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Patentability and State-of-the-Art Searching Training Course
A comprehensive and practical two-day seminar covering the key aspects of patentability and state-of-the-art searching.
5-6 Oct 2021
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Course overview
The world of patents and state-of-the-art searching can be a minefield if you’re not fully up to date with latest practices and technologies. This practical course will take you through the processes of defining, instigating and completing a state-of-the-art search in relation to patents.
From understanding the range of databases available, choosing a data collection and defining your search scope, right through to completing the search and evaluating the results, the expert trainers will give you all the insights you need to avoid costly pitfalls. They will make sure you are up to date with new technologies and offer guidance on monitoring patent families. This is a must-attend, value-rich event for all those involved in state-of-the-art searching.
Who should attend?
- All those working in IP or patent information or patent engineer roles either in industry or legal businesses, including:
- IP managers
- Patent research specialists and analysts
- Patent attorneys
- R&D scientists and engineers wanting to ensure they are not ‘re-inventing the wheel’
- Customer service and training representatives in the commercial information provider community who want to know more about what their customers do with patent data
- All those wanting to consolidate and enhance their skills in searching
Programme
Introduction to searching in the patent literature
- Searching – process overview
- The basics of information retrieval
- The three elements of any search
- Data quality
- Technical steps – precision and recall in practice
- Human skills
- How patents differ from other technical documents
Choosing a data collection and understanding the range of databases available
- The impact of search engine or vendor choice
- Forms of database and the implications for searching
- The responsibility and skills of the searcher
- Pre-search briefing and post-search reporting – communication aspects
Background and motivations to patentability searching: extent, timing, caveats
- Understanding the background to a search
- Novelty or patentability?
- Approaches to the search – source-based, concept-based
- Using secondary and tertiary literature sources
- Pre-search preparation and maximising efficiency
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Fundamentals of the search scope
- Defining a search for universal novelty
- Searching for (lack of) inventive step
- Some differences in US practice
- Overall search protocols – narrowing or widening the scope
- Methods for searching by subject: text, classifications, citations and text-mining
- Approaches to multilingual sources: document translation, query translation and abstraction
Background and definition of state-of-the-art searching
- The differences between state of the art, patentability and landscaping
- Scoping the request for technology or state-of-the-art analysis
- Search considerations and planning
- Setting up alerts for monitoring state of the art
- Reviewing, iterating, relevancy and categorisation
Practical workshop
- Analysing and reporting your results
- Keep up to date with state of the art: monitoring new technologies and patent families
Evaluating search results against the search definition
- Search iterations
- Indirect methods for identifying additional prior art: inventor/assignee, technical equivalents
- Special aspects of searches in different technical fields: chemical, electrical, mechanical
- Specialist tools in chemistry and life sciences
Overview of distinctions between patentability and validity searching
- Objectives and outcomes of a validity search
- Implications for liability
- Validity challenges
- Sources for file histories
- Guidelines for search: reactions, mixtures and formulations
Presenters
Stephen Adams (More...)
Stephen Adams is Director of Magister Ltd, a patents documentation consultancy and training service. For a number of years, he worked as a technical information searcher in the field of food science at the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Following a period as editor of ‘International Packaging Abstracts’ at Pira International, he moved to ICI Agrochemicals (later Zeneca Agrochemicals) to become their principal patent searcher. He founded Magister Limited in 1997. Between 2002 and 2006, Stephen served as the first non-US ‘Director at Large’ for the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG Inc). In 2014, he was re-elected as Vice-Chair of the same organisation. In May 2008, he received a Special Recognition Award from the PIUG. He is also on the editorial board of ‘World Patent Information’, the international journal for industrial property documentation, information, classification and statistics. In 2012 Stephen was named as the IPI-Award recipient by the Selection Board of the International Patent Information Award for that year. He is the author of ‘Information Sources in Patents’, as well as numerous publications and articles.
Jane List (More...)
Jane List has run her own business, Extract Information Limited, providing consultancy, search services, and training, all with a focus on commercial uses of patent information, since January 2013. Prior to this Jane worked on both sides of the information business – the commercial information provider side, in content development, product management, commercial strategy and training roles, and in industry in technology consultancy, and science focused organisations where she was responsible for IP matters, scientific, technical and market information. She teaches on commercial searching including patent landscaping and state of the art searching and reporting in the UK and The Netherlands. She has a BSc, MRSC in Chemistry; MSc in Information Science and Cert. in Intellectual Property Law. She has published papers and spoken at global conferences on patent information matters, and is an active member of PATMG, PIUG and BPIP, professional patent information user groups. In July 2014 she became co-Editor in Chief of ‘World Patent Information Journal’.
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