Advantages of Express Search research

Express Search is proud to offer text searchable patents including both pending and expired prior art with our Electronic Search Results.

• Find keywords in all cited prior art using Adobe Acrobat® search capabilities
• Search for keywords within a specific patent from your web browser
• Search ALL CITED ART (including English abstracts of foreign patents and older US patents)

Patent copies and shipping are now free of charge with our Electronic Search Results in the continental United States. There is no shipping charge for projects shipped within the continental US. There are no surprise disbursements with Express Search.

We supply the current INPADOC family and legal status (when available) for all patents we provide as prior art. This information includes a list of patents that share priority documents and the legal status of each of those documents.

The family of patents provides you and your client with a more complete picture of the prior art by listing the foreign patents that are based upon the cited priority document. Since a family member may be allowed in one foreign country but rejected in another, the family of patents can give crucial insight into what examiners in other countries consider patentable. Lastly, determining US equivalents for foreign patents can save on costly translations.

The current PAIR assignment document for each US patent is provided with all cited prior art, when available. The assignee on our abstracts page reflects the current PAIR document, not just the assignee at time of filing.