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The workshops at the conference are your chance to get involved in discussions and help the EPO to set its priorities for European patent information in future. They last for one hour and 30 minutes.
Tutorials will take place in parallel to the workshops. The main difference is that they are shorter, lasting only 40 minutes, and the participants are not expected to contribute actively. They are aimed at giving delegates a brief, but very focussed insight into specific topics.
Important announcement:
Pre-registration is required for the workshops and
tutorials taking place on 28 October.
Every conference delegate is entitled to participate in one workshop or
tutorial (depending on seat availability). To register, please go to the
workshops section of the general
conference registration form
.
We will not
grant admission to the workshops to people who have not registered in advance.
Depending on demand, some workshops and tutorials will be repeated on the
second day of the conference. These will be open to all participants as far as
the room capacity allows and no pre-registration is necessary. In parallel to
the workshops and tutorials, plenary seminars will be held in the main conference hall
- no pre-registration is required.
Except for a special workshop for expert users which is planned for 27 October, all workshops and tutorials will take place on 28 and 29 October as follows:
Tuesday 28 October
| 09.00 - 10.30 hrs |
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|---|---|
| Workshop A (09.00 - 10.30) |
What are the best ways to retrieve data on the fate of EP patents after grant?***
Up to the date of grant and the end of the opposition period, the European Patent Register gives details on the procedural status of all European patent applications. But after that date, the European patent divides into a multitude of national patents, each administrated by the national patent office concerned. This workshop will take a look at the options available for finding out what happens to these European patents in the "national phase". Participants will be invited to share their experiences in this open session. |
| Workshop B (09.00 - 10.30) |
Chinese patent information: what do searchers need?**
The EPO Patent Information Conference 2007 in Riga identified the retrieval of data on Chinese patent rights as one of the greatest challenges today to the patent searcher. This workshop will take a look at the new services that have appeared in the year that has passed since the 2007 conference, and in particular at developments in machine-translation solutions for Chinese. Participants will be expected to give feedback on their own experiences in this area, and to help establish what contribution the EPO can make. |
| Workshop C (09.00 - 10.30) |
From ancient traditional knowledge to the internet: is non-patent literature the new challenge in searching?***
In some technical fields, there is an increasing realisation that searching patent documents alone is no longer a satisfactory way of obtaining a comprehensive overview of the prior art. The situation is complicated by debates over what kind of disclosure constitutes prior art in the eyes of the patent offices. The results of these debates will inevitably have an impact on patent searching. This workshop will discuss the legal environment and ask what the EPO, and what searchers can do to safeguard high quality patent searches. |
| Tutorial I (09.00 - 09.40) |
How does the EPO know when to stop a search?**
The goal of a prior art search at the EPO is to retrieve any documents that could have an impact on the patentability of the invention as claimed. Examiners' have a vast range of tools and databases to help them in their quest to retrieve such documents and, depending on the technical field, it takes them about a day to carry out each search. But this is just an average and, inevitably, some searches take longer than others. This lecture will explain what factors determine when an examiner will decide to terminate a search. |
| Tutorial II (09.50 - 10.30) |
Patent statistics and patent mapping*
There is a growing awareness that patent information can help the decision-making process at boardroom level. To do this, it is not so important to understand the content of individual patents, but rather to understand the "big picture". Patent statistics and patent mapping are techniques for putting together the information decision-makers in companies need. This tutorial will demonstrate the ways information of this nature can be retrieved from EPO databases and presented to make it easily digestible at a general level. |
| Plenary seminar (09.15 - 10.15) |
What do the national gateways on esp@cenet offer?*
Did you know that almost all EPO member states maintain their own esp@cenet server and that you can use it to retrieve a wealth of national data using the familiar esp@cenet interface? Attend this open session if you would like to find out more about the wide range of data available to you in the more "hidden" corners of the esp@cenet service. |
| 10.45 - 12.15 hrs | |
|---|---|
| Workshop D (10.45 - 12.15) |
How is Web 2.0 influencing patent searching?**
Will engineers around the world one day be invited to contribute to classify and add value to patent documents? How participative can a prior art patent search process be thanks to new technologies? Is patent searching already evolving with the Web 2.0 spirit? Web 2.0 has already revolutionised the encyclopaedia and dictionary industries. Many information professionals and producers are also having to face the challenge of a wealth of free, good quality material on the Web. Is patent searching the next profession where Web 2.0 will have an impact? Join this workshop and discuss how patent offices and patent searchers need to take Web 2.0 into account. |
| Workshop E (10.45 - 12.15) |
Are users' expectations being met with IPC revisions?**
The International Patent Classification (IPC) was completely reformed at the beginning of 2006, with the introduction of the Advanced and Core Levels, and the reclassification of the entire patent documentation backfile. Intermediate revisions of the Advanced Level have taken place regularly since then, and now the first Core Level revision is in planning (implementation due January 2009). After the initial "settling down" period, have users' expectations been met? Will the Core Level revision go smoothly? Participants at this workshop will have an opportunity to discuss these matters directly with the EPO experts on the subject. |
| Tutorial III (10.45 - 11.25) |
OPS in action**
OPS ("Open Patent Services") is a service provided by the EPO for the automated retrieval of data from esp@cenet without the need to pass via the HTML esp@cenet interface. OPS is more flexible than esp@cenet, but users need to have some programming knowledge to set up their own data retrieval solution. Participants in this tutorial will learn about:
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| Tutorial IV (10.45 - 11.25) |
Getting the most from ESPACE
EP - tips for setting up regular searches and optimising results.**
In May 2008, the EPO launched ESPACE EP, making four weeks of EP-A and B full-text publications available to patent searchers free of charge. This session will give participants a high-speed tour of the key features of the new database, focussing on the software features that are most relevant for regular users. The session will conclude with an opportunity for participants to give their feedback on the new database. |
| Tutorial V (11.35 - 12.15) |
Tips & tricks for searching East Asian databases*
This 40-minute session will give a brief overview of some of the major resources for searching patent data in China, Japan and Korea, with a special emphasis on free-of-charge internet services. It will also take a look at some of the difficulties users encounter with East Asian data and provide a few hints on how to overcome them. |
| Tutorial VI (11.35 - 12.15) |
Using the alert service for the European Patent Register**
The EPO recently completely overhauled its alert service for the European Patent Register. Attend this tutorial if your work includes the regular monitoring of patent applications passing through the EPO and learn how you can set up e-mail alerts so that you never miss an important event in the lives of the patent applications you monitor. |
| Plenary seminar (11.00 - 12.00) |
Using the new features on esp@cenet
*
2008 will be a year of major enhancements to the esp@cenet service, with the introduction of full-text searching and a single "Google style" search box. This lecture will give a detailed introduction to these news features. It is expected to attract a lot of interest and will therefore take place in the main conference room. No pre-registration is required. |
Ratings
*** for experts
** some experience required
* no prior experience required
Further information on registering for workshops and tutorials
There is space for approximately 40 participants in each workshop or tutorial. Based on the principle of first-come, first-served, we shall endeavour to place each conference registrant in their first choice of workshop/tutorial. If this is not possible, a place will be looked for in their second-choice. We try to avoid placing two participants from one company or organisation in one workshop or tutorial.
During the final two weeks leading up to the conference, any remaining places in the workshops will be filled by taking into account registrants' second and third choices.
Workshop chairmen
Are you interested in being a workshop chairman? Is there a workshop subject that you would like to see, but we have not included this year?
Please send your suggestions to conference@epo.org.