1) Select the Assignee of the patents returned. For example, if I worked for CompanyX and wanted all of my competitors patents (e.g., CompanyY) with rejections, I would choose CompanyY from the normalized assignee dropdown here.

2) Here you can add additional field codes to restrict the search. For instance, if you only want a particular class code or a particular term in the title, you can use field codes here to add to your search.

Note - if you only use the Base Query fields assignee dropdown and do not add any other fields, the search will be exactly like using the patent owners, query builder, or quick search, and isn't limited to patents with forward rejection data. In other words, if you choose "IBM" from the assignee dropdown (1), with no other fields, it will return the entirety of IBM's portfolio.

1) Blocking Assignee - Select the assignee that is doing the blocking. In other words, the assignee chosen here is the one that has been used by the USPTO to block a submitted application with a 102 or 103 rejection.

2) Rejection Type - Select the rejection type (102 or 103). Note that AcclaimIP breaks the 103 rejections down further by showing you where in the obviousness argument the patent is (e.g., if the 103 says "PatentX in view of PatentY in view of PatentZ" then PatentX is the 103.1, PatentY is the 103.2, and PatentZ is the 103.3).

3) Blocking App Status - Select the status of the app that is doing the blocking (i.e., is used by the examiner to block a newly filed app). This is the status of the app that is owned by the assignee chosen here in (1) on this section, the Record-Level Blocking Assignee dropdown, not the app owned by the assignee chosen in the Base Query section.

4) Rejection Date - Select the date or date range of when the rejection by the USPTO examiner occurred. Leaving this field blank will choose all date ranges (although of course this may be affected by date ranges chosen elsewhere, such as the filed date).

5) Caused Abandonment - When toggled On, this field restricts the search to only those that caused the blocked assignee (assignee chosen in the Base Query section) to abandon their application. Note that in rare instances, an abandonment may be overcome, but would still have the abandonment on the record. So it is possible to have a granted patent that was abandoned during the application process.

6) Caused Claim Amendment - When toggled On, this field restricts the search to only those that caused the blocked assignee (assignee chosen in the Base Query section) to have to amend their claims.

7) Caused Final Rejection - When toggled On, this field restricts the search to only those that caused the blocked assignee (assignee chosen in the Base Query section) to receive a Final Rejection from the USPTO.

8) CPC Class of Blocking App - Select the CPC class of the blocking assignee's app. This may be different than the CPC class of the blocked document based on the Base Query. In other words, if you chose G06F9* here, the blocking app that the USPTO examiner used in the 102/103 would have to have some G06F9 class. But the blocked document  may have had some H24L9 class. Also note that you can use more than one class, but you have to separate them with the OR boolean operator (e.g., H04L65/403 OR H24L9*)

1) No. Unique Blocking Applications - Select the number or range of numbers of unique blocking applications. This is tied to the Record-Level Rejection Query assignee/search term documents, since they are doing the blocking. Also note that this is unique applications (e.g., if the blocking document, patentX, has been used to block applicationY multiple times, applicationY would still only count once).

2) of Rejection Type - Select the rejection type(s) the number of unique blocked applications relates to. Note that these are cumulative. In other words, if you selected 2 only for the "No. Unique Blocked Applications" range, and selected both 102 and 103.1 for "of Rejection Type," the system would return documents with 2 unique blocked applications, whether they had 102 rejections, 103.1 rejections, or both.

3) Date of Most Recent Rejections - Select the date range of the most recent rejections. Note that this is not limiting all rejections to this date range, only the most recent one. Documents may have rejections older than your date range, as well.

4) No. Unique Blocking Assignees - Select the number or range of numbers of unique blocking assignees. This is tied to the Record-Level Rejection Query assignee/search term documents, since they are doing the blocking. Also note that this is unique applications (e.g., if the blocking document, patentX, has been used to block AssigneeY multiple times, AssigneeX would still only count once).