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Welcome to the Documentation Portal for CLAIMS Direct

CLAIMS Direct 2.1 is the most current production release of our servers and services. Here you will find information about our data coverage, how to install and use our services, and more. Please send your questions, comments, and suggestions to support@ificlaims.com.

Useful Links

CLAIMS Direct Video Introductions: instructional videos

CDWI User's Guide: general user's guide to the CLAIMS Direct Web Interface

What's New?

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Five Countries Added

Five new countries have been added to our full text coverage

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IP Profiles

Get succinct summaries of the intellectual property assets held by corporate entities

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Unitary Patents

Read about how CLAIMS Direct is dealing with Unitary Patent data in our new blog

Quick Links

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Video Introductions

Instructional videos

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System Administrator's Guide

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Guide to on-site installation, content updates, and installed tools

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Developer's Guide

Guide

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to CLAIMS Direct Web Services

SOLR Search Fields: list of searchable fields and field names

SOLR Searching Guide: information about how to conduct searches within CDWI

(CDWS)

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XML Content Description

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Please send your questions, comments, and suggestions to support@ificlaims.com.

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What's New?

We have recently added several new full text countries to our collection. See Release Notes for details.
See our new Content Notifications for information about a recent change affecting Czechoslovakia/Czechia number formats.
Use our new shared service API to query attachments: Attachment Collection.
We now have a place where you can find out about known content issues and their status. The Latest Content Updates and Known Issues page also provides the date of the most recent full text loads, listed by country.
New blog: SOLR Indexing Process Explained
Step-by-step installation guides are now available for PostgreSQL, client tools, SOLR, and CLAIMS Direct Web Services.
CDWS v3.5 has been released. See the Release Notes for details.