| System Data | EAST |
| Owner Name | United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) |
| Intellogist Report | EAST |
| Address | Public Search Facility
600 Dulany St.
Madison East - 1st Floor
Alexandria Virginia 22314
United States |
| Main Telephone | 571-272-3275 |
| Main Facsimile | |
| Website | EAST |
| Customer Support Email | usptoinfo@uspto.gov |
| Tool Type | Patent Search Systems, Free Tools |
| Interface Language | English |
| Rating | EAST |
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| Overall Rating |
Rating: 4.6/5 (5 votes) |
| Data Coverage Rating |
Rating: 3.0/5 (5 votes) |
| Document Delivery Rating |
Rating: 3.0/5 (4 votes) |
| Import/Export Functions Rating |
Rating: 2.0/5 (4 votes) |
| Value Rating |
Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes) |
| Usability Rating |
Rating: 5.0/5 (4 votes) |
| Interface Functionality Rating |
Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes) |
| Search Accuracy Rating |
Rating: 5.0/5 (4 votes) |
| Company Strength Rating |
Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes) |
| Customer Support Rating |
Rating: 1.5/5 (4 votes) |
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| Data Coverage | EAST |
| Full Text: Patent Authority Coverage | US |
| Full Text: Patent Kind Coverage | US - Granted Patents; US - Published Applications |
| Full Text: Number of Authorities | 1 |
| Partial Text: Patent Authority Coverage | DWPI plus special collections for EP, WO/PCT, JP, CH, DE, FR, GB |
| Partial Text: Patent Text Covered | DWPI - Derwent Abstracts; EP, WO/PCT, JP, CH, DE, FR, and GB - English Abstracts |
| Bibliographic: Patent Authority Coverage | DWPI plus special collections for AP, AT, AU, BE, CA, CH, CS, CZ, DE, DK, EP, ES, FR, GB, HU, IT, JP, LU, MX, NL, PT, RO, RU, SK, SU, WO/PCT and additional authorities BG, LT, LV, MY, OA, PL, SI, TH |
| Machine Pre-Translated Data |  No |
| Full Document Images: Patent Authority Coverage | AP, AT, AU, BE, BG, CA, CH, CS, CZ, DE, DK, EP, ES, FR, GB, HU, IT, JP, LT, LU, LV, MX, MY, NL, OA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SI, SK, SU, TH, WO/PCT |
| Representative/Front Page Images | Representative images are available from the DWPI file. |
| Full Patent Drawing Sets | Mosaics or full drawing sets are not available separately from the complete document images. |
| Corporate Tree Data | No |
| Non-Patent Coverage | No |
| Non-Patent Sources | N/A |
| Special Indexing |  Yes, the DWPI file contains special indexing. |
| Update Frequency | The US collection is updated on the day of publication for new US documents. Foreign data has a longer update cycle on the order of weeks or months. |
| Comments on Missing Coverage | As with any patent collection, gaps in coverage may exist but have not been discovered or quantified. |
| Family Data | EAST |
| Inpadoc Family Data Coverage | No |
| Types of Family Definition | DWPI families |
| Derwent WPI Family Coverage | Yes |
| Citation Data | EAST |
| Backward Citations | Yes |
| Forward Citations | Yes |
| Citation Data Coverage | US |
| Special Features of Citation Search | Hyperlinks are provided to forward and backward citations from the record view. Forward and backward citation searching is available from the search interface. A simultaneous forward-and-backward citation search can be run for any document in the hit list. |
| Citation Visualization Tool | None |
| Legal Status Data | EAST |
| Legal Status Data Included | No |
| Legal Status Data Sources | N/A |
| Classification Data | EAST |
| Current US Class | Yes |
| Original US Class | Yes |
| IPC - R | Yes |
| Original IPC data (v1-v7) | Yes |
| ECLA | Yes |
| Japanese File Index Terms | No |
| Japanese F-Terms | No |
| Other National Classification Systems | Yes, Locarno |
| Search Interface Functionality | EAST |
| Search Form | No |
| Command Line Style Interface | Yes |
| Index Browsing Feature | No |
| Allowed Operators | Boolean and proximity operators are available. Proximity operators are fixed-order, and allow users to define the maximum distance between terms. Sentence and paragraph-based proximity operators are also available. |
| Truncation | Limited and unlimited left, right, and internal truncation and SLART are supported. At least one operator can represent 0-or-1 characters. |
| Unique Features of the Search Interface | Advanced command line environment features term-specific data field selection; active folders to the right of the command box retain queries and show hit counts; failed queries are saved and can be edited and re-executed. |
| Viewing Results | EAST |
| Max Hit List Size | Unlimited |
| Single Representative Image | Yes |
| View Full Document Image | Yes, full document images may be viewed side-by-side with electronic text. The customizeable layout allows multiple windows open to the patent image at once. |
| Patent Drawing Thumbnail Overview | No |
| Family Sorting | No, but records in DWPI are already organized by patent family, so this function is not necessary in that file. |
| Sorting by Other Criteria | Yes, a result set or work file can be sorted by a wide range of data elements. |
| Deduplication | No |
| On-the-Fly Machine Translations | No |
| Keyword Term Highlighting | Yes |
| Keyword Term Navigation | No |
| User-Defined Highlighting | Yes, monochromatic highlighting is used. |
| Highlighting Feature Supports Proximity Operators | No |
| Save Custom Lists From Search Results | Yes, saving is done tagging relevant documents, which are automatically copied into the "tagged" folder. |
| Combining Custom Patent List | Yes |
| Unique Features of The Record View | Highly customizeable record view layout; keyboard shortcuts may be used for fast image flipping; images may be viewed side-by-side with electronic text, keywords in context; autoflip feature; tools for image viewing include zoom and rotation. |
| Search History | EAST |
| Saving Search Queries | Yes, the system saves queries automatically. The user must save the workspace in order to access these queries in a future session. |
| Organizing Search Queries | Yes, queries may be organized into user-created folders. |
| Stored Search Query Expiration Time | Saved queries do not expire when saved as part of a workspace. |
| Combining Search Queries | Yes |
| Exporting Search Histories | No, however, search histories may be be printed, and emailed. |
| Alerts | No |
| Import, Export and Download | EAST |
| Import List of Document Numbers | No |
| Export Document Data | No, however, selected results may be pasted into an email. |
| Formats for Export Data | Text (email) |
| Individual Patent Copy Downloading | No |
| Bulk Patent Copy Downloading | No |
| File Format for Patent Copy Downloads | N/A |
| Analysis | EAST |
| Statistical Analysis | No |
| Graphs | No |
| Keyword Analysis | No |
| Customer Support | EAST |
| Cost/Usage Tracking | Yes |
| On-Site Training | No |
| Scheduled Web Seminars | No |
| Live Help | Yes |
| Online User Guide | Yes |
| Pricing | EAST |
| Pricing Policy | Free. However, printing requires a fee. Online print fees of $0.25 per page, or $0.50 per page for color printers, are collected at the workstation via on-line UPWS accounts. |
| Assessment | EAST |
| Primary System Strengths | Fast image searching; free access to DWPI data. |
| Weaknesses and Annoyances | No data import function or PDF download option; limited and infrequently updated foreign coverage; no analysis features; no relevancy ranking; only available on-site at the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| Overall Assessment | The service is a very powerful tool, especially for searching US data. Lightning-fast image searching is ideal for searchers in the mechanical arts. |
| Company Strength | Many of EAST's advantages come from the fact that it is produced by and available at the USPTO. The high-bandwidth connection, free access, and up-to-the-minute US data coverage are all possible because of the USPTO. |
