Training
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Delegates can choose from a wide range of training courses on offer at the EPO Patent Information Conference 2013. For the full programme, see below.
To register for a course please use the general registration form which contains a special section on the conference's training courses.
The courses are designed to help you optimise your knowledge of patent information and how you perform searches.
Each course can be booked individually. All training courses are in English.
| Monday 21.10.2013 | |||
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| 10.00 - 13.00 hrs |
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| T1 Cooperative Patent Classification |
T3 Finding legal status info from Asia and beyond |
T5 Understanding patent families at the EPO (11.00 - 13.00 hrs) |
T9 Searching Italian patent documentation |
| 14.00 - 17.00 hrs |
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| T2 FI and F-Terms practical |
T4 Legal status products from the EPO |
T6 Competitive intelligence from patent information - search reports and the Common Citation Document |
T7 Search legal status with Global patent index |
| Thursday 24.10.2013 |
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| 14.00 - 17.00 hrs |
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| T8 PATSTAT online with worldwide legal status data |
T10 Two sides of the Espacenet coin |
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Monday, 21 October 2013 morning session
T1: Cooperative Patent Classification (Learning some specific CPC features, e.g. usage of CPC main trunk symbols vs. indexing codes")
Trainer: Roberto Iasevoli, EPO
In this training session we'll update you on the implementation of the CPC. You'll increase your understanding of some specific features of the CPC, for example the different scope and usage of the CPC "main trunk" symbols vs. CPC "indexing codes", as well as the scope and usage of the symbols in the Y section. You will also learn what there is in the CPC for you, and how we can support you in using the CPC, e.g. through Espacenet or web services and in following changes to the CPC scheme as they happen.
Level: Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T3: Finding legal status info from Asia and beyond
Trainers: Christine Kämmer and Jutta Hausser, EPO
In this session, we will discuss the different sources available for retrieving legal status information from Asian countries. The main focus will be on China, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Korea, where a number of databases for comprehensive legal status information retrieval are available. We'll show how to search the most important legal status events in English and how to supplement this information by looking at the electronic files. Questions of time lag and data coverage will also be addressed. You'll learn when and how to use original language sources in order to avoid gaps in information. Finally, we'll show some legal status information services from the ASEAN member states and Arabic countries.
Level: Beginners
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T5: Understanding patent families at the EPO
Trainer: Fenny Versloot, EPO
This course illustrates the key features of the extended and the simple patent families available on the Espacenet and OPS systems. Starting with an overview of the data flows and structure of the EPO databases, it will introduce the concept of patent family and its application at the EPO. To illustrate the usefulness of patent families, we'll discuss some strengths and stumbling blocks. Additionally, you'll learn who delivers what kind and what amount of data to the database.
Level: Beginners/Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T9: Searching Italian patent documentation
Trainers: Guido Moradei and Lidia Casciano
Italian patent documentation is available through a variety of sources. Even for professional patent searchers, it can be confusing navigating through the information on Italian national patents and models and European patents designating Italy, or their legal status.
Recent developments to the Italian patenting and enforcement system, including the EPO search report have also led to some changes in the information available. Looking to the future, Italy's decision to sign the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court in Europe will have an impact on patent litigation in Italy and on the information available.
Information about national patents and models is also important considering that almost 95% of Italian companies are micro-enterprises (with fewer than ten employees), most of which generally file patents and utility models at a national level only.
The course therefore will provide an overview of the Italian patent system and national enforcement, and how to search the Italian patent information available in either national or international databases.
Level: Beginners/Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
Monday 21.10.2013 afternoon session
Trainers: Jutta Hausser, EPO, N.N.
The FI and F-terms classification systems were created by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) as a way of achieving more effective prior art searches and coping with emerging new technologies in Japan. This session will familiarise participants with the overall concept and philosophy of FI/F-terms. We will also discuss how FI might be partially integrate into CPC and vice versa. The practical hands-on part of the training session will illustrate different ways of identifying relevant FI symbols and F-terms. Participants will learn how to apply FI/F-terms effectively in their own searches.
Level: Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T4: Legal status products from the EPO
Trainer: to be confirmed
This course looks at various sources of legal status information available from the EPO products and services. You'll receive guidance on the use of the various products and learn to recognise some typical pitfalls. Examples will illustrate the use of the different EPO patent information sources. These include the European Patent Register, the EPO website, the European Publication Server and ESPACE Bulletin and LEGAL (DVD-ROM databases). Following this, you'll be asked to complete set tasks yourself with the help of the expert. By the end, you will be able to select and access the most appropriate resource according to the particular situation.
Level: Beginners/Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T6: Competitive intelligence from patent information - search reports and the Common Citation Document
Trainer: Nigel Clarke, EPO
Search reports appear relatively early in the patent procedure, generally before any definitive decisions have been made by the applicant or the patent office. However it's at this early stage that third parties need to fast-track what will happen to recently published patent applications. This seminar is all about the art of second-guessing. It's about what the search report means for you. It's about what happens after the search report and what you can expect to happen. It's about how to spot the simplest cases, and what happens after grant. It's about finding legal status. It's about what happens in more complicated cases and what the telltale signals are. Most of all it's about how to stay ahead of the game.
Level: Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T7: Search legal status with Global patent index
Trainer: Patrick Le Gonidec, EPO
Through the introduction of new search features in the EPO's worldwide legal status data collection, Global patent index (GPI) is now broadening its usability for patent experts. GPI offers a wide range of search capabilities in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic data collection via an easy-to-use user interface. In addition to practical exercises, the training will also emphasise future possible enhancements in the field of legal status; in this respect, participants' feedback will be welcome.
Level: Beginners/Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
Thursday, 24 October 2013 afternoon session
T8: PATSTAT online with worldwide legal status data
Trainers: Geert Boedt, Martin Kracker, EPO
This hands-on training course explores the possibilities offered by the online version of the EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) in combination with the EPO worldwide legal status database (INPADOC). PATSTAT and INPADOC for PATSTAT are raw data products which customers have to load onto their own database platform; but via PATSTAT online - part of the Patent Information for Experts Services platform (PISE) on the EPO website - they offer search, visualisation and download. We'll start with an introduction to SQL queries and teach you how to do proper data aggregation. We'll demonstrate and let you experiment with the PATSTAT on-line built-in patent indicators and we'll explain the various visualisation options. We'll then show you how to extract data subsets that can then be used to do further data analysis or visualisation with tools of your own choice.
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
T10: Two sides of the Espacenet coin
Trainers: Burkhard Schlechter, Austrian Patent Office and Nigel Clarke, EPO
Espacenet is one of the most widely used of the free patent information services, with millions of users every year. But how do the users actually use Espacenet and what for? What results can you expect using the different search masks? Are there any difficulties/pitfalls in searching? What do independent commentators say about Espacenet? And how does the Espacenet product team choose which functions and features to include? To answer these questions we'll be looking at both sides, and the edge, of the Espacenet coin.
Level: Intermediate
Price: EUR 50
Room: tbc
Location
The training courses will be conducted at the Palazzo della cultura e dei congressi in Bologna. The rooms where the individual courses will take place will be announced later. Please follow the signs posted at the venue.
Fees
There is room for 16 participants on each course. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
The course fees have been calculated to cover costs and are set at EUR 50 for each courses.
Contact
For more information on the training programme at the EPO Patent Information Conference 2013, please contact:
Patent Information Training
Tel. +43 (0)1 52126-138
E-mail: pitraining@epo.org