INTANGIBLE NOT INVISIBLE ADVANCED SEARCH GUIDE: Supported fields and operators for Boolean searching in Cipher www.cipher.ai Search Guide February 2018
Example search queries: Must contain any instance of "electric" AND "toothbrush" (or "tooth" AND "brush") where the status is granted Example: electric AND (toothbrush OR (tooth AND brush)) status:granted Must contain any instance of "robot" (e.g. robot, robots, robotic, robotics) AND "vacuum" OR "hoover" where the status is alive (pending or granted) in 2018 and excludes patent families ONLY in China NOTE: Cipher will search and include expired patents by default. Include the following as part of your search query if these aren t required: AND alive_at:2018 Example: robot* AND (vacuum OR hoover) alive_at:2018 NOT only_in_territory:cn Operators: The following operators connect your search strings. Use these operators in your keyword search to narrow or broaden your search query. Operator: Example: Searches: A vacuum MUST contain A e.g. must contain the word "vacuum" A AND B vacuum AND cleaner (vacuum cleaner) MUST contain A and B e.g. must contain the word "vacuum" AND "cleaner" The use of parenthesis groups together the terms e.g. must include "electric vacuum" A OR B vacuum OR hoover MUST contain A or B (or both) e.g. must contain the word "vacuum" OR "hoover" OR both NOT A NOT electric Must NOT contain A e.g. must NOT contain the word "electric" A* tele* Wildcard multiple characters e.g. must contain the word "tele" (television, telephone, telegraph, teleport) "A B" "electric vacuum cleaner" Match exact phrase e.g. must contain the phrase "electric vacuum cleaner" title: A title:cleaner The field "title" must contain A e.g. must contain the word "cleaner" in the patent title [A TO B] [2000 TO 2010] Range from A to B inclusive e.g. range must include the years 2000 TO 2010 {A TO B} {2000 TO 2010} Range from A to B exclusive e.g. range must include the years 2001 TO 2009 Search Guide February 2018 2
Supported fields: Cipher s supported fields help narrow your search string. Use these fields when specifying your patent search to a specific area e.g. by jurisdiction. Jurisdiction (See page 6 for accepted country codes) granted_in_territory: granted_in_region: pending_in_territory: pending_in_region: ever_existed_in_territory: granted_in_territory:gb granted_in_region:europe pending_in_territory:(gb US) pending_in_region:row ever_existed_in_territory:us Patent families granted, or pending, or ever existed in given territory(s)/region(s) Patent families that have ever included a member in a given territory. The status of that patent can be granted, pending, expired, rejected or inactive Accepted regions: EUROPE, ROW (Rest of World) granted_only_in_territory: granted_only_in_region: pending_only_in_territory: pending_only_in_region: granted_only_in_territory:gb NOT granted_only_in_territory:us Patent families granted, or pending, ONLY in given territory(s)/region(s) NOT : excludes patent families ONLY granted in US only_in_territory: only_in_region: only_in_territory:cn only_in_region:row Patent families ONLY in given territory(s)/region(s) Accepted regions: EUROPE, ROW (Rest of World) Status and Age pending_at: granted_at: alive_at: granted_projected: pending_at:2018 granted at:2017 alive_at:2016 granted_projected:2030 The status is pending in the year 2018 The status is granted in the year 2017 The status is alive (pending/granted) in the year 2016 Patent families projected to be alive AND granted in the year 2030 status: status:granted status:pending status:(granted OR pending) The current status of a patent family is granted The current status of a patent family is pending The current status of a patent family is granted OR pending priority_date: granted_date: expiry_date: priority_date:2010 granted_date:2010-05-25 expiry_date:{2010 TO 2012} Includes patents with the priority date in 2010 Includes patents that granted at this specific date Includes patents expired from 2009 to 2011 Note: [ and ] mean: include the boundary { and } mean: exclude the boundary The can be mixed however you want eg.: Search Guide February 2018 3
[A TO B] mean: including A and B [A TO B} mean: including A, excluding B Note: combination of date and year in a range is not supported, e.g. [2010 TO 2013-02-25] would not work granted_age: granted_age:3 Patents that are alive and granted three years since priority date pending_age: pending_age:7 Patents that have been pending for seven years alive_age: alive_age:5 Patents that are alive (granted or pending) five years since priority date age: age:18 Patents that are eighteen years old since their priority date Cost total_cost: total_cost:[20000 TO 25000] Patent families with a specific total cost to date Note: In theory, exact cost match should be possible, ie: total_cost:100. But in practice, the cost that you see is rounded, so very rarely do you find an exact match Note: Default currency: GBP total_cost_projection: total_cost_projection:[20000 TO 25000] Approximation of remaining total cost for granted patent families Title title: title:headphone The title must contain the word "headphone" Abstract abstract: abstract:headphone The abstract must contain the word "headphone" Conversion conversion: conversion:2 The first patent of the family that granted two years since its priority date Note: Key jurisdiction rule applies. Any patent family with a member in a major geography (US, EPO, DE, UK, JP, KR) will be considered granted with the first of the major geographies to grant. The few patent Search Guide February 2018 4
families without members in major geographies will be considered granted when the first of any geography grant. Inventor inventor: inventor:"john smith" Patent families which include inventor name Owners owner: owner:"panasonic Corporation" owner:"panasonic" OR "Dolby" The name of the organisation(s) whose patent portfolio you want to search Patent numbers patent_numbers: patent_numbers:("us3953806a" OR "US9076449B2") Patent families that include specific patents patent_number:us3953806a CPC codes cpc_code: cpc_code"c11d 3/162 " Patent families that contain specific CPC codes cpc_code:("c11d 3/162 OR A23G 9/327") Family IDs family_ids: family_ids:c0006940688 Patent family identifier unique to Cipher Search Guide February 2018 5
Accepted country codes: Code Code Andorra AD Gulf Cooperation Council GC Malaysia MY Albania AL Georgia GE Nicaragua NI Armenia AM Gibraltar GI Netherlands NL African Regional IP Organization AP Greenland GL Norway NO Argentina AR Greece GR New Zealand NZ African Intellectual Property Austria AT Guatemala GT Organization OA Australia AU Hong Kong, SAR China HK Panama PA Bosnia and Herzegovina BA Honduras HN Peru PE Belgium BE Croatia HR Philippines PH Bulgaria BG Hungary HU Poland PL Brazil BR Indonesia ID Portugal PT Benelux Office for IP BX Ireland IE Romania RO Belarus BY Israel IL Serbia RS Canada CA India IN Russian Federation RU Switzerland CH Iceland IS Saudi Arabia SA Chile CL Italy IT Sweden SE China CN Jordan JO Singapore SG Colombia CO Japan JP Slovenia SI Costa Rica CR Kenya KE Slovakia SK Serbia and Montenegro CS Kyrgyzstan KG San Marino SM Cuba CU Cambodia KH Soviet Union SU Cyprus CY North Korea KP El Salvador SV Czechia CZ South Korea KR Thailand TH East Germany DD Kazakhstan KZ Tajikistan TJ Germany DE Laos LA Tunisia TN Denmark DK Liechtenstein LI East Timor TP Dominican Republic DO Sri Lanka LK Turkey TR Algeria DZ Lithuania LT Trinidad and Tobago TT Eurasian Patent Organization EA Luxembourg LU Taiwan, Republic of China TW Ecuador EC Latvia LV Ukraine UA Estonia EE Morocco MA United States Minor Outlying Islands UM Union of Countries under the European Community Patent Convention EF Monaco MC United States of America US Egypt EG Moldova MD Uruguay UY European Union IP Office EM Montenegro ME Uzbekistan UZ EPO EP Macedonia MK Vatican VA Spain ES Mongolia MN Viet Nam VN Finland FI Macao, SAR China MO WIPO WO France FR Malta MT Yugoslavia YU Metropolitan France FX Malawi MW South Africa ZA United Kingdom GB Mexico MX Zambia ZM Zimbabwe Code ZW Search Guide February 2018 6