Blazing Dawn Software's Family-izerTM

INPADOC patent families for multiple patents!

This is Blazing Dawn Software's Family-izer patent family retrieval tool. Great for one patent or hundreds!

Should work in any device that has a browser: desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone!

If your list of patents happens to contain many members of a single family, Family-izer provides the full list of family members only once, and then identifies all subsequent patents in that family as being a member. That makes it easy to review a company's patent portfolio by highlighting only the unique patent families that the portfolio contains.

For the original Family-izer that required a browser plug-in click here.

To get more details for a single patent (such as full country names, publication dates and Kind Code explanations), try Family-izerTM Solo.

Please send any comments or suggestions to Blazing Dawn Software (contact e-mail address is on the Blazing Dawn Home page).
Type, drag or paste a list of patents preceded by Country Code (without a space) into the field below. For U.S. patents and published applications you can omit the country code. U.S. and Canadian patent numbers can be entered with or without commas (5000000 or 5,000,000; CA2,123,456 or CA2123456). Published application numbers can be entered with or without slashes (US: 20020000001 or 2002/0000001 or US2002/0000001; PCT: WO2004/012345 or WO2004012345), but no letters are permitted other than the country code or the "RE" of U.S. reissue patents. EPO patents and published applications must have seven digits, so add lead zeros for older documents.

Once you have entered your list, click the Family-ize button. The list of patents and/or published applications is first sorted, so the results will be in lowest to highest numbers regardless of their order in the field (patent numbers starting with a letter, e.g., reissue patents, will be retrieved first). As the program progresses, if a patent or published application is already listed in a preceding family, its family will not be repeated. Instead, you will see a result that says that the it is in the same family as _______. The final results will be displayed in a new browser window.

Statistical Information: There is statistical information in the two right-most columns. The first column shows the total number of family members. The second column shows the number of unique countries and/or regions that are in the family.

Please be patient since there is no progress indicator. The larger your list of patents, the longer the process will take.


           
                      

Hint: If you highlight and copy the resulting table, you can paste it into a word processing document or spreadsheet.


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