool that can be used for

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・researching patent families
・researching foreign progress information
・researching foreign patents in English
・researching with CPC (Europe and America common patent classification)
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all the above mentioned functions. ↓ These are all free.
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/ 


It is a tool that many say,

"First, use Espacenet! " 
when Japanese users first research foreign patents.

*It's strange and interesting that they aren't usually recommended to "try the America Patent Office first" ^^


Regarding that Espacenet.
It has a new function added to it.

When you enter through the Japanese version screen, it doesn't have anything in particular displayed
but when you enter through the English version screen, it has proper instructions. (The search function is the same for both)
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Searching Espacenet for inventors or applicants with a specific country of residence About 40% of the documents in Espacenet are indexed with country of residence for the related inventors and applicants. Espacenet has a very useful feature that lets you search for partners residing in countries that could be of interest for your business or research field. In Advanced search, just enter the country code between square bracket (e.g. [DE]) in the Inventor(s) or Applicant(s) field. In Smart search, use the following query: in=[CC] or pa=[CC], e.g. in=[JP].