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Freedom-to-Operate Searching
Get to grips with the fundamentals of FTO searching, understand the scope of a search and analyse the types of rights you will encounter.
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Course overview
To excel in your searching role you need to get to grips with the fundamentals of FTO, understand the scope of a search and analyse the types of rights you will encounter. Critically, you also need to understand how to interpret and evaluate the results from an FTO perspective. Are you up to date with the latest searching methods and technologies? Can you verify the status of patents and report your FTO search accurately?
This must-attend, value-rich event, led by an expert in the field, will answer all your queries and ensure you’re working effectively and comprehensively to get the best results for your business or client.
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
Presenter
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.
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