The search function

You can search Swissreg for IP rights and publications. Use search operators if you want to find similar results too.

 

Two search masks are available in the database: 
 

  • The IP rights search allows you to search for active Swiss patents and European patents effective in Switzerland and Liechtenstein as well as for published national patent applications.
  • The publication search allows you to search for published register changes for granted national patents. 


You can save searches and monitor new publications. Please refer to the ‘Search results’ page.

 

How the search works

When you search for one or more search terms, the following fields are searched for matches:
 
When searching for IP rights

  1. Title
  2. Patent number
  3. Application number
  4. Owner
  5. Representative
  6. Inventor
  7. International Patent Classification (IPC)
  8. Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC)
  9. PCT application number (international application)
  10. PCT publication number (international publication)

When searching for publications

  1. Title
  2. IP right number (patent number)
  3. International Patent Classification (IPC)
  4. Publication details
  5. Published remark
  6. Owner
  7. Representative

 

The search only produces results if the term or character string is found exactly as written. For example, if you search for photo, it will only find results for the word photo and not photos, photograph or photographer. If you want to find other spellings or similar terms, please use the advanced search options.
 
If you use several search terms, the search results will contain at least one of these terms (default operator OR).

 

Upper/lower case

The search engine does not differentiate between upper and lower case letters.

 

Terms containing umlauts and other accents

Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and other accents (e.g. à, ô, ç) are not taken into account by the search engine. This is also true if you use double quotation marks to search for exact word sequences. It therefore does not matter if you type umlauts or accents – a search for schön or schon will produce the same results. You cannot, however, use ae, oe or ue in place of ä, ö or ü.

 

Terms containing special characters

The search engine does not recognise special characters. This includes the characters +  -   /  & !  (  ). Full stops and commas are recognised.
 
Because special characters function like spaces, the character sequences before and after a special character (e.g. PC-Doctor) are treated like separate terms (search for PC and Doctor). Therefore, please place search terms with special characters in double quotation marks –
"pc-doctor".

 
 

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