Explore the world of patents in new ways!

DuckDuckPatent is an innovative patent search engine which is designed for researchers, exploring the world of patents! The visualization of patents and related entities allows you to quickly get an overview of your search result. Additional information (e.g. Inventors, Applicants or Citations) can be dynamically added to the visualization by the user.

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Deployment

Requirements

• NodeJS v14.18 or later
• OPS-Developer Account
• Running KeywordSuggestion-API Docker container

Preparing client & server

• Run npm install in the client and server directories
• Inside the server directory run the command cp .env.example .env and add the environment variables in the newly copied file:
  • OPS_CONSUMER_KEY and OPS_CONSUMER_SECRET should be adapted from the OPS Developer portal
  • PATENT_API_URL should be the base-endpoint of the used PatentAPI
  • SUGGESTIONS_API_URL should be the endpoint of the keywords suggestion API

Building and deploying client & server

• Inside the client directory run npm run build. After finishing, the files for the frontend should be located in the client/dist/ folder and can be copied to a webservers root location of your choice
• Inside the server directory run npm run build. After finishing, the server can be started using the command node ./dist/main.js