Rules for "Family member by priority" feature

Andreas.Motl · March 5, 2019, 6:57am

Introduction

When enabled, the feature defines how the representative document gets selected by a number of rules. It currently prefers the display of family member prioritized by DE, EP…B, WO, EP…A2, EP…A3, EP and US, which is implemented at

github.com

ip-tools/ip-navigator/blob/0.163.0/patzilla/access/epo/ops/api.py#L94-L102


# DE, EP..B, WO, EP..A2, EP..A3, EP, US
priorities = [
    {'filter': lambda patent: patent.country.startswith('DE') and not patent.kind.startswith('D1')},
    {'filter': lambda patent: patent.country.startswith('EP') and patent.kind.startswith('B')},
    {'filter': 'WO'},
    {'filter': lambda patent: patent.country.startswith('EP') and patent.kind.startswith('A')},
    {'filter': 'EP'},
    {'filter': 'US'},
]

Andreas.Motl · March 5, 2019, 7:05am

Examples

Example 1

pn=EP3315805A1 or pn=US2018043415A1

WO2016208269A1
Published on: 2016-12-29
Original hit: US2018043415A1

Example 2

pn=EP2847290B1 or pn=DE102012207801A1

DE102012207801A1
Published on: 2013-11-14

Example 3

pn=BR112015026029A2 or pn=WO2014183844A1

EP2801557B1
Published on: 2015-09-16
Original hit: BR112015026029A2