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.

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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 self-taught in patent
        searching wanting to consolidate and enhance their skills

Agenda:

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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