CONTENT

Structural Data Fields

Boolean Operators

Data Format

Structural Data Fields

The following is the list of the searchable patent information included in the structural search.  The structural search fields are divided into date and text fields.

Date Field

The application provides the entry of the range of the dates.  This allows you to narrow your search to the specified range of date.  If you are only interested on the particular date, then you have to enter the same date for from and to date range.

• Filing Date
• Grant/Registration Date

Text Field

There is no restriction of the input length that you can key in for the text fields, and no verification of the input data will be done by the search engine.  If you have keyed in the wrong data format (ie. the information is correct but not in the correct format) for the particular field the system will return you No records are found.

• Application Number
• Publication Number
• UK or EP Application or Publication Number
• PCT Application Number
• PCT Publication Number
• IPC Symbols
• Priority Number
• Country Code for Applicant/Proprietor
• Country Code for Inventor
• Applicant/Proprietor
• Previous Applicant/Proprietor
• Inventor
• Title
• Abstract

Boolean Operators

NOT, AND, OR boolean operations are provided for the combined search across the different fields.

Priority of the boolean operators

The priority of the boolean operators is in the order of top to bottom.  

For example the search for A OR B AND C will be executed as (A OR B) AND C

Data Format

Note that '-' mean not applicable.

Field Descriptions and Search Notes

Field	Description	Types of Search	Remarks
Filing Date	Date of filing (Date of filing in United Kingdom for RUKPA cases)	Exact match
Grant / Registration Date	Date of Grant for cases under the Patents Act Date of Registration in Singapore for RUKPA cases	Exact match	Searches against the date of grant for applications filed under the Patent Act, and against the date of registration for RUKPA cases
Application Number	Application Number allocated by the Registry	Exact match	For RUKPA cases an application number 698/92 would be in the following format:9290698-1 last digit is a  computer-generated check-digit the check-digit can be obtained by doing an application number search using the frst 7-digit in Simple Search
Publication Number	Publication Number allocated by the Registry during the abstract publication for cases filed under the Patent Act during the first publication in the Patent Journal for RUKPA cases and PCT cases which entered national phase in Singapore	Exact match	Applicable only to published cases
UK or EP Application or Publication Number	United Kingdom or European Patent Publication Number for RUKPA cases United Kingdom or European Patent Application Number for transitional cases under section 116(6) of the Patent Act	Exact match	Applicable to RUKPA or section 116(6) cases only
PCT Application Number	Application number for PCT application allocated by receiving office	Exact match	Applicable to PCT cases which entered national phase in Singapore only
PCT Publication Number	Application number for PCT application allocated during international publication	Exact match	As above
IPC Symbols	International Patent Classification More information available from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (http://classifications.wipo.int/eng/main.htm)	Partial Match search possible Search up to one section class, subclass, groups and subgroups eg. A01B 1/02	Applicable only when application has been searched and published
Priority Number	Applicaction Number of the priority application filed in the priority country	Like match search
Country Code for Applicant/Proprietor	Country of residence of applicant or proprietor Two-letter code for representation of countries derived from WIPO Standards ST. 3 and ISO 3166-1:1997  (Code to Description) (Description to Code)
Country Code for Inventors	Country of residence of inventor Two-letter code as specified above (Code to Description) (Description to Code)		Available for all cases filed under the Patents Act.  Not available for RUKPA cases prior to 9590387-8 Available only for published cases
Applicant/Proprietor	Current applicant or proprietor	Partial match search possible
Previous Applicant/Proprietor	Previous applicants proprietors before transfer of interest of change of names	Partial match search possible	Information on records done prior to mid 1996 not available
Inventor	Inventor of invention	Partial match search possible	Available for all cases filed under the Patents Act.  Not available for RUKPA cases prior to 9590387-8 Available only for published cases
Title	Title of invention	Text search unless partial match search used Partial match search can be made
Abstract	Summary of the invention	Text search unless partial match search used Partial match search can be made	Applicable only to published applications filed under the Patent Acts and PCT cases entering national phase in Singapore, and not for RUKPA cases Availability dependent upon data conversion (data availability update)

Notes:

• 'RUKPA  cases' refers to patents registered under the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Act
• 'PCT cases' refers to international applications for patent filed under the Patent Co-operation Treaty

Partial match search

Partial match searches can be made using wildcards (*) eg. smith*, *smith, or *smith*.

• A name search using smith* may return Smith, John or SmithKline or Smith Incorporated (as opposed to a search using smith which will only return data like Smith Incorporated).
• An IPC search using A01* would return all records under the class A01 regardless of the subclass (eg. A01B or A01C).

Like match search

A like match search for priority number using 039297 may return 60/039297 or USA 039297 but not 039.297.  Similarly, a search on G9109308.2 would not return any hits if the data is stored as G 91 09 308.2.

Text search

A text search for title or abstract of invention using architecture will return all records with the word architecture. Full-stops and commas following the word will be ignored.