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◇ Easier Access Tool to Japanese Patents for English Speakers
JP-NETe, a new patent search system, is designed for helping you retrieve essential Japanese unexamined patents. All of bibliographic and abstract data, drawings, legal status data and citation data could be made easily available dating back to 1989 in English language.



【Searching Menu】
Before using this search system, you need to download the application software for searching and then create your question. There are several search menus available: Keyword Search by Technical Terms, IPC Search, Applicant or Inventor Name Search, Application or Publication Number Search, Date Range Search and Legal Status Search including Citation Data.


【Displaying of Search Results】
Main four kinds of viewing search results are:
- English abstract with a main drawing,
- English abstract with citation data,
- Three English abstracts and three drawings.
- English abstracts with all drawings (if any),


【Printing Formats】
Various kinds of printing formats are available in;
- Hit List (Pub. No., IPC, Title, Applicant);
- English abstracts with a main drawing
- Three English abstracts per page;
As additional information, legal status information could be also printed.


【Usage Fee】
Completely flat rate for 5,000 Japanese yen
per month without any additional charge


<English abstracts with a main drawing>

<English abstract with citation Data>

<Three English abstracts with three drawings>

<English abstract with all drawings>




【Comprehensive Legal Status and Citation Data】
The Following information are made easily available as a legal status information;

- Examination process
Requesting date for examination,
Notification date for refusal,
Submission date of argument or
written amendment, etc.

- Trial/appeal process
Kind of trial/appeal,
Requesting date for trial/appeal, etc.

- Registration process
Decision date of patent grant,
Registration date of Certificate, etc.

- Cited and citation patents
Prior patents (backward) cited by the patent examiner, and
subsequent patents (forward) citing the patent

- Reference patents
Patents referred by the patent examiner, but not used for the “Notice of reasons for refusal”, etc.

- Divisional and converted patents
Patents divided from parent patent, and converted patents from patent to utility model and vice versa


【Cross-file Citation Search】
When finding some priority claimed or cited patents by patent examiners, you could easily to access to the original patents by clicking such patent number.
Further JP-NETe makes it possible to pinpoint the prior recited patent or the subsequent reciting patent just in the past or the future stage.


<Legal status information (file history data)>






All relevant documents for JP-NETe available from log-in page as follows;
1. JP-NETe User Agreement (English/Japanese)
2. How to install the program (Japanese)
3. How to install the program (English)
4. Price List (Japanese)
5. Price List (English)
6. Application Form (Japanese)
7. Application Form (English)
8. How to the Debug file (English/Japanese)
9. JP-NETe Search Manual (English)
10. JP-NETe Search Manual (Japanese)




* Free Trial Use
If you’d like to use as a free trial use this English Patent Search System, Please fill in the blanks and send it back the Free Trial Application Form to us as follows;
Free Trial Application Form (Japanese)
Free Trial Application Form (English)



Japan Patent Data Service Co., Ltd.
Sumitomo Fudosan Hibiya Bldg. 6F, 2-8-6, Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3580-8021, Fax: +81-3-6459-4588
E-mail address: international-dept@jpds.co.jp
URL: http://www.jpds.co.jp (Japanese)
URL: http://www.jpds.co.jp/english/index.html (English)






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