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Former USPTO patent examiner here. Here's the USPTO's new public search tool: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/landing.html?MURL=SearchPatentFullT

Former USPTO patent examiner here. Here's the USPTO's new public search tool: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/landing.html?MURL=SearchPatentFullText https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/landing.html?... I tried the following search: (lindsay NEAR2 ste$5).inv. This just looks for likely variations of the inventor's name in the inventor field. Selecting only the US-PGPUB database (published patent applications), I came across the following that seem to match: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230008280A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230008280A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230009028A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230009028A1/en

varenc 3y ago
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- cyrnel 3y ago
  > a term that starts with "ste" and is up to 5 letters long. This is incorrect. The $5 matches up to 5 characters after "ste" for a total of 8 characters: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/assets/files/Search%20overview%20QRG%20-%20Patent%20Public%20Search.pdf https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/assets/files/Search... I suspect it's taking a wild guess because this search tool came out after ChatGPT's 2021 data cutoff date.
  - btrettel 3y ago
    I'm guessing they was trying to make sense of my search query? That document seems to explain the search operators, so here's my logic behind the choice of operators: Why `NEAR2`? Maybe Steve is their middle name, so `NEAR` won't work as it only looks at bordering names. I don't necessarily know if the databases are going to present the names as `Lindsay, Steve` or `Steve Lindsay`, so `ADJ` (where order matters) isn't a good choice. Why `ste$5`? Maybe they didn't use `Steve` as their name on the application. Could be `Steven` or `Stephen`. That suggests `ste$4`. However, I've found that adding an extra letter can be more robust. Maybe the database has a typo like `Stephenn`, hence the extra letter.

varenc 3y ago

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cyrnel 3y ago
> a term that starts with "ste" and is up to 5 letters long. This is incorrect. The $5 matches up to 5 characters after "ste" for a total of 8 characters: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/assets/files/Search%20overview%20QRG%20-%20Patent%20Public%20Search.pdf https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/assets/files/Search... I suspect it's taking a wild guess because this search tool came out after ChatGPT's 2021 data cutoff date.
- btrettel 3y ago
  I'm guessing they was trying to make sense of my search query? That document seems to explain the search operators, so here's my logic behind the choice of operators: Why `NEAR2`? Maybe Steve is their middle name, so `NEAR` won't work as it only looks at bordering names. I don't necessarily know if the databases are going to present the names as `Lindsay, Steve` or `Steve Lindsay`, so `ADJ` (where order matters) isn't a good choice. Why `ste$5`? Maybe they didn't use `Steve` as their name on the application. Could be `Steven` or `Stephen`. That suggests `ste$4`. However, I've found that adding an extra letter can be more robust. Maybe the database has a typo like `Stephenn`, hence the extra letter.