Dear users you, may also use a simple trick: 1. make a search that retrieves SI applicants: e.g. pn=SI and simply select the item SI that is listed high up in the filter "Applicants -country" for this query: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/beta/search?f=publications.in_country%3Ain%3Dsi&q=pn%3DSI 2....

Please also remove the "/" after "<".
The following query
"air gap" prox/distance < 7 "cooling"
will then work fine.

Following the release of the CPC International on 24/25 August 2019, version 1.2.1 of new Espacenet has been released to implement these changes. This means that the authorities that have assigned CPC classification symbols are now displayed next to each classification symbol. New Espacenet with CPC...

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Dear user, Thank you for your suggestion: We were not aware of this problem and will investigate it in more detail. Please be aware that the bulk data edition of PATSTAT might be a better choice in case you are repeatedly downloading such large sets of data (for which the tool was actually not desig...

Dear Froglet, Thank you for your question. This feature is actually available in the European Patent Register. Whereas Espacenet is currently not meant to search for legal or procedural related matters, the EPO developed Global Patent Index ( www.epo.org/gpi ), which is an advanced patent search too...

Dear user, In the data catalog we explain the artificial applications as follows (page 29 vers. 5.13 amend 1): “Artificial applications are added to PATSTAT to manage doubt about applications which have not been captured in the DOCDB database from which PATSTAT is built. There are several cases: - A...

New Espacenet will not be available between 18.00 hrs and 20.00 hrs CET on 22 July 2019.

If you have tried out the EPO's new Espacenet, currently available in a beta version, you will have noticed there is a function for filtering your search results. An article in patent information news takes a closer look at the filtering function, which helps you to identify those patent documents t...