Core Patent Search Skills:
This half day training covers the core essential skills needed for successful patent searching. Join us to learn some essential subject search skills, find out about patent families, and how to approach company name and inventor name searches. We teach the background and theory of how to use the IPC and CPC patent classification systems, and how to use forward and backward patent citations to broaden and narrow your search results. Bring along your laptop to participate in two practical sessions where you will have access to professional patent search databases to practice your skills.
The course is aimed at those with less than two years patent searching, those who only search patents occasionally and/ or who want to their knowledge of patent information and update search skills.
Freedom to Operate Search & Analysis:
Companies, large and small, all need to take care to ensure that, as far as possible, their potential product, or process, will not infringe any existing products or patents. In this training we will review how to prepare for FTO searching, how to stage FTO according to the product development stage and what you can do when your budget is limited. How to perform a limited ‘FTO’ on a small budget to minimize risks, and how to perform a full ‘clearance’. The training will also cover how to analyse the results, and how to report your findings.
Who should attend?
Anyone who wants to learn more about managing innovation practices and the commercialisation of technologies in relation to IP.
Cost: £150 (EarlyBird) - £225 +VAT per half-day which includes lunch and refreshments.
Discount if both sessions booked.
Book through Eventbrite. Courses are sponsored by the UK IPO, CAS / STN, RWS IP Services and Gridlogics.
