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▶️ Creating Simple Text and Field Searches on TotalPatent One

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You can create searches on TotalPatent One^® using search terms and fields to easily find the more relevant patents for your research. For a quick overview of searching on TotalPatent One, you can view the following LexisNexis^® IP video tutorial:

Note: The above video displays a prior version of the search page. For additional TotalPatent One videos and training documents, visit www.lexisnexisip.com/tp1. The information below includes explanations and examples of the search capabilities. You can also review the TotalPatent One User Manual for additional details.

Simple Text Searches

Field Searches

Simple Text Searches

You can enter a single search term or use multiple search terms with search operators. Phrases should be added in quotation marks.
Note: A free text search searches only the Full Text fields. For example, if you search for Bridgestone, TotalPatent One retrieves documents where Bridgestone appears in the Title, Abstract, Description, or Claims fields.

You can also use Field searching to restrict your searches to only specific fields of the documents. For more information, see Field Searches below.

The TotalPatent One services also includes the following enhancements for more complete search results:

Operators, Connectors, and Commands	Use different operators, connectors, and commands as a part of your object search to retrieve the most relevant on-point results. When using multiple search operators, nest your search terms in parenthesis. For example, nest a string of ORs in parentheses particularly when you use the NEARn operator. For more information, see Search Operators, Connectors, and Commands on TotalPatent One .
Wildcards and Variations of Words	Use wildcards to find variations of terms based on the root word entered. For example, chat* finds chart, chant, and chairlift. For more information, see Using Wildcards on TotalPatent One .
Stemming	The stemming feature looks for different tenses of verbs and derivationally related words with similar meanings, such as democracy, democratic, democratization. TotalPatent One supports stemming for English, French and German words. You can turn stemming off with the Stemming toggle on the search page. While stemming is on, you can disable the feature for individual terms by using quotation marks around the term. Note: Stemming does not work when using the NEARn connector. Use wildcards with terms when you use NEARn in your search.
Automatic Plurals	The TotalPatent One search engine looks for the plural form of the search term when you use the singular in your search or looks for the singular form of the term when you use the plural in your search. You can disable this feature by using quotation marks around the term to only search for that form of the word. For example, "chemicals" does not find chemical.
Automatic Possessives	The TotalPatent One search engine looks for the possessive form of search terms. For example, formula also finds formula's.

The following examples illustrate common methods of creating simple text searches:

Run the following search to find patents discussing the jet injector delivery of medication:

"jet injector" AND (medic* OR drug OR pharm*)

Run the following search to find patents that discuss wind within 15 words of alternative energy, turbine, or mill:

wind NEAR15 ("alternative energy" OR turbine OR mill)

Note: Include parenthesis around alternative terms when following the NEARn connector. Phrases should be in quotation marks or use a NEARn connector: wind NEAR15 ((alternative NEAR1 energy) OR turbine OR mill)

Note: There are certain characters and terms that cannot be searched on TotalPatent One without special action. For more information, see Reserved Characters and Keywords on TotalPatent One .

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Field Searches

A field search is essentially a segment search. It allows you to create a more precise search by searching for terms only in one part of the document. Each field has an alias to make searching easier. To conduct a field search, use the following format:

FIELD:(search terms)

Note: The colon and parenthesis are mandatory except when searching by date. When searching by date, the colon is mandatory and you must use square brackets ([ ]) instead of parenthesis.

For a full list of search aliases and field types, click Search Companion above the search box and view Appendix I: List of All Search Fields in the TotalPatent One User Manual.

Field	Alias	Description	Type
Number	PID	The publication ID	Number
	PN	Standardized publication ID	Number
	AN	Standardized application ID	Number
	PRN	Standardized priority number Note: A priority query searches for all documents with the same priority number, as the original 1st filed document has no priority number, just an application number, it will not be included in the results. When you want to include the 1st filed document, you add the application number to your query. For example, PRN: xxxxxx OR AN:xxxxxx	Number
Title	TI	Searches all titles independent of the language	Text
Kind Code	PK	Kind is a code relating to the class of patents, sometimes also referred to as a publication kind. For a list of Kind Codes, see the WIPO publication Inventory and Kinds of Patent Documents Listed According to the Issuing Industrial Property Office.	Text
Date Note: When searching with dates, use square brackets ([ ]) and the format YYYY-MM-DD in your search.	AD	Application Date For more information on searching by date, see Finding Documents by Date on TotalPatent One .	Date
	PRD	Priority Date For more information on searching by date, see Finding Documents by Date on TotalPatent One .	Date
	PD	Publication Date Note: For some authorities, such as US, the Publication Date is the same as the Issue Date or Grant Date. For more information, see Finding Documents by Date on TotalPatent One .	Date
Claim	CLM	Search the claim text only	Text
Claim	CLM1	Search the first claim only	Text
Name	EXM	Search the for the examiner name field	Text
Name	IN	Search the Inventor name field	Text
Assignees	PA	Search the original assignee	Text
	PACU	Search the current assignee	Text
	PAA	Searches all assignee name types, i.e., original, current, normalized, and standardized	Text
Application Authority	AC	Search the application authority For more information about searching for specific authorities, see Finding Documents by Patent Authority on TotalPatent One .	Text
Publication Authority	PC	Search the publication authority For more information about searching for specific authorities, see Finding Documents by Patent Authority on TotalPatent One .	Text
Legal Opposition	LSSOP	Free text search for all opposition data for US litigation docket numbers	Text
Counters Note: Use numbers and the <, >, and = symbols in your search terms	TCC	Searches for the total number of claims a document has	Arithmetic
	FCC	Searches for documents with a specified number of forward citations	Arithmetic
	BCC	Searches for documents with a specified number of backward citations	Arithmetic
	NPCC	Searches for documents with a specified number of non-patent literature citations	Arithmetic

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