How to search by appEarlyPubNumber?

[rahul-gj]

I tried following.

from uspto.peds.client import UsptoPatentExaminationDataSystemClient

client = UsptoPatentExaminationDataSystemClient()

client.search('appEarlyPubNumber:(US 2006-0063272 A1)')
client.search('appEarlyPubNumber:(US 2006-0063272)')
client.search('appEarlyPubNumber:(2006-0063272 A1)')
client.search('appEarlyPubNumber:(2006-0063272 2017-0042821)')

all gives

{'numFound': 0,
 'start': 0,
 'docs': [],
 'metadata': {'indexLastUpdatedDate': 'Thu May 30 02:30:21 EDT 2019',
  'queryId': '9f12c1af-cb6b-4f8c-8e0e-97289ba404ec',
  'responseHeader': {'zkConnected': True, 'status': 0, 'QTime': 73}}}

I know client have some issues but search by patent number is working fine.

client.search('patentNumber:(6583088 6875727 8697602)')

[rahul-gj]

I tried it manually and by seeing network tab in chrome developer tools it was something like this.

"appEarlyPubNumber:(*20170042821*)"
I also tried multiple numbers like

client.search("appEarlyPubNumber:(*20180344680* *20180228903*)")

and it works.

Thanks.

[amotl]

Dear Rahul,

thanks for letting us know! I really would like to improve the CLI interface to better support such scenarios mainly revolving around acquisition of single or multiple application or publication numbers.

As I can see this also relates to #9, #11 and #12, I would like to reopen this issue to keep it as a bookmark for the point in time where I might get some time to dedicate to improvements like that.

Your investigations around that are very important, Rahul - so thanks again!

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[amotl]

Dear Rahul,

after also trying to query by appEarlyPubNumber, I can confirm your observations reported at #13 (comment). The documentation definitively should be updated.

With kind regards,
Andreas.