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].

I tried using the Advanced Search. This is an example of it in use.

Example) Who are the applicants from Israel who have applied for an "artificial heart"?

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Recently, I have often heard that "unique ventures regarding medical equipment
are commonplace in Israel, besides America," so
I thought, "Maybe there are applicants who are working on an artificial heart," and did a search on that.

 


<Search Example>
In Espacenet's Advanced search,


I enter "artificla and heart" in the name and summary,




and [IL] in the applicant field. I conduct the search.　　
 *The square brackets [ ] are necessary.



<Search results>
There is a record of "Israeli applicant applying in America."




I see!
I already thought there was a code for the country of residence [IL] after the applicant's name, but apparently this has become an object for searching.

Furthermore,

>about 40% of Espacenet records
>includes the country of residence of involved inventors or applicants as a search index.

This means that about 40% of the total records contain country of residence codes!



The following is just a hypothesis, but
if "40% contain country of residence codes", then

<fieldset>・the old applications hardly contain country of residence codes?
・applicants with priority rights have country of residence codes?
・conversely, maybe local applications don't have country of residence codes?
・there might be differences depending on the country of application (country of official issue)?</fieldset>

The above can
also be deduced.


In any case, as mentioned in the announcement on Espacenet,

It seems that Espacenet now has a new function
for you to search for partners that live in countries of interest

for your business or field of research.


That's all for now!


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