RE: Patent Family Searches!

Ebe, Tommy (tebe@cas.org)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:29:24 -0500

In response to a posting about searching for patent families,
Thierry Depireux wrote today:

>> This is not equivalent to the STN Messenger command FSEARCH
>> which uses only the priority number(s) (my opinion).

The FSEARCH command on STN performs recursive select/search
steps using the patent numbers, application numbers, and
priority application numbers from the previous results.

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