Groups should apply to ALL members of a family

Hi Bruno,

I'm in the process of making groups in a large set of patents.

I do searches => I obtain results => I add the results to a group

Situation:

- According to my knowledge, when MP shows the results of a search, it always shows the "main patent" and the members that comply to the search.

- Usually not all the members of the same patent family comply to the same search. Usually patent members without title/abstract never appear, so they are not assigned to any group.

- So now when doing the grouping process, not all the members of the same family are assigned to a group

Suggestion:

a) I think that the grouping should apply to all the members of the same family by default (If I assign a patent to a group, all the members should be assigned too)

b) If this is not possible, it should be available a function to "transmit" automatically all the groups from the main patent to all the members of the same family.

Thanks
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Juan Carlos Vergara

Hi Bruno,

Now in october 2006 I'm in the same point as in nov 2005... you did not answer then, I suppose it is a complicated matter.

MP does not have ANY AUTOMATIC WAY to mark FAMILIES but just INDIVIDUAL PATENTS from a local search...

When filtering ... I have dispersed members of families marked as favorites, but I'd like to be MARKED the ENTIRE FAMILY to follow the cleaning process of a search in a logical way... Confused

... any idea? Does anyone have any recommendation?

Could it be possible to FORCE MP to SHOW ALL MEMBERS of a family if just one of them comply to a local search criteria?

Perhaps the mechanism is to include a box in the local search form. When this box is marked then MP "shows all members" of a family?

I'm looking exactly for the same mechanism that MP uses with Espacenet "Download Patent Family"... but LOCALLY in MP.

I mark intensivelly this box "Download Patent Family". Otherways the results from Espacenet will be always INCOMPLETE. The same rule/problem apply in local searches.

please think about it, if solved that would be great.

Regards
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Juan Carlos Vergara