Exploit the results of a patent search using the different views available.
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Dashboard view
This synthetic view allows you to visually represent the most important information of your research, so that you can better understand and interpret it.
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Relationship view
This view allows you to visualize the patent families as well as the links that unite them to other entities
To refine this view, please refer to the article: "The different filters of a patent search".
Note that in the patent search you will not be able to view "economic" entitiess such as technologies, products, groups, startups and associations.
Only the combination of a patent search and an Open Web search will allow you to display the "economic" actors.
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When you move your mouse over it, you can see what each relationship corresponds to.
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Document panel view
The document panel appears when you click on an entity in the "Relationship" view. You can also make it appear at any time in other Geotrend views by clicking on the arrow in the top right-hand corner 
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This panel enables you to view the documents linked to your filters, as well as to obtain more detailed information on an entity:
For a patent family:
You will find the following information, some of which is taken from the representative patent:
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- title
- legal status: "dead", "pending" or "granted. If you would like to know more about the legal status of patent families, please refer to "The different filters of a patent search".
- priority date
- publication date
- identifier
- representative patent identifier (from which patent family information is extracted)
- applicants" or "current assignees" for an Orbit import. Clicking on one of them filters the search on this entity.
- the patent classes in which the family is registered. Clicking on one of them filters the search on this class of patent.
- an abstract that gives you a general idea of the subject covered by the patent family.
- A list of the patent family's publications, i.e. all the files dealing with the same invention that have been gathered in the same patent family. These files may be applications, patents, additions, corrections, etc. You can obtain information on each of these publications:
- identifier
- priority date
- publication date
- country of filing
- legal status: "dead", "pending" or "granted
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For a patent class:
You will obtain the explanation by level of what corresponds to the class of patent on which you have clicked:
For a company or inventor;
You can view documents linked to these entities.
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Document view
The Documents view of the patent search is adapted to allow you to view key elements. Each card corresponds to a patent family.
The following elements will be found there:
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Map View
The Map view is based on the number of patent families. You can click on a country to see the patent families protected in that country in the document panel.
This view displays two main types of information:
- with a red icon, priority countries
- in shades of blue, the countries covered by a patent family
The country of priority is the country in which the first patent of a family was first filed, in other words, the country in which the invention was first filed.
This gives an indication of where the R&D centers of a company are located.
All patents of the same family have the same country of priority.Then, the invention can then be registered in several other countries for wider protection.
Examples:
Use case 1: I filter on a patent family whose invention was first filed in France, then the protection was extended to Germany and Spain: on my map, I have a red icon on France and I see in light blue France, Germany and Spain because the invention is protected in these 3 countries.
Use case 2: I filter on a company that has registered 3 inventions. The first two inventions were first filed in the USA, then registered in France and Mexico. The third invention was first filed in France, but protection has not been extended: on my map, I have a large red icon for the USA, which has been priority country twice, and a smaller red icon for France, which has only been priority country once. In light blue I see Mexico and the USA, where two inventions are protected, and in dark blue I see France, where three inventions are protected.
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Keywords view
The Keywords view presents all the words detected as important in patent family titles in the form of a word cloud.
