Usage

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Introduction

For using Patent2Net, you should be reasonably familiar with the CQL query language used for submitting queries to the Open Patent Services API.

Please follow up with these resources to learn something about CQL:

• CQL query howto by the Patent2Net project
• The OPS Reference Guide, see pages 56 ff. and pages 130 ff.
• The Contextual Query Language Specification

Operation

Patent2Net offers two modes of operation:

• Classic mode
• Ad-hoc mode