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Online Patent & Patent Information Seminars
Patent Office Trainings - E-Learning, Online Training Opportunities & Seminars
| Date | Location | Host | Description | |
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| 6-7 September 2010 | Vienna, Austria | EPO | Asian patent systems and free databases Common aspects and differences in the European and Asian patent systems (granting procedures, time limits, opposition and invalidation procedures, deferred and accelerated examination, the extension of patent terms); Basic features of free Asian databases; Advanced features of free Asian databases (legal status, payment of annual fees, the electronic file, additional text data, use the Japanese, Chinese or Korean interfaces to minimise possible gaps in coverage) |
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| 8 Sep. 2010 | Vienna, Austria | EPO | Understanding the world's major patent classification schemes Brief history of the development of classification schemes at the EPO, USPTO and JPO; Basics of IPC, ECLA, USPC, FI, F-terms; Revision & Reclassification; Search examples |
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| Sept. 20, 2010 | Vienna, Austria | EPO | 16th EPO Patent Information Beginners Seminar (EPIBS) (programme) (PI06-2010) | |
| Sept. 20-24, 2010 | New York, NY | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review Course | |
| Sep. 21, 2010 | Cambridge, MA | STN | STN Patent Forum (Registration) From the program: What's New?(Prophetic substances in CA, Custom IPC display formats, Enhancements for DGENE, INPADOCDB, USGENE, and WPIX); The Secret Life of CAS REGISTRY (Locator Field, Inventory Field, Polymer Class Terms, Properties, Source of registration, Substance Class Identifiers, Types of names); Legal Status and Patent Profiles; Approaches for Analysis of Patent Data on STN (STN AnaVist, STN Viewer, and STN Express, Version 8.4); The Hitchhikers Guide to Full-Text |
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| Sep. 21, 2010 | King of Prussia, PA | STN | Advanced Structure Searching Techniques in CAS REGISTRY (Registration) Include: Current Awareness Searches in Patent Databases |
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| Sep. 22, 2010 (AM) | King of Prussia, PA | STN | Ask the Specialist (Registration) | |
| Sep. 22, 2010 (PM) | King of Prussia, PA | STN | Markush Searching in the Patent Literature (Registration) | |
| Sep. 23, 2010 | King of Prussia, PA | STN | STN User Update (Registration) Including: Current Awareness Searches in Patent Databases and Property Data in CAS REGISTRY |
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| Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010 | Palm Springs, CA | Patent Resources Group | Art and Science of Patent Searching (syllabus) | |
| Sept. 30-Oct. 5, 2010 | Palm Springs, CA | Patent Resources Group | Advanced Courses Program | |
| Oct.6, 2010 | Washington, DC | STN | STN User Update (Registration) Including: Current Awareness Searches in Patent Databases |
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| Oct.7, 2010 | Frankfurt, Germany | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Oct. 11, 2010 | New Brunswick, NJ | STN | STN Patent Forum (Registration) From the program: What's New: Enhancements to CAS & biomedical databases; DWPI, INPAFAMDB/INPADOCDB and full-text patent databases; DGENE, USGENE, and PCTGEN; (IPCs) added to INSPEC; Legal Status and Patent Profiles; The many faces of INPAFAMDB on STN; The Secret Life of CAS REGISTRY & Approaches for Analysis of Patent Data on STN (see above at 9/23/2010), etc. |
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| Oct. 13, 2010 (AM) | New Brunswick, NJ | Questel | "ORBIT.COM 1.3 – Questel’s enhanced IP Portal!" (Registration) (Miguel Iglesias, Questel) |
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| Oct. 13, 2010 (PM) | New Brunswick, NJ | Questel | Merged Markush Service (MMS) Basic Training Workshop (Registration) (Joe Terlizzi, Questel) |
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| Oct. 13, 2010 (PM) | New Brunswick, NJ | STN | Effective Sequence Searching on STN (Registration) (Jim Brown, FIZ Karlsruhe) |
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| Oct. 14-15, 2010 | New Brunswick, NJ | PIUG | PIUG "Patent Information Fundamentals" Course This course is offered the first time by PIUG "is an expanded version of the well known PERI Patent Information Course, which has been offered since 1989. It provides an overview of the patenting process, sources of patent information and the various means of answering patent information requests pertaining to chemical, electrical and mechanical technologies. The basics of U.S. and foreign patent laws, patent search techniques and resources, and the importance of exclusivity and patent term extension will be discussed". Faculty: Edlyn Simmons, Simmons Patent Information Service, LLC; Richard Elder, Esq., Schering-Plough Corp.; Ric Henschel, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLC; Sara Davis, GlaxoSmithKline; Judy Johnson Philipsen, Philipsen Chemical Patent Search, LLC; Anthony Arleth, Pennside Partners Limited; Dominic Demarco, DeMarco IP; Anthony Trippe, 3LP Advisors |
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| Nov. 1-Dec. 3, 2010 |
Netherlands, Voorburg (The Hague) | GO opleidingen |
Patent Information Specialist training and refresher courses Refresher courses Patent documents and their accessibility (November 1-2 and 15) Patent legal aspects and patent legislation (November 3, 8 and 15) Searching the internet: web search strategies (November 9) Patent classification (November 16-17) Free text searching and citation searching (November 18) Retrieval and distribution of patent literature (November 10 and 22-24) Approaches for several kinds of patent searches (November 29-30 and December 1-2) Analytical tools (December 3) |
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| Oct. 26, 2010 | Burlington, MA | STN | Markush Searching in the Patent Literature (Registration) | |
| Oct. 27, 2010 (AM) | Burlington, MA | STN | Comprehensive Structure Searching in REGISTRY and MARPAT (Registration) | |
| Oct. 27, 2010 (PM) | Burlington, MA | STN | Advanced Aspects of MARPAT (Registration) | |
| Oct. 28, 2010 | Burlington, MA | STN | STN User Update (Registration) Including: Unmasking the World of Antibodies on STN; CAS Roles as Search Tools in CAplus |
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| Nov. 9, 2010 | Philadelphia, PA | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Nov. 10, 2010 | Boston, MA | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Nov. 11, 2010 | Vienna, Austria | EPO | 4th EPO Patent Information Advanced Seminar (EPIAS) (programme) (PI08-2010) | |
| Nov. 12, 2010 | Chicago, IL | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Nov. 15, 2010 | Los Angeles, CA | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Nov. 15-19, 2010 | Washington, DC or Southfield, MI | Patent Resources Group | IP Courses for Business Professionals | |
| Nov. 16, 2010 | San Francisco, CA | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| Nov. 17, 2010 | Seattle, WA | Dialog | Dialog Forum 2010 (Registration) | |
| July 12-15, 2011 | Alexandria, VA | Patent Resources Group | The Patent Workshop: Fundamental Best Practices for Patent Prosecution for 2011 | |
| July 26-29, 2011 | Newport Beach, CA | Patent Resources Group | The Patent Workshop: Fundamental Best Practices for Patent Prosecution for 2011 | |
| Aug. 16-25, 2011 | Alexandria, VA Southfield, MI |
Patent Resources Group | August Advanced Courses Program | |
| Sept. 12-16, 2011 | Newport Beach, CA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| Sept. 21-Oct. 13 2011 |
Netherlands, Voorburg (The Hague) | GO opleidingen | Patent Information Specialist training and refresher courses Refresher courses Patent documents and their accessibility (September 12-13 and 26) Patent legal aspects and patent legislation (November 14, 19 and 26) Searching the internet: web search strategies (September 20) Patent classification (November 16-17) Free text searching and citation searching (September 29) Retrieval and distribution of patent literature (September 21, October 3-5) Approaches for several kinds of patent searches (October 10-13) |
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| Oct. 7-9, 2011 | Las Vegas, NV | Patent Resources Group | October Advanced Courses Program | |
| Nov. 7-11, 2011 | New York, NY | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| Dec. 5-9, 2011 | Dallas, TX | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| Jan. 23-27, 2012 | Newport Beach, CA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| March 12-16, 2012 | Alexandria, VA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| May 7-11, 2012 | Chicago, IL | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| March 25-31, 2012 | Bonita Springs, FL | Patent Resources Group | Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program | |
| June 18-22, 2012 | Boston, MA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| July 17-20, 2012 | Alexandria, VA | Patent Resources Group | Winning Patents Workshop | |
| July 31-August 3, 2012 | Newport Beach, CA | Patent Resources Group | Winning Patents Workshop | |
| August 13-15, 2012 | Alexandria, VA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Administration: A Foundation for Success | |
| September 10-12, 2012 | New York, NY | Patent Resources Group | Patent Administration: A Foundation for Success | |
| September 10-14, 2012 | New York, NY | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review | |
| November 5-9, 2012 | San Francisco, CA | Patent Resources Group | Patent Bar Review |
Notes: This page includes half-day, one-day training workshops and multiday training events related to patent research. Events listed here are located mostly in USA. For European patent related events see information on the EPO web-site
Registration for Workshops sponsored by STN, Dialog, Questel are normally free and open for subscribers and non-subscribers. For current information see their web-sites:
Many the listed above and other companies sponsor pre- and post-conference workshops at PIUG, AIIP, SLA conferences. Please check the respective conference program.
Comments (2)
May 21, 2010
Monica L Weiss-Nolen says:
Hi Edlyn, I was going to refer someone to the PERI course in June, but when I w...Hi Edlyn,
I was going to refer someone to the PERI course in June, but when I went to the link provided, it wasn't listed- was it cancelled?
Monica
May 21, 2010
Edlyn Simmons says:
Unfortunately, PERI did not receive enough registrations to cover the cost of th...Unfortunately, PERI did not receive enough registrations to cover the cost of the course. They cancelled the June offering without rescheduling it.
The faculty and the PIUG Board are hoping to reschedule the course under PIUG’s auspices, and PERI seems to be willing to transition the course to us. We’ll have more information after we’ve worked out the details.
Edlyn