INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS

IN ORBIT.COM

2 Design Search Manual

Contents

Search 3

Databases 3

Quick search 3

Advanced search 4

Additional fields

Operators

Truncations

Display 6

Details Pane 6

List and details views 7

Thumbnails view 7

Full view 8

Save 9

Save a search 9

Execute, edit, and delete a saved search 10

Export 11

Alerts 12

Set up an alert 12

Execute, edit, and delete an alert 13

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Search

Databases 14 comprehensive registers:

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o

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WO

Asia: China, Korea, Japan

Europe: Benelux, EM, French, Germany, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United-

Kingdom

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Englis

Americas: Canada, United-States

h translation for Asian databases. Others languages coming.

Quick search Basic fields: Title, Locarno/national classification, owner, numbers (application,

registration, priority)

Automatic right and left truncations ANDed between terms (except for numbers ) and between fields

Basic Boolean operators

E x a m p l e :

Title = Fork spoon kni retrieves +fork+ AND +spoon+ AND +kni+

O t h e r e x a m p l e s :

Owner = Virgin Owner = Yves Saint Laurent

Locarno Class = 09-02 09-01 National Class = d29/110 d29/122

Priority or registration # = 123492 AND Owner = Sara lee

Priority or registration # = 936786 AND Owner = Armani

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At least one of the words

AND All words

NOT The first term without the second term

When combining different operators

Truncation replacing any number of characters

? Truncation replacing zero or one character

Truncation replaces exactly one character

Advanced search

Additional Fields

Description, new owner/previous owner/all, designer name, representative, priority country,

designated countries (FR and WO only), list of countries, date restrictions.

Note: Depending on the country, some fields are not searchable. Please refer to the following

document also available online: http://static.orbit.com/orbit/help/guides/DesignsFields.pdf

Operators

Design searching in orbit.com will support the following Boolean operators and truncations

symbols:

OR

Parentheses

Note: A space between two terms is equivalent to implied adjacency for Keywords.

Truncations

Truncation or wildcards are symbols that replace one or more characters, which lets you search

for different variations of a term.

+ or *

#

All truncation symbols are used at the beginning, end and embedded in the words. The

shortened term must be at least three characters for truncation to properly function.

Wildcards may be used in any area of the assistant general search. Left or beginning truncation

may not be used for Owner, Designer or Representative searching.

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E x a m p l e :

WATCH COMPETITORS IN A SPECIFIC INDUSTRY

Title = (bod+ AND (scan+ or X?ray?)) or (corp+ AND (imag+)) Owner = (hewlett AND packard) OR canon Select all countries.

O t h e r e x a m p l e s :

NEW PRODUCT SEARCHES

Title = (note? or bloc-note? or notiz? or tablet? or tafel? or stuck? or nota? or anotar? or bloc?)

AND (dispens? or distribiteur? or spender? or distribuidor? or holder? or halter? or

asgabebehalter? or detenteur? or porta?)

Locarno Class = 19-04+

Country = select all

WATCH FOR RECENT RELEASES IN YOUR INDUSTRY AND IN YOUR AREA

Locarno Class = +04-01+ OR +04-02+ OR +04-99+ OR +07-05+ OR +07-99+

Publication Date >= 20091015

Country = select GB and US and EU and WO

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Display

Details Pane

When selected (1), the Details Pane function displays the key content of the design next

to the list, details, or thumbnail views:

the title, registration number, register, owner, owner in original language (when

available), application date, publication date, Locarno Class, description, and all the

images.

By clicking on an image (2), a pop-up window displays a larger representation, when

available.

The details pane can be enlarged or reduced if you grab and move the limit (3).

The flag leads to the record on the office’s website (4).

(1)

(3)

(4)

(2)

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List and details views

Both views display the registration number, register, owner, title, application date,

publication date, and Locarno Class.

The details view shows the first image or all images. The choice can easily be changed

under Choose details.

Sorting is available for each column when the number of records is less than 1000.

Thumbnail view

Displays only the registration number and date with one or all images.

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Full view

Access by clicking on the registration number from the list, display, or thumbnail views.

Displays all fields with all the images.

By clicking on an image, a pop-up window displays the large size (when available).

Note: PDFs display for US designs.

The flag leads to the registration of the offices’ websites.

The keyboard down arrow directs to the following full view.

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Save

Save a search

From the result interface, you may save a search.

The script, or search strategy, is automatically inserted. You may modify the query, using

command language. Name your search, which must begin with a letter and contain

alphanumeric characters only, with no spaces and save it.

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Execute, edit or delete a saved search

From the left menu My saved searches, your may execute, edit or delete a saved search:

Execute reruns the saved strategy and takes into consideration any new records that

matches the strategy.

Edit displays the search strategy that you may modify.

Delete removes the saved search from your list.

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Export

The export button becomes available only when records are selected.

Several formats: TXT, PDF, RTF, XLS, and XML

My export profiles: save a personalized export format to reuse in the future. The list of

your saved formats is directly available from the Export drop down menu.

Zip, download, by email, (with a comment)

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Alerts

Set up an alert

You may create an alert from your search result page.

Choose to run your alert every week or month, with new documents only or all

documents.

The script is automatically included but may be changed for Questel command line

users.

Choose your format: classical (TXT, PDF, RTF), excel (XLS), XML (full or light)

Send to up to 23 emails, separated by a semicolon

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Execute, view, edit, and delete an alert

Execute reruns the saved strategy and takes into consideration any new records that

matches the strategy.

Edit displays the search strategy that you may modify.

Delete removes the saved search from your list.