• OR operator: "|"

  The following example returns documents that contain either "declaration" or "131"

  declaration | 131
• NOT operators: "-", "!"

  The following examples return documents that contain "rejection" but not "ksr":

  rejection -ksr
  rejection !ksr
  
• phrase search operator:

  example: "131 declaration"

• proximity search operator: a matching document must contain up to, but not including, n (e.g. 5 in the example) words between the search terms

  syntax: "term1 term2 term3"~n
  example: "131 declaration"~5

• strict order operator (aka operator "before"):

  syntax: term1 << term2 <<term3
  example: preliminary << amendment

The AND operator is the default, so "131 declaration" means that both "131" and "declaration" must be present in a matching document.

OR operator precedence is higher than AND

Proximity distance is specified in words, adjusted for word count, and applies to all words within quotes. For instance, "131 132 declaration"~5 query means that there must be a span of less than 8-words which contains all 3 words.

• Proximity: "131 declaration"~10
• OR: bilski | ksr
• NOT: rejection -101

• Rejection
• Appeal
• Claims | Specification
• Affidavits
• Arguments

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• Use this field to control which keywords are highlighted on your search results page. This helps you visually discern which results are most relevant to your search.
• You can use one or more terms here, including, but not limited to the terms in your primary search query

• After you have added applications to your "My File Wrappers " list or your "Watch" list you will be provided with unique tags which can be entered here to limit your search to either set of applications.
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• Use this field to search only the text of a specific type of correspondence document (e.g. rejections, appeals, petitions etc).
• As an example, you can search only the text of Rejections by entering "rejection" in this field.
• Correspondence document titles are derived from the Document Description field that appears in Public PAIR.
• Please note that you are not required to select from the drop-down list of document types. Free-form text entry is allowed here so that you can broadly search for a document type. For example, running a search with only the term "rejection" will capture both Non-Final Rejections and Final Rejections.

• Use this field to search only File Wrappers that have at least one of a specific type of correspondence document (e.g. rejections, appeals, petitions etc).
• As an example, you can search only File Wrappers that have received a Notice of Allowance by entering "notice of allowance" in this field.

The Most Recent Correspondence filter allows you to limit your search results to applications with most recent file wrapper activity occurring between the 'Earliest' and 'Latest' dates that you define. This filter can be applied when performing either a Full File Wrapper search or a Correspondence search.

Please note: Only a subset of the file wrappers in our database are synched with Public PAIR on a regular basis. Always use Public PAIR or our Monitoring Service if you need the most up to date information for a particular file wrapper.

The Correspondence Date filter allows you to limit your search results to correspondence documents having a mail date occurring between the 'Earliest' and 'Latest' dates that you define. This filter can be applied only when performing a Correspondence search.

Please note: Only a subset of the file wrappers in our database are synched with Public PAIR on a regular basis. Always use Public PAIR or our Monitoring Service if you need the most up to date information for a particular file wrapper.

The filing date filter allows you to limit your search results to applications that have been filed between the 'Earliest' and 'Latest' dates that you define. This filter can be applied when performing either a Full File Wrapper search or a Correspondence search.

• Full File Wrapper Search - Select this option to search the OCR'd text of entire file wrappers.
  • Please note that we do not OCR all correspondence document types. As an example, Foreign References are currently excluded. Please see our FAQ for more information on which correspondence documents are excluded.
• Correspondence Search - select this option to search only the text of specific type of correspondence document types (e.g. rejections, appeals, petitions etc).
  • As an example, you can search only the text of Rejections by entering "rejection" in this field.
  • Correspondence document titles are derived from the Document Description field that appears in Public PAIR.

Here you can specify the Primary US Class and Subclass you would like to limit your search results to.