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hello everyone in this video we'll look at patent assignee searching that is when you go into one or more of the patent databases on dialog to identify all of the patents or published patent applications owned by a company or person usually you're searching on a company name there are at least two ways to do this on dialog and I'll demonstrate both of them for you and at the end since we'll be using the Impa doc database I'll offer some tips on your download options for patent families found in Impa doc so let's get started now in this example we've been doing some searching in the 31 full-text patent databases looking for patents about personal protection equipment or PPE things like breathing masks and we found this interesting patent it's from Australia was issued in 2015 this mask has a pleated surface for a better fit on a person's face so that's interesting and it was made by a company called mold X metric so if we want to find out what else this company has patented there are a few things we can do we can simply click on it notice by the way there are other things that are underlined and in blue here we can click on any of these things like this international classification code or this application number anything we see highlighted like that and dialogue will automatically run a search for that value in the case of the patent assignees therefore we can simply just click here and we will get a search across all of these 31 databases and we get 154 hits for mold x metric ink now we might get a few more hits if we went instead into Impa doc because it has broader country coverage but the more important limitation here that i want to point out is that by clicking on the assignee name dialog has run this as an exact search you see the field is PA exact and that the company name is in quotes so we're getting a hundred fifty four results but those are only the ones where the and assignee name is in the record as exactly mold X metric Inc if there's any variation on that then this search will not bring it up so this is a good search it's certainly fast and easy but I'd like to show you the better and more complete way to find all of the patents by mold X metric and this time the first thing I want to do differently is to go instead into the info doc database because as I mentioned Impa doc has the broadest country coverage which makes it a good choice for a patent assignee search I'll go into MP doc and I'm going to go into advanced search I go to this first row and I changed this drop-down box from the default to patent assignee pa when I do that I get a link that appears here says lookup patent assignees and when I click on it this opens a special tool for this purpose called lookup patent assignees now in this box I'm going to leave this button at contains and I'm going to type mold X a - isn't important I'll just put mold X metric in fact I'm just gonna put the first part of it sometimes that's a good precaution in case the rest of the word is misspelled in the patent and we see here a number of variations on that company name there is mold X metric but we also see mold X metric AG & Co kg which has a significant number of patents down here we see mold X metrics with an X is that the same company that's been misspelled well it's hard to be sure but I'm going to go ahead and include that as well this is something that we would have missed because of the misspelling in the record itself if we had not used this lookup tool so the next thing I do is to click Add to search down here and you see dialog has filled in all of our selections in this box and this is a good search for everything where mold x metric with all of its variant names was the original patent assignee but that is part of the search because sometimes the patent may have been assigned initially to someone else perhaps another company that sold it to mold X metric but often the patent first comes out in the name of the inventors so that the company name is the re a sign e which is the pair field PA re but they're not the PA so what we want to do is in this second row is set this wrap down to pair patent assignee or reassigned this again brings up a new link that says lookup new assignees and we get a similar tool that says lookup new a Sinese so again in here I will type mold X metric I'll just put net click find and we see a couple of additional ones here notice that part of the address or location turns up that's quite often the case in the new assignee search so I'll select those and now they appear down here the next thing we want to do and this is very important is to change this connector from and to or because what we want is a combination of all of the patents owned initially by this company or that were reassigned to them afterward and now we're ready to click search and we have our total number of hits which now is 221 significantly more than 154 that we got just by clicking on the name and getting the records where the exact name was bull decks metric Inc now since we're in Impa doc I want to show you one more thing here we have 221 results because that's how many individual patents are assigned to this company but if we want to we can instead reduce the number of hits to only one hit per family we do that over here you see we're now looking at the results from show all results that would be a separate record for each family member each publication but if we want to we can reduce this to only one record for each patent family we can choose either the earliest or basic patent of the family or we might want to see the most recent one I'm going to pick earliest and then update and now we have significantly fewer we have only 95 results note that if we wanted to know all of the patent numbers we would have to download these results in a format that includes the patent family so when doing download all results we might choose this and be sure to check off include family information or instead we could choose as our format something like the family table or family member details and that too would get us all of the patent numbers across only 95 records instead of over 200 but either way we choose to do it we have gotten all 221 patent numbers available to us by doing the patent assignee search using the lookup tools so that's it we've seen how you can click on an assignee name in any patent record to get one-click results on all patents assigned to that exact name and we saw how you can look for additional records where a company's name might appear in variant forms or where the company is a reassign e to the patent by using the lookup patent assignee and lookup new assignee tools in advanced search if you'd like more information here are some links to additional resources or if you have questions or you need help feel free to call the help desk at these numbers or you can email us at customer at dialogue com thanks for using dialog and enjoy the rest of your day