FAQs - Patent Lens
What else does the Patent Lens contain?
What other features are coming?
Who is doing this work? What happened to the CAMBIA IP Resource?
How is this related to the BiOS Initiative and open source?
Are there any fee-based services?
How can links be provided to this website?
What does "Freedom to Operate" mean?
What is after-claiming? or, "How could that have been claimed in a patent? I thought it was in the public domain!"
What does it mean if a patent application is pending but not granted?
Patent Search Facilities
How does the search work?
The patent documents received from some of the jurisdictions must be rendered into searchable text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) at CAMBIA. All documents from the various jurisdictions are then marked up in XML so that they can be searched simultaneously and in a common format. The fast full-text search engine, Dekko, was designed in house at CAMBIA by Greg Quinn. It features options for ranking the search results by date, document number, and relevance (determined by weighted frequency and proximity of occurrence of search terms in each document).
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