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Updated on: Jun 29, 2017
Searching Within Your Search Results
Once you have created an initial search, you may wish to refine the search by further narrowing the search. This article shows you several ways to refine your search.
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Highlighting Terms and Keywords
AcclaimIP provides robust keyword highlighting capabilities to help you find terms and concepts within patent documents.
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How to Search in AcclaimIP
AcclaimIP allows you to search from various parts of the application. The areas where you'll do most of your searching is from these three windows:
- Quick Search Window
- Advanced Search Window
- Search Results' Refine Panel
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Logging into AcclaimIP.com
AcclaimIP provides comprehensive patent search and analysis capabilities.
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Charting Basics
Most patent research projects include charts and visulaizations which summarize your research. In general, reports should be introduced with a summary chart, table or other visualization. In this article we explore some ideas to help you make your patent charts and visualizations, clear, intuitive, easy to read and uncluttered.
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Assignee Normalization
Assignee names in AcclaimIP are normalized. This means that you can search on one version of a company name such has "IBM" and you'll get an inclusive search including 655 different versions of their name found in the patent database.
It is almost impossible to make sense of patent data if names are not normalized.
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Proximity Searching
Proximity searching is a basic technique you need to learn to find one term within a certain number of words of another search term.
Basic Syntax:
To do a proximity search, put your terms in quotation marks then add the tilde ( ~ ) character, then the maximum number of terms between the two or more terms you want to search.
"Toilet Seat"~3 --> Finds the "Toilet" and "Seat" within three terms of each other.
"Toilet Seat Cover"~5 --> Finds the the terms "toilet" and "seat" within 5 words of each other, and "Seat" and "Cover" also within 5 words of each other.
You can use as many terms as you wish in your proximity searches. As a general rule, use 2 to 4 to find the terms within the same phrase, 7 to 15 to find them in the same sentence, and 15 to about 25 to find the terms in the same paragraph or claim. Of course the distances are cumulative, a search with six terms within five words of each other can span up to 30 terms.
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Patent Collections Covered
The AcclaimIP database covers 94 authorities, including full-text US, EP, WIPO, and German collections. Our biblio/abstract collections include Japan, China, Korea, France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and many others.
Our full-text database has over 31 million records and including our biblio/abstract collection accounts for an total of 95 million patent records.
Coverage Specifically includes the following authorities:
- United States (US)
- Japan (JP)
- China (CN)
- Germany (DE)
- European Patent Office (EP)
- Korea (KR)
- France (FR)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WO)
- Great Britain (GB)
- Canada (CA)
- Australia (AU)
- Soviet Union (SU)
- Spain (ES)
- Austria (AT)
- Sweden (SE)
- Russia (RU)
- Taiwan (TW)
- Italy (IT)
- Switzerland (CH)
- Netherlands (NL)
- Belgium (BE)
- Brazil (BR)
- Denmark (DK)
- Finland (FI)
- Poland (PL)
- Norway (NO)
- South Africa (ZA)
- Mexico (MX)
- East Germany
- Hungary (HU)
- Czechoslovakia (CS)
- Portugal (PT)
- Argentina (AR)
- Ireland (IE)
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Czech Republic (CZ)
- Greece (GR)
- Hong Kong (HK)
- Israel (IL)
- Romania (RO)
- Singapore (SG)
- Turkey (TR)
- Yugoslavia
- Bulgaria (BG)
- India (IN)
- Ukraine (UA)
- Luxembourg (LU)
- Eurasian Patent Org (EA)
- Malaysia (MY)
- Slovakia (SK)
- Slovenia (SI)
- Philippines (PH)
- Colombia (CO)
- Croatia (HR)
- Morocco (MA)
- Peru (PE)
- Indonesia (ID)
- African Intellectual Property Org (OA)
- Egypt (EG)
- Uruguay (UY)
- Ecuador (EC)
- Estonia (EE)
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- Tajikistan (TJ)
- Cooperative Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GC)
- Mongolia (MN)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)
- Nicaragua (NI)
- Vietnam (VN)
- Trinidad/Tobago (TT)
- Thailand (TH)
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Compatible Browsers
AcclaimIP is a web application and is accessible using virtually any browser. We make extensive use of JavaScript, and we recommend the most recent version of the browser you choose which will always have the fastest possible JavaScript engine.
We test AcclaimIP on Windows, Macintosh, and Ubuntu Linux, as well as Chrome and Firefox browsers on each platform.
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AcclaimIP Layout
The AcclaimIP patent search and analysis software program is web based. This means you access the software using a standard web browser from any computer which you have access.
You can login from other computers and we do not tie the software to a particular domain, IP address or MAC address. Many of our users do their research outside of the office in the quiet of the evening and appreciate being able to login from any computer.
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