Significant Bit In a press release dated June 9, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced new rules governing the patent appeals process. The new rules were published in the Federal Register and can be downloaded as a PDF here: Download FR Notice
Explanation: Smart Search will look for Siemens as being the inventor/applicant (first letter in uppercase), for all EP, i.e. European patent applications (2 letters in uppercase for the country code) and 2007 as the publication date (4 digits for the year of publication).