CCD: New citation search tool

The European Patents Office, the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office and the Japanese Patents Office, during their latest cooperation meeting, launched a new search tool called CCD (Common Citation Document). This allows access to the results of patent searches performed for a single application in these offices.

It also offers a single point of access to the document data cited by the three offices, allowing both Patent Examiners and innovators and inventors to know the status of the Technique mentioned by the Offices for the members of a family of patents.

CCD can be accessed via the following link: please click here.