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)
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