Patentability and State of the Art Searching Seminar (London, United Kingdom - February 26-27, 2020)

DUBLIN, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Patentability and State of the Art Searching" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

A new comprehensive and practical two-day seminar covering topics such as Background and motivations to patentability searching: differences between state of the art, patentability, and landscaping; Choosing a data collection: Understanding the background to a search; Fundamentals of search scope; Tools and methods for searching and analysis; Communication aspects.

Topics to be covered include:

• Background and motivations to patentability searching
• Differences between state-of-the-art, patentability and landscaping
• Choosing a data collection
• Understanding the background to a search
• Fundamentals of search scope
• Tools and methods for searching and analysis
• Evaluating search results

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
• All those with some limited experience or elf-taught in patent searching wanting to consolidate and enhance their skills

Programme Day One

Introduction to searching in the patent literature

• How patents differ from other technical documents

Choosing a data collection; understanding the range of databases available

• The impact of a search engine or vendor choice
• The human factor; understanding the role 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
• Using secondary and tertiary literature sources

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, text-mining
• Approaches to multi-lingual sources; document translation, query translation, abstraction

Programme Day Two

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
• Reviewing, iterating, relevancy and categorisation

Practical workshop

• Analysing and reporting your results
• Keep up to date with state of the art, monitoring new technologies, monitoring patent families

• Communication aspects

Evaluating search results against the search definition; iterations of search

• 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

Brief overview of distinctions between patentability and validity searching

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/kosceq

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