Using "The query you built" to resubmit assignee criteria

Regardless of how you enter assignee criteria, your entire query appears on a single line below the query area (The query you built). You can edit and resubmit a query directly.

You can identify the assignee part of the query to have the following syntax:

<with> (assignee1 <or> assignee2 <or> ... <and> assigneen) <in> PA

Here, <with> indicates the beginning of a document constraint. <in> PA specifies that this constraint is focused on the Assignee patent field, which is indicated by the patent field code PA.

Example 1

The following Patent Collections query might appear in the results window:

camshaft operation <in> FTXT <with> (Honda <or> Mazda) <in> PA

This query selects those sentences that contain the concept camshaft operation in fulltext patent fields. Patent documents are restricted to those assignee names that include the words Honda or Mazda.

Example 2

Consider the following query:

camshaft operation <in> FTXT <with> (Honda <group>; Mitsubishi <group>; Nissan) <in> PA

Here, both Honda and Mitsubishi are indicated as groups, where each has been defined to represent several assignee names. The assignees are separated by a semicolon, which is equivalent to the Boolean operator <OR>.

When editing an assignee name, keep in mind that it can include several words, in which case an <AND> Boolean operator is assumed between them.

When editing assignee group names, note that the exact spelling of the entire name is matched.

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