1. There must be at least three ( 3 ) characters in the search field (this does not concern search fields "Applicant/Owner" and "Patent Agent").
   
   NB : Patent Agent –field search must be combined with another search field at the same time.
   
   Click Search -> Result list –page will open.
   
   Search criteria will retrieve the corresponding data ( characters ) from the beginning of the following search fields :
   - Application Number
   - Publication / Patent number
   - PCT Application Number
   - IPC Class
   
   
   
   You can use "wildcard" * with following search fields :
   - Title
   - Applicant / Owner
   - Patent Agent
   
   
   
2. Click any row from result list to see application data in more details.
   
   
   NOTE : When you move from page to another, use application own links which are designed to this purpose. PLEASE DO NOT USE BACK OR FORWARD IN THE BROWSER

Writing search criteria
You can use as many fields as available.
You must write at least one search criteria in one search field.
Search criteria must contain at least three (3) first characters except Date fields (this does not concern search fields "Applicant/Owner" and "Patent agent").

Searching in "Title"-, "Applicant / Owner"- and "Patent Agent" -fields
With these fields you can use "wildcard" *. Search criteria must contain at least three (3) characters (other than wildcards) (this does not concern search fields "Applicant/Owner" and "Patent agent").

E.g. Searching Finnish word kone with wildcard *, can give you following search results :

Search criterian -> Result
kone     -> "oy kone ab", "kone oy"
kone*   -> "oy konekeskus", "konekeskus"
*kone   -> "tietokone oy", "oy tietokone"
*kone* -> "tietokone oy", "konekeskus", "tietokonekeskus oy"

Searching in IPC class field
IPC class search criterion format is e.g. C08J5/12 or a61h33/06 or A61K123/
You do not have to type spaces in any part of IPC class search criterion.

Searching in "Date of Advertisement in FI Official Gazette" -date field
If you write date in the first Advertisement date field only – you will get all applications having that exact Advertisement date given.
If you write another date in the second Advertisement field also – you will get all applications having Advertisement dates between given dates.

Searching in "EPO Date of Grant" -date field
If you write date in the first Grant date field only – you will get all Grants having that exact Grant date given.
If you write another date in the second Grant field also – you will get all Grants having Grant dates between given dates.

Result list
You can view Application number, Publication/Patent number, IPC-classes, Title and Applicant(s) / Owner(s) of all applications found in the result list. You can see the number of applications found at the top of the result list page.

You can view data of 25 applications at one time starting with the latest application date as first in the results.
At the bottom of the result list you can browse :
list of first 25 of all applications found
list of previous 25 applications found
list of next 25 applications found
list of last 25 of all applications found

Click any row from result list to see application data in more details.

Click Print to view all applications found in the search in new window where you can print / save all at the same time.