To perform an Industrial design search via ProSearch, please select Industrial design search mode
After that, please follow the next steps:
1. Select Industrial designs databases to be searched.
For that, you can either start typing the source name in the respective string, and select one of the options there:
Or you can open the pop-up menu, select the Designs module on the top navigation bar to the right, tick the necessary databases there, and click on Apply button
Moreover, you can create a Custom Pack,, with your selections for your repeated use. For that, tick the required sources, enter a name and click the "Save Custom Pack" button. This custom pack will be then available at Custom Packs menu:
2. Upload an image file with your industrial design:
You can upload up to 7 images. Our recommendation is to only use the views that are visually distinctive (e.g. skip the very generic bottom view that looks like a plain circle or square). This is because the algorithm will evaluate each of the images on it's own, and adding generic images may overexpand the scope of the search.
There also is a cropping and rotation options within this file upload.
3. Select Locarno classes (optional): choose among three types of classifications: WIPO, Canada, or Japan national. To see more details on any of these, click the link to access the official source.
Tick the necessary classes and click “Add”. You can use the “Remove” or “Remove all” buttons to erase the unnecessary selections.
Please note that you can also use the search string at the top of this menu, to identify correct classes based on the entered keyword. Type in the relevant term and click the “Search” button to see if it’s represented in any available classification
If you selected multiple classes, choose the mode: “Match ANY class” or “Match ALL classes” and click “Update”
Description/Title (optional): Please enter a keyword to search for.
Note that thekeyword search only covers identical matches and does not apply translations (unless provided by PTO) or synonyms, so you might want to use a list of keywordsDesigner (optional): enter the designer name into this string to look up all the designs by them:
Additionally, you can use the pop-up menu with boolean operators for combining several sources:
Reference (optional) : enter your client name, reference number, or anything you want to show in the searches list:
Moreover, you can combine your search parameters with other strings such as Status, Dates, or Number, to achieve necessary results.
When ready with the search parameters, click on the Search button
As for the result layout, note that there are 3 main options to choose from:
- Table view (spreadhseet view)
- Grid view
- Grid view that displays the design parameters at the left-side of the screen and all the design images of the equal size to the right
To use this option, please make sure to select Grid view and tick the checkbox "Display each design at the same size (without thumbnails)"
