Add + in front of terms/phrases that must appear in results.
Add - in front of terms/phrases that must not appear in results.
The 'Find all terms' checkbox adds a plus in front of all terms/phrases for convenience.
The search finds words in the body and title.
Special characters like #!$%|&..etc. are allowed.
Feel free to search for numbers like '102' or '706.07'.
Stop-terms are common terms like "it and the that...".
Words less than 3 characters are not searched.
Boolean search terms do not work.
Searching for 'word1 or word2' will ignore 'or' and search for 'word1 word2' (although this results
in essentially the same thing!). If 'Find all terms'
is selected, the search 'word1 or word2' will search for '+word1 +word2'.
Advanced Search Tips
Searching can be expanded with a wildcard (*).
Adding a * to the end of a term will match all endings. For example: 'test*' will match 'tests' 'tested' 'testing' etc. Stop-terms are included in wildcard searches.
Disclaimer:
These HTML versions are known to contain some
artifacts of file conversion from the source format. The authoritative content of the
MPEP is found in the print version; therefore, this MPEP search is intended solely
for providing general locations of search terms within the sections of the MPEP.
