Octimine provides 3 major types of filter options, to verify your search. You can find them when you click on Filter next to the search button.

Quantity Cut-Off Filter: Type the number of similar patents that should be displayed. The same number will be used to render the charts

Note: The advantage of cutting down the number of search results lies in the alignment of the interactive charts. E.g. patents ranked after 500 could be too different to show them in the analytics.

Similarity Cut-Off Filter: Type a similarity index. All similar patents that have a similarity index will be displayed. The charts will be rendered based on this index as well.

Note: Cutting-off, or setting a restriction to the similarity index (0-1000), where 0 stands for the lowest and 1000 for the highest level of similarity, gives the same advantage as cutting of the number of results (see above).

Inclusion (AND) Filter: Enter one or more keywords. This filter includes patents that have ALL entered keywords. Keywords have to be separated by commas. E.g. if you enter \’semiconductor, chip\’, all patents that contain the words semiconductor AND the word chip will be displayed. Please note that compound words will not be recognized yet. Numbers will be deleted. Since some words are too general, e.g. device, those will not work as keyword filters.

Inclusion (OR): Enter one or more keywords. This filter includes patents containing ANY of the keywords entered. Keywords have to be separated by commas. E.g. if you enter \’semiconductor, chip\’ all patents that contain the words semiconductor OR the word chip will be displayed. Please note that compound words will not be recognized yet. Numbers will be deleted.

Note: The OR in this filter separates the keywords you have entered, meaning that your search results will include patents where all entered keywords are present, but also the ones where only one, or more are present.

Exclusion (AND) Filter: Enter one or more keywords. This filter excludes patents containing ALL entered keywords. Keywords have to be separated by commas. E.g. if you enter \’semiconductor, chip\’ all patents that contain the words semiconductor AND the word chip will be displayed. Please note that compound words will not be recognized yet.

Note: Certain keywords in an entered text, for example in a product description, may cause a misallocation and therefore unpractical results. With this filter you can exclude a set of keywords from your search.

Exclusion (OR) Filter: Enter one or more keywords. This filter excludes patents containing ANY of the keywords entered. Keywords have to be separated by commas. E.g. if you enter \’semiconductor, chip\’ all patents that contain the words semiconductor OR the word chip will be displayed. Please note that compound words will not be recognized yet.

Applicant (+) Filter: Type one or more applicant names which are relevant for your search. Patents from other applicants are excluded. More precisely, if you enter Siemens into this field, only patents whose applicant name contains the word Siemens will be displayed.

Applicant (-) Filter: Type one or more applicant names which should be excluded in your search. Only patents from other applicants are included. More precisely, if you enter Siemens into this field, patents whose applicant name contains the word Siemens will be excluded from the results. Applicants’ names should be separated by commas (e.g. Siemens, General Electric, Samsung).

IPC (+) Filter: Type one or more IPC-Codes that are relevant for your search. Only similar patents with at least one of these IPC-Codes will be displayed. IPC-Codes may be separated by commas (e.g. G01J, G01K, G01L). IPC-Codes ranging from section level to subclass level can be entered in the field (e.g. G for a search of section G patents; G01 for a search of class G01 patents; G01L for a search of subclasses).

IPC (-) Filter: Type one or more IPC-Codes that you want to exclude from your search. Only patents without these IPC-Codes will be displayed. If more then one IPC-Code is typed in, separate them by commas (e.g. G01J, G01K, G01L). IPC-Codes ranging from section level to subclass level can be entered in the field (e.g. G for excluding section G patents; G01 for excluding class G01 patents; G01 for excluding subclasses G01L patents).

Earliest Priority Date: Type a priority date. All patents with priority date after this date will be displayed. To specify a range combine the \’ Earliest Priority Date \’ with the \’ Latest Priority Date \’ filter. Dates can be entered via calendar or manually according to the dd/mm/yyyy format (e.g. 20/05/2002).

Latest Priority Date: Type a priority date. All patents with priority date before this date will be displayed. To specify a range combine the \’ Earliest Priority Date \’ with the \’ Latest Priority Date \’ filter. Dates can be entered via calendar or manually according to the dd/mm/yyyy format (e.g. 20/05/2002).

Earliest Publication Date: Type a publication date. All patents after this date will be displayed. To specify a range combine the \’ Earliest Priority Date \’ with the \’ Latest Priority Date \’ filter. Dates can be entered via calendar or manually according to the dd/mm/yyyy format (e.g. 20/05/2002).

Latest Publication Date: Type a publication date. All patents published before this date will be displayed. To specify a range combine the \’ Earliest Priority Date \’ with the \’ Latest Priority Date \’ filter. Dates can be entered via calendar or manually according to the dd/mm/yyyy format (e.g. 20/05/2002).