Freedom to Operate Searching

4 Oct 2017

	GBP	EUR	USD
Standard	699	979	1090
Excluding VAT @ 20.00%

Venue: Rembrandt Hotel, London

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8 Feb 2018

	GBP	EUR	USD
Standard	699	979	1090
Excluding VAT @ 20.00%

Venue: Rembrandt Hotel, London

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Course Overview

A comprehensive one day seminar covering topics such as:-

Background and motivations to searching freedom-to-operate
Understanding the background, defining terms and objectives
Fundamentals of FTO search scope
Methods for searching for claimed features
Using basic legal status tools to assist evaluation
Understanding and reporting the results from an FTO perspective

Book both

This meeting runs back-to-back with Patentability and State-of-the-art Searching on 2-3 October 2017 and there is a £100/€140 discount off Freedom to Operate Searching when booked together.

To register on both events events click HERE

To find out more call Customer Services on +44 (0)20 7749 4730 or e-mail info@management-forum.co.uk

Who should attend

All those working in IP or patent information or patent engineer roles either in industry or legal businesses
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
These seminars are ideal for those with some limited experience or self- taught in patent searching wanting to consolidate their skills

Programme

Background and motivations to freedom-to-operate searching; extent, timing, caveats

Understanding the background to a search
Terminology variation and search objectives

Fundamentals of FTO search scope

In-force patents
Other IP rights
Pending applications
Recently lapsed rights
Expired rights
Non-patent literature
Analysing the search question; multiple aspects or features
Understanding the results from an FTO perspective; multiple aspects or features

Methods for searching for claimed features; full text and text segments, extended classifications

Using basic legal status tools to assist evaluation; finding amended claims
After the subject search; verifying status of patents

Reporting aspects for an FTO search

Presenter

Stephen Adams

Stephen Adams is Director of Magister Ltd, a patents documentation consultancy and training service. He worked in technical information for over 20 years, latterly for nearly 9 years with Zeneca Agrochemicals (now Syngenta) as their principal patent searcher. He is Director-at-Large for PIUG Inc.