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Inventor
The inventor is the person named in a patent application as the inventor. There may be more than one inventor. The inventor can also be the applicant.
The inventor format is made up of the surname followed by the first name(s) of the inventor(s) (eg Smith John).
You can search for one or more words (up to a maximum of four). If you enter more than one word, only those documents will be retrieved in which all the words appear (eg Smith John). You do not need to type AND as it is the default operator.
You can also search for a phrase using quotation marks (eg "Smith Robert John"). This will retrieve only those documents containing the exact phrase.
Apostrophes, slashes and hyphens cannot be used in search fields. Please use blanks (spaces) instead.
Inventor and applicant
names are not completely standardised.
In order to retrieve all variants, you should also use truncation and alternative spellings.
Note: In the case of documents published in other alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek), the name of the inventor is not searchable. You can, however, search using the existing classification systems.
For more information on patent searching, see the following pages:
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