How to search patents outside of the US?

[yiouyou]

I was previously informed that PQAI supports searches outside of the United States, but I cannot find documentation on how to perform such searches. Could you please help me with this?

Thanks!

[mahesh-maan]

@yiouyou This repository does not have non-US patent database.

Searching patents outside US is currently only supported on PQAI's web app or through the API available as part of PQAI+ subscription.

If you have access to non-US patent data, you can use the PQAI codebase to index it and search through it. You can find non-US patent data on Google Patents Public Dataset.

[yiouyou]

I have the PQAI+ subscription. Is there any documents I can follow?

Thanks!

[mahesh-maan]

@yiouyou After logging into the web app, please go to My Account. You will find your API key there. Then you can make API requests as per this documentation: https://api.projectpq.ai/docs.

[yiouyou]

I'm familiar with how to search through the API. What I'd like to clarify is:

1. Are there any differences between conducting searches inside versus outside of the US?

2. If I've already implemented code for searches within the US, do I need to make any modifications to extend its functionality to include searches outside the US as well?

[mahesh-maan]

@yiouyou There is no difference. If you already have a system implemented for conducting US searches, now you would automatically get non-US results (along with US results) in the API response. There is no need to change anything.

[yiouyou]

Perfect, thanks!