LOCARNO Internet Publication Help

EDITION

The edition drop-down selector on the left side of the screen allows you to change the edition currently displayed in all tabs of the internet publication. For older editions that cannot be displayed in LOCPUB, links to previous files are displayed.

The edition can also be linked directly in the address bar as http://web2.wipo.int/classifications/locarno/locpub/en/fr/<YYYYMMDD>/ where <YYYYMMDD> is the date the given edition goes into force.

OTHERS

Drop-down selector to access other Editions outside LOCPUB

CLASS INDEX

Class selector interface divided into the 32 classes. Click any one of the class numbers to view the indications corresponding to that class.

LANGUAGE

Four configurations are available in Authentic Languages: English, French, Bilingual with English on left, and Bilingual with French on left.

To visit the LOCARNO Classification in other language combinations, click in the “Other” dropdown menu.

LINKS TO DESIGN OFFICES

Provides access to other language of LOCARNO Classification (as established by some national authorities), and databases.

VIEW MODE

The three view modes render the same list of goods in different ways:

The LOC+EPIC and Epic modes show the hierarchical structure of goods within their respective hierarchy groups.

-       EPIC mode displays the groups in the hierarchical tree in a collapsed state. Click on a hierarchy group title to expand it and view the indications of individual goods under it. Subgroups can be similarly expanded. Clicking the hierarchy group title a second time will collapse it once more. When expanded, the title will show a plus icon (). When collapsed, a minus icon ( ) is displayed.

-       LOC mode displays all the goods in the class in a single list.

-       In LOC+EPIC mode, the entire tree of hierarchy groups with their associated goods is displayed. All groups are visible in an indented tree structure.

The terms are sorted in alphabetical order of the sort expression, which is highlighted in bold for each indication.

Synonym indications, if there are any, are displayed beside the master indication. Synonym indications are separated from the master and other synonym indications by displaying in next row.

SHOW

Regardless of view mode, the class heading is displayed at the top of the page.

-       The “Notes” checkbox on the left interaction bar can be ticked to display the explanatory notes for the class under the class heading.

-       The “ID Numbers” checkbox toggles whether or not basic numbers for each term are displayed to the left of that term.

LOCARNO Last modified:

Date of the last change in LOCPUB.

Bridge function

Clicking on this icon next to each indication will open a pop-up window; clicking on one of the offered choices in the pop-up window either displays the closest corresponding indication in the selected language version or initiates a search in the selected database with the respective indication as parameter.

PDF view

Clicking on this icon next to the Class number title opens the corresponding Class in PDF format.

Background color

The following color coding is applied to backgrounds of LOCARNO entries:

-       Hierarchic titles are highlighted with a pale orange background.

-       Occurrences of searched indications are highlighted with a green background.

Linked basic numbers

When clicking an hyperlinked basic numbers, the corresponding indication will be displayed in the Class tab highlighted with a green background.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

Select a letter of the alphabet from either the goods table to view the list.

PDF view

Clicking on this icon next to the “List of Classes with explanatory notes” title opens the full list of classes with explanatory notes in PDF format.

PDF view

Clicking on this icon next to the “General Remarks” title opens the General Remarks in PDF format.

PDF view

Clicking on this icon next to the “Recommendations” title opens the Recommendations in PDF format.

ID Number or Search Terms

ID Number Search

To look up a good basic number, type a six digit number into the “ID Number or Search Terms” box. As soon as a six digit number is recognized, other inputs on the search form are disabled and the search button label is changed to reflect a basic number lookup. Click the button or press enter on the search field to perform the search.

Provided the ID Number is a valid good in the Classification, the results page contains information about the class and, optionally, the hierarchy groups containing the requested good. Only those groups that are direct ancestors of the requested term are displayed, and their representation depends on the same view mode selectors described for the Class tab. The information file icons are displayed with the search results, in the same way as displays on the Class tab.

Term Search

If anything other than a six digit number is entered into the search box, a term search is performed. Optionally choose to limit the search to specific classes and have the option to enable or disable searching of information files.

The search engine is indexed separately for English and French languages. When a bilingual data language is selected, the search only occurs in the first language. The search index automatically takes care of word stemming and other patterns based on the grammars of the primary data language.

If a list of several terms separated by spaces is introduced, either the Boolean operator OR, or the operator AND is applied between the terms, according to the choice of the radio button.  Alternatively, combinations of Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, wildcards etc. can be introduced in the Search Terms box.  For more information see “Search Syntax” below.

The Search form can be submitted either by clicking the “Search” button or pressing the enter key on any of the input fields.

At the top of the search results page, a table listing all matching classes in order of the number of matches in each class is displayed. Click a class number link to jump to the class in the search results.

The results page for a term search can be manipulated in the same way as the Class tab, with separate view modes for LOC+EPIC, EPIC and LOC display, and checkboxes to show or hide explanatory notes or basic numbers are displayed. However, only those goods that have indications matching the search terms are displayed. Hierarchy groups are displayed only if their titles match the search term, or if they contain other hierarchy groups, goods that match the search term. Thus, the entire tree structure above each matching term is displayed.

Words matching your search terms are highlighted with a green background.

Operators:

The AND operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the AND operator is used. This operator matches entries where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single place.

The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching place if either of the terms exist in this place.

Exact search:

Looks for the exact match of the term searched.

Select classes:

To limit your search to specific classes, tick the check boxes beside any classes you want to search before submitting the search. The four selectors above the list of classes allow for manipulating the class selection in bulk. Choose to select all classes, or none. Further fine tune your selecting by ticking or unticking individual checkboxes for each class.

“Search” button

The list of search results is displayed. Occurrences of searched indications are highlighted with a green background.