Notice of Service Failure

2015-12-21

Notice of Service Failure

Due to a system failure that occurred around 16:00 (GMT+10:00) December 21, 2015, part of the patent search service is not available (Service of the U.S. application, U.S. granted, JP publication and JP granted, and Europe Japanese abstract).


Service Failure Recovery

For each database that you can not search, we are rebuilding the index now.

The rebuilding of the index proceeds gradually. We are planning a full recovery to the date and time of the following.

While index rebuilding, you can use the service, but the search records are limited to only those of the indexed. Please take care search results is not perfect.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

In addition, we will announce on this page the recovery progress.


  • JP Publication Completed
  • JP Granted Completed
  • US Application Completed
  • US Granted Completed
  • Europe Japanese abstract Completed