Online tutorial and Help

Online tutorial

Learn how to use Espacenet with our interactive e-learning modules.

Espacenet assistant

Index

Espacenet offers users a number of different types of help.

There is a 'quick help' function on every search screen and results screen, in the form of frequently asked questions.

For more in-depth information a general help is also provided. It contains definitions of terms.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please write to espacenet@epo.org.

Glossary of words and terms included in the general help:

• Abstract
• "Also published as" documents
• Applicant
• Application number
• Basic search tips
• Bibliographic data
• Boolean operators
• Cited documents
• Citing documents
• Claims
• Classification popup
• Classification searches
• Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
• Country codes
• Corresponding documents
• Country codes
• Coverage of worldwide database
• Date formats and ranges
• Default operators
• Description
• Downloading covers
• Downloading documents
• EP database
• European Classification System (ECLA)
• European Patent Register
• Exporting lists
• FAQs
• Filing date
• Full-text search
• Highlighting
• INPADOC legal status
• Inventor
• International Patent Classification (IPC)
• Kind codes
• Limitations
• Mosaics
• My patents list
• Non-patent literature (NPL)
• NPL reference numbers (XP)
• Number searches
• Original documents
• Patent families
• PATLIB
• PCT minimum documentation
• Priority date
• Print
• Priority number
• Publication date
• Publication number
• Query history
• Result list
• RSS
• Settings
• Smart search
• Smart search - entering queries
• Smart search - field identifiers
• Smart search - limitations
• Smart search - operators
• Sorting the lists
• Title
• Translation
• Truncation
• Updates
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• WIPO database