Searching in databases - Japan

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Tips & tricks for searching in databases 

Easy, step-by-step instructions on how to use Japanese search interfaces without knowledge of Japanese. Click on the links below to download the respective search guides.

Number search and document retrieval

• Input of numbers on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 853 KB]
  
• Searching PAJ English abstracts on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 257 KB]
  
• Displaying and downloading full Japanese documents on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 510 KB]

English machine translation

• Retrieving Japanese documents and machine translations from the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 655 KB] 

Legal status information

• Retrieving basic legal status information in Japanese from the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 292 KB]
  
• Retrieving detailed legal status information in Japanese from the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 320 KB]
  
• Electronic file inspection on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 239 KB]
  
• Finding cited documents on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 347 KB]
  
• Finding information on divisional applications on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 255 KB]
  
• Finding Japanese patent term extensions on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 782 KB] 

FI/F-Terms

• Finding FI classes and F-terms for a Japanese document [PDF, 239 KB] 

Searching designs

• Searching Japanese designs by classification on the JPO's IPDL [PDF, 442 KB]