I use the site primarily to get information about applications or patents for which I already know the number. For this, the new Espacenet is not improved; it's been wrecked. Too many panes cramming too much information into too little space. I can't use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through ...

The new Espacenet results format is abominable, unhelpful, non-user-friendly (indeed, user-hostile), non-intuitive and flatly difficult to work with. I can't imagine why anyone thought that this format would be an improvement over the previous format. Searches are difficult, results are cramped and ...