Recent Updates
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Updated on: May 23, 2022
Matrix Query Patent Landscape Overview
A matrix is a table or a grid, containing both rows and columns that hold patent queries. Each cell contains the intersection of the two queries.
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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)
- Latvia (LV)
- Serbia (RS)
- Moldova (MD)
- Lithuania (LT)
- Guatemala (GT)
- Costa Rica (CR)
- Iceland (IS)
- Georgia (GE)
- Cuba (CU)
- Chile (CL)
- Cyprus (CY)
- Dominican Republic (DO)
- Monaco (MC)
- Zambia (ZM)
- Zimbabwe (ZW)
- Panama (PA)
- San Marino (SM)
- El Salvador (SV)
- Algeria (DZ)
- Kenya (KE)
- Honduras (HN)
- Malawi (MW)
- Montenegro (ME)
- Malta (MT)
- 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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Using the Display Query Button to Page Facets in Filters
On the Search Result window, there is a button at the top of the Refine Search panel called "Display Query." Display Query shows you the flattened query. A flattened query includes the code that is actually sent to the search engine based on selections you've made in the User Interface (UI).
Flattened Queries provide users two main benefits:
- Let's you review exactly what is being sent to the search engine. In other words, Display Query shows you how the UI impacts the query. It is helpful for advanced users to diagnose queries and analyze what the UI is doing.
- By extension, you can edit default behavior of the user interface by choose Display Query, flattening the query, then editing the result.
This second option allows you to, for example, use a Boolean NOT and remove selections, and effectively page the facets in each of the filters.
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Updated on: Mar 23, 2022
Overview
This guide goes into more depth on theory than our Help User Manual. The help user manual is designed to quickly tell you how to do something without bogging you down with theory which may be unnecessary for you.
In this manual we solve specific search problems using a series of tools in the application.
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Updated on: Mar 23, 2022
How Do I Sort My Search Results?
It is often desirable to sort your search results by something other than the default search order (we recommend you set your default sort to Relevance > Descending in your Preferences. For example, it is helpful to sort your search result by key value indicators including:
- Forward Citations
- Length of Claim One
- Family Size
- RVI (Relative Value Index)
Depending on the version of the software you have subscribed to, different columns will be available to you.
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AcclaimIP - Layout and Access
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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Finding Similar Natural Language With Class Fingerprinting
AcclaimIP offers another method for finding similar documents using a class profiling technique.
The logic is simple. If, for example, your source patent is classified in one primary (Original) class and cross references another four classifications, doesn't it stand to reason that patents with the most similar class profiles will also be similar to the target patent?
This technique is possible because AcclaimIP's search engine is aware of each classification's relative position in its hierarchy including all parent and children classes.
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Importing Custom Data into AcclaimIP
Data may be imported into AcclaimIP's custom fields in bulk. For example, you may wish to export some data from your IAM software platform and enter it into AcclaimIP for your searchers to leverage.
The most common data imported into AcclaimIP include:
- Rating Systems: Is the patent any good?
- Taxonomies: Where does the patent apply?
- Legal Data: Internal Document Numbers, Litigation Status, Abandonment Dates
Integrating your internal data into AcclaimIP is a great way to leverage past work with your IP team.
Administrators can import data to all custom fields in a single import attempt. However, when you are learning the process, we recommend you start with a single field before you tackle importing 25 fields or more at one time.
Disclaimer:
The data used in these examples are entirely made up for demonstration purposes and do not represent any entity's custom data.
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Managing Custom Data Fields
If you have Custom Data Fields feature enabled, and you have the rights to administer custom data fields, you'll see several new options in your Start menu
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Searching Custom Field Including Finding Empty
You may be familiar with the FIELD field code to find empty data fields in any normal AcclaimIP patent data field. The FIELD field code also works for custom fields.
For example, let's say you define a custom field to categorize patents, and you name it "Technology" and give it a field code _TAX.TECH. Remember all custom field codes begin with a leading underscore character to prevent user-defined field codes from colliding with AcclaimIP's standard field codes.
FIELD:isEmpty_TAX.TECH --> Finds all patents where the _TAX.TECH custom field contains no data.
You'll find that you'll use this query quite often when you want to track the progress of some workflow you designed for you and your group.
For example, let's say you want to rate and rank your entire portfolio along several dimensions. You might create custom fields for your rating system, then query the fields for the empty state (or NotEmpty state) to see how many patents are left to rate.
The inverse is also true:
FIELD:isNotEmpty_TAX.TECH --> Finds all patents with data in the _TAX.TECH custom data field.
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