Tips & tricks for searching in Chinese patent databases

The European Patent Office published valuable instructions how you can work with Chinese database for patents, without any knowledge of Chinese. The instructions cover:

• SIPO – Retrieving Chinese documents (PDF, 833 KB)
• PSS – Retrieving Chinese documents (English interface) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• SIPO – Monitoring Chinese publications by IPC classes (PDF, 897 KB)
• English machine translation
• PSS – Retrieving a machine translation (English interface) (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Legal status information
• SIPO – Legal status search in Chinese (PDF, 982 KB)
• SIPO – Retrieving information on fee payment in English (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• SIPO – Online file inspection in English (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• SIPO – Searching re-examination and invalidation decisions (PDF, 450 KB)
• SIPO – Retrieving online gazette issues (PDF, 656 KB)
• PSS – Retrieving citation information (English interface) (PDF, 1.17 MB)
• Searching trademarks and designs
• CTMO – Searching Chinese trademarks (PDF, 751 KB)
• SIPO – Searching Chinese designs using classification (PDF, 967 KB)