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samo
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I am searching for patents whose assignees consisting of names of more than 1 word. For example, I want to search for a company called 'Big Boy', but always the search engine (http://ep.espacenet.com/ or uspto) always gives me more results than what I want. I try using double quotes "Big Boy" but it still gives me the combination of the two words. It appears the default is 'or' rather than 'and' between the words in the query.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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JimIvey
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Re: Pulling hair with Patent Search
« Reply #1 on: Jul 21st, 2006, 10:22pm » |
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In the USPTO simple search, you would type "big" as the term for field 1 and select "Assignee Name" as the field type and type "boy" as the term for field 2 and select "Assignee Name" as the field type. Be sure the pull-down menu between the two fields is selected as "AND."
When you click "Search", you'll see that your complete search string is "AN/big AND AN/boy". If you're clever, you can extrapolate from there and add more words to the assign name or try different names.
I hope that helps.
Regards.
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