How to effectively query foreign patents

Patents protect their exclusivity by law in exchange for patent disclosure, so all patents that pass the examination should be made public, in other words, they can be downloaded from patent websites.

Related patents can be found on the websites of the European Patent Office (www.european-patent-office.org) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov). Ep.espacenet.com can find European patents, American patents and world patents filed in Europe.

Patents are generally a collection of practical methods, high-quality patent specifications and documents with economic value. However, we should not be superstitious about patents. Due to the need of technical competition, the quality of patents in some countries is quite poor, and many specifications are false. Especially in China, patents are generally regarded as a tool of deception, and packaging products have the means of "scientific and technological content" and the way to make a job with the government. So according to my current experience, 95% of the patents in China are fake or have no scientific and technological content. China's patent is as unreliable as the reaction yield reported in articles published in China journals. Because China does not stipulate that patents should have high-tech content, many patents in China are not original and new, and many are "synthetic" patents. Because the elasticity of the formula may be great, the patent of these low-grade ingredients is of little significance. However, the return is not big. After all, it is a little "shadow" and has certain hints. China's patents can be downloaded directly from China National Intellectual Property Administration. Unfortunately, the junk patent workers supported by backward China actually store the patent specification on a single page, and every time they download the specification of a 10 page, they need to click the mouse 100 times or more, and the complexity can be imagined. The reason for doing this is definitely not a technical problem, but the interests of some people? Because there used to be a website selling patent technical documents in China, which provided patent inquiry service under the guise of "national" service department. I also strongly appeal to some people in China's Intellectual Property Office who hinder scientific and technological progress not to be "self-styled", but to release all patents as soon as possible and make each patent specification into a file package. Like the United States, patent documents are downloaded as pdf files for free. Who else can use it to seek illegitimate interests?

American patent. The quality of American patents is as high as that of American scientific literature. For those who engage in synthesis, the patents applied by Americans can basically be repeated. However, many foreigners apply for American patents. If Japanese people apply for American patents, their credibility will be greatly reduced, because Japanese patents are not as low as those in China, and the disclosure of patents may be insufficient or the correct methods may be concealed and distorted. In recent years, the authenticity of American patents may also have a downward trend. But on the whole, I repeated many American patents before 1980, and they can be repeated accurately. U.S. patent inquiries can be registered directly on the U.S. national government website or in www.freepatentsonline.com, which is very useful.

European patent. /advancedSearch? Locale=en_epES is a famous patent in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Britain and other countries. The level of scientific and technological development in Europe is very high, so the patent quality is also very high and original. But the biggest obstacle for us is French, Spanish, German and other language barriers. However, with the development of the Internet, online dictionaries can easily solve language barriers. On the one hand, Latin languages are similar to some extent, especially many professional words are the same or similar to English words. With professional "feeling", we can roughly know the main contents of these foreign patents. You can go to a professional dictionary website to translate words you can't understand. The European Patent Website is provided by the European Patent Office and can be used to search for patents in Europe and European countries.

Benefits include European patents (EP), British patents, German patents (DE), French patents (FR), Australian patents, Belgian patents (BE), Italian patents, Finland, Denmark, Spain (ES), Sweden, Switzerland, etc. 15 European national patents. Famous translation websites are:

1.WindowsLiveTranslator website: /Default.aspx This is super fast. In addition to supporting online translation of words within 500 words, it also provides web page translation, supporting nearly ten languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Italian, French and Spanish.

2. The speed of this website is good, and you don't need to input special characters. Unique characters in Spanish are directly replaced by equivalent English letters, such as × = a; é= e; í= I; ó= o; ú= u; ? = n; These all passed the author's experiments, but these two don't know what they mean. Untested), so there should be no problem with French and German characters.

3./index.cfm The patent of Spanish translation into English and French can be found in European patents. The European patent website provides automatic translation function, which can basically translate French into English and is very convenient to use. Enter FR27600 15, find the patent, and then click the description, and the translatethistext will appear, which can be automatically translated into English.

Advanced European Patent Search Portal: /advancedSearch? Locale=en_epES You can find the full-text patents of many European countries at this entrance. Looking up patents in the advanced interface is mainly about whether you want to use the application number or the application number.