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Guide to STN Patent Databases
STEFAN;BRUGGEMEIER, ULF;SUMMER, HOLGER;
REEL/FRAME:017693/0459;SIGNING DATES FROM 20050804 TO
20050824
CHG Change of Owner, Inventor, Applicant
.......................................20070705
In order to allow efficient searching of these entries in the legal status fields together with those in the name fields
the Super Search Fields /PASS (/PA, /PAS, /LSPA) and /INSS (/IN, /INS, /LSIN) were introduced. (S) is Implied Proximity
in the /PA, /PAS, /LSPA, and /PASS search fields.
=> S BOSCH SIEMENS/PASS
175714 BOSCH/PA
172535 BOSCH/PAS
17920 BOSCH/LSPA
183268 BOSCH/PASS
(BOSCH/PA,PAS,LSPA)
408486 SIEMENS/PA
402110 SIEMENS/PAS
39891 SIEMENS/LSPA
424940 SIEMENS/PASS
(SIEMENS/PA,PAS,LSPA)
L1 19651 BOSCH SIEMENS/PASS
((BOSCH(S)SIEMENS)/PASS)
US applications often do not mention the name of the patent assignee (but rather the names of the inventors in the
PA field). With other publications in the patent family mentioning the company name a name search will often yield
a better result in INPAFAMDB due to the family structure of this database (see Family Search ):
AN 55870221 INPADOCDB ED 20080228 EW 200809 UP 20080307 UW 200810
IN EVANS JONATHAN A.; SCHLICKER SCOTT C.; LAMBI MARIOS
INS EVANS JONATHAN A, US; SCHLICKER SCOTT C, US; LAMBI MARIOS, US
PAS EVANS JONATHAN A; SCHLICKER SCOTT C; LAMBI MARIOS
PI US 20080038569 A1 20080214 English
AN 36499394 INPAFAMDB EDF 20080228 UPFB 20080313
INS EVANS JONATHAN A, US; SCHLICKER SCOTT C, US; LAMBI MARIOS, US
- SCHLICKER SCOTT, US
PAS EVANS JONATHAN A; SCHLICKER SCOTT C; LAMBI MARIOS
- BASF AG, DE; EVANS JONATHAN A, US; SCHLICKER SCOTT, US
PATENT FAMILY INFORMATION INPAFAMDB
+-------- PUBLICATIONS --------+ +-------- APPLICATIONS --------+
US 20080038569 A1 20080214 US 2007-837282 A 20070810
WO 2008019981 A1 20080221 WO 2007-EP58246 W 20070808
+--------- PRIORITIES ---------+
US 2006-822319P P 20060814
US 2007-837282 A 20070810
19.6.4 PATDPA
Search is possible by the names of Inventors (/AU, /IN, /INC, /INO, /INA), Patent Assignees (/CS, /PA, /PAC, /PAO,
/PAA) and Agents (/AG). The individual fields are assigned like this (shown here for the Patent Assignee, basically the
same for the Inventor fields):
/CS, /PA: Super-field of /PAC and /PAO
/PAC: Name of the current assignee
/PAO: Name of a former assignee
/PAA: Country, postcode, place of the assignee
In PATDPA a mixed index is used for the Inventor fields and a mixed index with interpretation of the search query for
the Patent Assignee fields (implied (S) proximity). Additionally, every name is entered in a number of different variations,
one of which is normalized, i.e. special characters, such as comma, hyphen, etc., are removed:
=> E WIDER/IN
E1 4 WIDENT ALAIN/IN