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Title
The title may be a translation into English of the title of a published document not originally in English. The title is simply a short text (often one sentence) describing the contents of the application.
In February 2005, esp@cenet® held data on 50 million patents from 71 countries. 25.6 million of these patents have a title.
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In the title field, you can search in English for one (eg bicycle) or more words (up to a maximum of four).
If you enter more than one word (eg frame bicycle), only those documents will be retrieved in which all the words appear.
You can also search for a phrase using quotation marks (eg "bicycle frame"). This will retrieve only those documents in which the exact phrase is present.
Apostrophes, slashes and hyphens cannot be used in search fields. Please use blanks (spaces) instead.
It is important to bear in mind that titles are not always explicit. We therefore recommend that you enter your search terms in the abstract field.
Not all documents have a title. Titles will only be displayed if they are available in Latin characters.
Note: In the case of some documents neither the title nor the abstract have been translated into English by the EPO. For these documents, searches can be conducted using classification symbols .
For more information on patent searching, see the following pages:
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