Merging assignee groups

Several assignee groups can be merged into a single group from the Manage Assignee Groups window. To display this window, click Manage Assignee Groups on the Patents: Innovation Trend Analysis page.

You can define up to 1000 groups. Each group can contain up to 2000 assignees.

1. In the Manage Assignee Groups window, locate the assignee groups that you want to merge in the list by doing any of the following:

   • Filter the list of assignee groups by performing a search.
   • Navigate multiple pages by clicking either a page number at the bottom of the window, or the Back and Forward arrows at the ends of the page-number sequence.
2. Select the check box at the left of the name of each assignee group that you want to merge.
3. Click Merge.
4. In the Merge Groups dialog box, type the name of the merged group—either a new name, or the name of one of the groups that you selected for the merge.
5. Click Save. When the merged group is saved, the list of assignee groups that you selected to merge are removed from the list.

Avoid using the following characters in the assignee group name: < > % (). A assignee group name cannot be longer than 35 characters.

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