Design patents protect the look and feel of an invention—so why use text to find them?
Enter Design Search, the world’s first image-based design patent search tool.
Conventional design patent search is inefficient at best, total chaos at worst: generic keywords, ambiguous search results, and the wrong search scope. Design Search incorporates AI-powered image recognition technology so you can search for design patents in their own language, increasing accuracy and speed.
All you need to get your design patent search started is an image.
1 Drag and drop
Pick an image from the patent’s drawings, product photos, or even prototype renderings, and drop it into Design Search.
2 Define the search scope
Refine your search queries with filters such as the Locarno classification, keywords, assignee, application date, issue date, and patent office. What used to be the standard,
is now optional.
3 Get results and dive deeper
Designs that are similar to the uploaded image (and within the search scope, if you defined it) are listed. Click on any item to start a brand new search without needing to upload
any new images.
What else?
Additional features that will help you shave off more time.
Six views of the patent drawings
Inspect all the standard views of a patent’s drawing.
Side-by-side comparison
Spot the differences between your image and similar designs.
Image inspection
Enlarge and rotate any image to check its features in detail.
Patent list export
Export up to 200,000 patents to an Excel file with customised data fields.
