Roy, no I found the searchable 'U' by accident when I entered it in the
patent number field in esp@cenet unconnected. It is then 'ored' with the
other search terms and you retrieve many hits.
I will visit the annual EPIDOS meeting starting on Wednesday and will ask
the EPO experts about this.
Ed Winckel
Shell International B.V.
> ----------
> From: Roy Zimmermann[SMTP:roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com]
> Sent: 16 October 2000 16:34
> To: piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk; Winckel, Ed EGA SI-IP/41
> Subject: RE: LATTICE SKIPPED PAGES FROM ESP@CENET
>
> Ed, thanks for the tip about retrieving German Utility Models. I have
> been able to retrieve most documents from the Esp@cenet Worldwide
> database without using kind codes, including German patents. Did you
> find documentation on Esp@cenet that lists when kind codes are necessary
> for direct document retrieval by document number and when the kind codes
> are unnecessary? This may account for the problems I've had retrieving
> JP documents there as well.
>
> Roy Zimmermann
> Patent Information Specialist
> 763-514-3304
> roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com
> rzimmerma@aol.com
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