Thursday, July 25, 2013

Patents search

'www.freepatentsonline.com' can be used for Patents search. In this site, we could list down the patents based on several search conditions. I.e. If we want to list down the patents filed by indian inventors, we should use ICN/IN in the search term. ICN stands for 'Inventors Country Name' and IN stands for 'India' (Country Code Table). Similarly the patents database can be searched for several other conditions.

For example, to search patents for 'heterogeneous multiprocessor' filed by indian inventors in-between the period 2007 to 2009, the search condition should be as follows:

APD/01/01/2007->12/31/2009 AND ICN/IN AND (heterogeneous AND multiprocessor)

The links listed below can be used to get introduced to the search condition keywords:
Also consider whether you would require 'Word Stemming' option enabled for your search. By default, it is enabled. Enabling this for a search term, it would search for all variants of a search term. If you would like narrow down the search in particular to your search term, then you just disable it. (for more info on this)