Search multiple parts of LexisNexis® Classification in one click from the Search tile, including TechDiscovery, our new similar family searching tool
What is the Quick Search Tile?
How to run a search from the Search Tile
Selecting the relevant search option
- Organisations
- Universal Technology Taxonomy
- Reports
- Patent Numbers/Families
- Similar Family Searching (Tech Discovery)
What is the Quick Search Tile?
The Search tile gives you results from multiple parts of Classification, as well as providing quick links to other tools within the platform. Simply start your search by using the search tile from the Classification home page (shown below). The search covers: patent families, organisations, technology search, your existing Cipher reports, and searching for similar patent families via TechDiscovery.
Advanced Tools
Highlighted in red below the search box itself are five links to different parts of the Classification platform, here is where they take you:
TechDiscovery - allows you to explore the patent landscape starting with a technology name, patents or text to find patent families that are similar to your examples.
Organisation Search - Organisation search within the Report Builder; Cipher's advanced reporting option.
Boolean Search - Boolean search within the Report Builder.
Patent Upload - Patent Upload within the Report Builder.
Landscape builder - Landscape search within the Report Builder.
How to run a search from the Search tile
- Start your search using the 'Search field' at the top of the Classification home page.
- Enter the term of interest and click search (or press return on your keyboard)
- The results will populate (below) at which point you can select which relevant part of Classification to use first
The different results returned perform different tasks (detailed below).
Selecting the relevant search option
Not all types of results will be present for all searches. Only where applicable:
Organisations
By selecting one of the organisation results (e.g. 'Machine Learning' above), you will generate a report containing the company's entire patent portfolio. If you have access to the UTT (Cipher's Universal Technology Taxonomy) the portfolio will split into these classes. If not, the portfolio will be clustered. For any details about either method please contact the Classification team.
Universal Technology Taxonomy
Clicking a UTT class under this header will generate a landscape report for that particular subclass. (e.g. Machine Learning above). This will include every patent owner in this technology.
Reports
These results relate to your previously accessed or saved Classification reports. The name of the report shown here will either be the default name for the report, or whatever you changed it to.
Patent Numbers / Families
Type in a patent number to the Search tile and the platform will find the relevant family, presenting the Classification Family ID, shown highlighted in red. You can also search using the Classification Family ID itself. Click on the Classification Family ID (outlined below) to open the family in that window, or the 'open in' icon next to it, to open it in a new tab instead.
Handy Hint: You can also click 'Show more results in TechDiscovery' next to 'Similar families' to search for similar families to the one you entered, also shown outlined in red below.
Similar family searching (TechDiscovery)
Users can input a technology name, patent number/s or a piece of text relating to the technology to the Search tile.
TechDiscovery will then find similar families based on the inputted data. TechDiscovery allows you to explore the patent landscape for a technology, or look for patents that are similar to your examples. The technology 'Machine Learning' is shown as an example below. The TechDiscovery feature will open when you click 'Machine Learning' under similar families. You can then add other data to your search, or make your selections of relevant or irrelevant families to refine your search. More information can be found here.
Here are some other examples of data you can input to the Search tile, to search for similar patent families:
Searching using text:
The TechDiscovery feature will open when you click the text in blue under 'Similar families'. You can then add other data to your search, or make your selections of relevant or irrelevant families to refine your search.
Searching using patent numbers or patent family ID's:
The Tech Explorer feature will open when you click 'Show more results in Tech Explorer next to 'Similar families' highlighted in red. You can then add other data to your search, or make your selections of relevant or irrelevant families to refine your search.
The Classification families listed under the 'Similar families' header shown in the image above, are in fact similar families to the patent number you entered. This allows you to quickly review the most similar families to the one you initially searched for via the 'open in' icon next to each one listed. This opens the family details in a separate tab. Select 'show more results' to expand your view of similar families.
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