How Can I Expand to See All the Family Members of The Patents Within My Workspace?

You can now expand to see all family members of the patents within any Workspace you are the owner of. This feature is particularly important while doing an FTO search when you might want to see all family members within a particular Workspace folder.  

Once families are expanded in a Workspace folder, the results will appear in the same folder. You can expand results by simple / INPADOC / PatSnap family.

Please note that irrespective of the family grouping you may have selected for the existing Workspace folder; the family expansion will always be performed for 'ungrouped' results. 

You can find family expansion mode by:

• Going to the data management tab 
• Next selecting automatic update 
• Then turning on family expansion mode at the bottom of the tab 

If you turn off family expansion mode, any new patents added to the Workspace folder will no longer automatically expand to family members. However, previously expanded families will remain in the folder.