An Introduction to PatBase Express

PatBasics Express - Tools

Tools in PatBase Express





  • Corporate tree can be accessed under More options. It provides a quick way to identify subsidiaries and other affiliations of a chosen corporation, so that related companies can be included in one assignee search. Enter your chosen assignee name and click Search to display the corporate tree for that parent company. All or some affiliated assignee names can then be selected to search in PatBase Express
  • PatBase Thesaurus can be accessed under More options. Select the tab of interest from: General, Genes & Proteins, Chemical and Language, enter your term and click Search. A list of synonyms or related terms will be generated, simply tick the boxes of the relevant terms and then click Search in PatBase in the top right-hand corner, you can edit the search query before searching in PatBase Express
  • The legal status viewer can be accessed in the top right-hand corner when viewing a record. Switch between timeline and table view, view the reassignment history and check if there is any ongoing litigation. There are export options available in the top right-hand corner of the pop-out window; choose to export as an Excel, PDF or Word file – alternatively you can publish an offline link to share with colleagues. For more information about the legal status viewer, please refer to the help guide available under Document Links
  • View citation information and the full text of relevant citations using the citation viewer (accessible from the family bar when viewing a record)
  • View the Classification hierarchy within PatBase Express or directly from the issuing authority website by clicking on a classification code when viewing a record

Frequently Asked Questions

My Theasurus chemical search isn’t returning any hits, what can I do?
The PatBase Thesaurus draws its terms from a number of external sources as well as PatBase data, hence if you are taking terms from the Thesaurus back into PatBase some formatting may be required.
For example a Thesarus search on “482-54-2”, a CAS number for a metal chelating agent, returns among other terms:
(1,2-Cyclohexylenedinitrilo)tetraacetic acid 

This term cannot be searched directly as written, for a number of reasons:
The brackets that make up part of the name will have to be removed, as these will be interpreted by the system as part of the query’s logic structure. Replace them with spaces first:
1,2-Cyclohexylenedinitrilo tetraacetic acid

Next remove any remaining punctuation (comma’s, hyphens etc), and place quotes around the numbers (this stops the numbers being interpreted as recalling previous search lines, and instead searches them as text)
“1” “2” Cyclohexylenedinitrilo tetraacetic acid

You can now search the above as a phrase by simply pasting into the command line, and the system will search for the above words in that order.
How do I share legal status information with a colleague via the legal status viewer?
In this example we will be sharing the legal status timeline for a family, however, the process will work the same with the Table, Reassignment and Priority Map as well.

Open the legal status view for the family of interest and navigate to the screen you wish to share.



Next, click the additional options symbol as shown in the screenshot below to access a dropdown list of the various formats in which you can share/export the date in the current view.



The file formats available will change depending on the data being viewed: for example the excel file format is available as an option when viewing the legal status table information but not when viewing the timeline.

There is also an option from each section to generate a link which you can host yourself, send directly to a colleague, or an email option which will open a new email message and automatically populate it with a link and a short message, as shown below.