You can customize your research session by changing your settings in your Preferences.  For example, you can determine which collections or patent authorities you want AcclaimIP to search by default.  Some other Preferences you can set include:

• Look and feel of the application.
• Change the default size of many of the windows in the application.
• Change how many results appear per page.
• Change which data columns appear.
• Default date range searched.
• Word stemming turned on or off by default.
• Turn highlighting on or off by default.
• Modify auto-save settings such as how many recent searches AcclaimIP remembers automatically.
• Set idle time before AcclaimIP automatically logs you out and terminates your session.

AcclaimIP provides comprehensive patent search and analysis capabilities.

When patents are examined in patent offices around the world a special group of patent classifiers as well as the examiners classify the patents.  They do a remarkable job in my opinion.  Classification searching is the best, and really only way, to do a credible job of isolating technologies for patent landscapes and comparing two portfolios without doing extensive manual classification yourself.  I'll just say it, a lot of patent search professionals don't trust, don't like and rarely use classification searching.  While I think it is a big mistake, I understand it.  Classification analysis is not handled well in other tools that I have seen.

Clearly, all patents are not classified perfectly, and some patents aren't classified at all and dumped into catch-all classes, such as the 1/1 class in the US Classification system.  But with the vagaries of human language it is your best bet.

AcclaimIP handles classification in very powerful ways as will be explained in this and other chapters of the Help Manual.