Keywords

The Keywords text box allows you to search text in the following nine fields:

The Object of the Invention, Advantages of the Invention Over Previous Art, and Independent Claims make up the three parts of Questel Key Content. The Key Content is extracted using linguistic technology from the fulltext of the following official English language publications: EP published applications starting in 1988 (Euro-PCTs excluded), PCT published applications from mid-2001 to date, US granted patents from 1971 to 2000, US published applications from mid-March 2001 to date, GB applications starting in 1979, and FR applications, CN utility models and CN applications. Some older documents are available, back to 1980 for EP and 2000 for WO. PCTs (outside of Korean publications) machine-translated into English are also used to extract the key content.

Concepts are the key concepts of a patent, extracted with language technologies from the Fulltext of the publication. They reflect the semantic content of the publication. The coverage is the same as for the Key Content. PCTs (outside of Korean publications) machine-translated into English are also used to extract the key content.

Searching the Title and Abstract searches across all family members.

Searching in the Abstract field automatically searches the English descriptors of French patents (/IW) field (French publications from 1987 to 2009). These publications are retranslated now, and this field is depreciated.

Searching the Object of the Invention, Advantages of the Invention Over Previous
Art, Independent Claims, and Concepts searches only English-language documents from the GB, US, EP, and WO in official or machine-translated English.

Searching Concepts also searches the Title and Abstract fields. Concepts are only in English.

Searching the Claims and Description applies only to documents with the Fulltext
available. Fulltext coverage and updating schedules are found here. This includes all the claims in all available languages.

Searching Fulltext searches the Title, Abstract, Claims and Description fields and will be conducted across all family members, except as noted above.

If no option is selected, the search will be conducted on the Title, Abstract, English descriptors of French patents. Object of the Invention, Advantages of the Invention Over Previous Art, and Independent Claims. Fields behind this option are /BI/SA (basic index and super index).

The Keywords text box allows you to search text in the followings five areas:

Clicking in the Keyword text box automatically expands the box to allow you to enter a long query. Also, when you enter the first character, an additional text box opens (equivalent to clicking the plus sign to the left of the dropdown menu). You can add up to five additional text boxes. This feature allows you to search multiple terms in different fields. To close additional input lines, click the minus (-) sign to the left of the field selection dropdown menu.

You can enter the terms in uppercase or lowercase; the search engine is not case sensitive. Accented characters are not considered.

The terms you enter in the first input line will appear in your results highlighted in yellow. Each text box is associated with a new highlight color, magenta for the 2nd box, blue for the 3rd box, green for the 4th box, red for the 5th box and grey for the 6th box. You can change these default colors or cancel the highlighting by clicking the color square to the right of each box.

If the highlighting of a search has been saved, the colors will not be available for ensuing searches. Help page shows how to use the saved highlighting profiles.

After entering your search criteria, using terms with any necessary truncation and operators, click the Search button.

To the right of the input box, the

button accesses the Keyword Search Wizard.

This tool processes a single term (or an operator-free expression separating the terms) at a time and operators are not supported.

With this assistant you have access to Linked Relevant Concepts and the Multilingual Dictionary.

The Linked Relevant Concepts displays statistically linked relevant concepts. The concept tree recognizes your keyword or key expression (with or without truncation but without operators) in all languages and shows you all the concepts related to your keyword or key expression. The concepts are in English, but you can enter searched terms in other languages. Each main concept is associated with a tree structure that allows you to choose concepts related to your main concept, and so on.

If you wish to see listings for a new term, enter the term in the wizard’s input field and click on the Update button.

The OK button will put them in the search page’s keyword input field, and the Cancel button will close the wizard without making any.
The various synonyms are linked by the OR operator and terms will be searched in the Concepts field. You can change the text search field and/or the operator(s) and/or add truncation.

The Multilingual Dictionary uses the linguistic technology of our partner Lingway and displays a list of English, French, and German translations and synonyms for each term entered, in the different areas of specialization that may concern the word. Feminine and plural variations of the word are not displayed but are automatically taken into consideration by using truncations.

The keyword being searched is displayed at the top of the popup along with the language used (English, French, or German). Do not use truncation on your original term as this will prevent the dictionary from being able to find variants.

The first time you use the Multilingual Search Wizard, the default language will be the language of the version of Orbit you signed into. You can change the language by entering your keyword in another language and then selecting the appropriate language from the dropdown menu in the Multilingual Dictionary popup. The last language used will be the default for the next time.

In the proposed list, a selection of terms is checked by the system based on a rate of relevance calculated using algorithms analyzing the relatedness and the level of precision of the term. This selection is not mandatory, and you can of course modify it to broaden or narrow the search. Once you have made your selections, clicking on the Ok button will put the terms (including feminine and plural versions) in the keyword input field on the search page. Synonyms are connected by the operator OR, diverse groups of synonyms by the operator AND.

Included is the option I would like to contribute to the improvement of your dictionaries. Suggestions for synonyms or additional translations are sent to our development team.

Orbit uses implied adjacency (the W operator) between search terms separated by a space by default.

If middle or internal word(s) are 1 character, they will be suppressed and replaced by the nW proximity operator (n equalling the number of words suppressed).

Hyphens separating two terms are deleted for searching and replaced by the implicit adjacency (see the joint operator ). Generally, non-alphanumerical characters (hyphens, parentheses, commas, etc.) are not considered characters and are treated as spaces.

The use of quote marks should be reserved for putting around digits ("5") and words that could be interpreted as operators ("AND").

Greek characters should be spelled out in searches: beta, alpha, etc. For example, β could be searched by (“B” OR BETA)

Here is a detailed example: Searching 2-amino-3-hydroxipyridine

The first step is to list synonyms for the substance being searched:
3-Pyridinol, 2-amino
2-Amino-3-hydroxypyridine

2-Amino-3-hydroxylpyridine
2-Amino-3-pyridinol

2-Amino-3-pyridol

Amino-3-hydroxypyridine
3-Hydroxy-2-aminopyridine
3-Hydroxy-2-pyridinamine
2-Amino pyridin-3-ol

NSC 136806
CAS number : 16867-03-1

The second step is to rewrite each synonym in Questel language:
3-Pyridinol, 2-amino : "3" W pyridinol W "2" W amino?

2-Amino-3-hydroxypyridine/ 2-Amino-3-hydroxylpyridine : "2" W amino W "3" W hydroxy?_pyridin?
2-Amino-3-pyridinol/2-Amino-3-pyridol : "2" W amino W "3" W pyrid??ol
Amino-3-hydroxypyridine : amino W“3” W hydroxy?_pyridin ?

3-Hydroxy-2-aminopyridine : “3” W hydroxy W “2” W amino_pyridin ?
3-Hydroxy-2-pyridinamine : "3" W hydroxy W"2" W pyridin_amin?
2-Aminopyridin-3-ol : "2" W amino_pyridin? W "3" W ol

NSC 136806 : NSC W 136806
CAS number : 16867 W "03" W "1"

Single digits must be enclosed in double quotes to avoid any confusion with search query set numbers. If there are single letters that might be read by the system as operators such as AND, OR, NOTenclose those in quotes as well.

The third step is to run the various queries and combine the results via your session search history :
("3" W pyridinol W "2" W amino?)/BI/TX: 3 results

("2" W amino W "3" W hydroxy?_pyridin?)/BI/TX : 2783 results
("2" W amino W "3" W pyrid??ol)/BI/TX: 47 r results

(amino W "3" W hydroxy?_pyridin?)/BI/TX : 2810 results

("3" W hydroxy W "2" W amino_pyridin?)/BI/TX : 17 results
("3" W hydroxy W "2" W pyridin_amin?)/BI/TX: 2 results

("2" W amino_pyridin? W "3" W ol )/BI/TX: 183 results
(NSC W 136806?)/BI/TX : 0 results
(16867 W "03" W "1")/BI/TX : 3
1 :9 : 2980 results

To have a comprehensive search, you can if necessary adjust the proximity allowed by the W operator (1W, 2W, etc.) as well as selecting different the fields to search. You can also use limited truncation (?) to be more flexible on the names of the formula, and using the joint operator_ .

Using the KWIC tab when viewing the results of your search is recommended for this type of search. You can then rapidly determine if the compounds found conform to the one you are looking for.