Result page

Here you will see your search results and information about your project in detail.

1. Toolbox tab contains functions about your project for sorting, exporting etc.
2. Contains a summary of your current project version.
3. This tab contains all your search results from different patent indexes.
4. Statistics and Highlights.

Toolbox functions

Export function

1. Click on export.
2. Choose what format you want to export to.
   1. Excel ranked - Exports all ranked patents to a excel document.
   2. PDF ranked - Exports all ranked patents to a pdf document.
   3. USPTOIDS - Export all ranked patents to a XML file.
      1. Remember to unpack the zip file and open the .xdp-file. Read more USPTO.
   4. Excel all - Exports all patents from your search ranked or not.

Example files when exporting

Excel - result_ref_E.g Reference_exportdate_2019-10-25.xls 

Pdf - result_ref_E.g Reference_exportdate_2019-10-25.pdf

USPTOIDS - IDS_ref_E.g Reference_exportdate_2019-10-25.zip

My Evaluation

This is used to filter out patent based on your ranking of them.

1. First click on the ranking you want for the document.
   1. Noise grey - not relevant to your idea.
   2. Backround green- only background information was retrived.
   3. Related orange - relevant prior art is present. 
   4. Similar red - indicates a match found.
2. Click on "my evaluation" to toggle it ON.
3. Select filter based on rank.
   1. E.g. Select unrated to see all unrated document in your search.
   2. With the tool toggled OFF all documents will be visible regardless of ranking.

Quick View

This function is used to show a more compact view of the results showing patent number and titles.

Extended family toggle

Used to toggle show/hide extended family in your search.

An extended patent family is a collection of patent documents covering a technology. The technical content covered by the applications is similar, but not necessarily the same. Members of an extended patent family will have at least one priority in common with at least one other member - either directly or indirectly.

Want to know more? Click here Espacenet.

Highlight Toggle

Used to toggle highlight function on and off.  Highlight.

This tool can also be used in full size document view.

Reference and Version tab

1. Here you can switch between different versions of your idea and add general notes about the project.
2. This data is imported from when you created your idea.
   1. You can add, remove or make changes here, to take effect you need to run a new version.
3. "Show only new hits" -toggle is used to filter out result you have already seen.
   1. Useful when you have added, removed or changed anything inside "Queried Tab".
4. Click "run new version" when you want to do a new search. 

Index tab and search results

1. Here you will see your different search index e.g boost, FTO and master.
2. Information about the patent number and title.
   1. Click on the name (e.g US9927975 orto see a full size view of the document (will open a new window).
   2. Click on Pdf -icon to see original patent document or to download a copy. (will open a new window).
3. A summary for this specific patent document containing first publilshed, by whom and patent classes.
4. To view the document on Espacenet.
5. Use the comment button  to add comment.
   1. Useful for e.g notes about a document.
6. You can use the ranking system to easier filter out relevant patent documents in your search.
   1. Click once to rank e.g. noise. 
   2. Click again on noise to remove a rank.

Full size document view

1. Contains all information about first published date, published by whom, first priority , classes and family members.
2. In this colum you can read about title, abstract and claim. See note.
3. A Description for this patent. See note.
   1. Click on image to enlarge view.
   2. By default the document is zoomed into the most relevant paragraph identified, where that text passage is highlighted (Lightblue).
4. The highlight tool will be here if it's toggled ON in result page.