AppColl integrates with EspaceNet to add or update prior art references for published and issued patents for both U.S. and foreign countries. Use the steps below to load available references.
Please Note: Patent Center does not provide an easy-to-access list of references for pending U.S. patent applications. Most of the references are only listed in IDSes filed by the applicant, 892 and 1449s. As such, EspaceNet may not always return the complete list of references for published applications. You're encouraged to verify the integrity of the reference list.
- Go to the Prior Art module.
- Select the Matter for which you wish to load references.
- Notice there are currently no references displayed. Click the Load Available Refs button. Note that this may take some time depending on the number of references being retrieved. If a reference already exists, it will not be duplicated.
Once complete, the following popup appears.
- Notice that for this example, 10 references are now loaded. Please Note: EspaceNet does not provide values for the CiteDate or CitedBy columns.
- Go back to the Prior Art module.
- Review the RefCount and CiteCount columns for the new references.
