EPO offers online seminar
"Using EPO search tools to improve business decisions" [BS24-2021]
Apr. 13, 2021 9:00-10:30 ET | 15:00-16:30 CET
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Description
This seminar will show business decision-makers what can be done with the EPO’s free search tools, and what more advanced tools offer on top.
Target groups
- Business decision makers in SMEs or start-ups
- Professionals in the IP field
- Anyone interested in searching patent data effectively
Content
– Espacenet: daily updated database at no charge, containing data on more than 120 million patent documents from around the world
– Global Patent Index (GPI): tool enabling detailed searches in the EPO’s worldwide bibliographic, legal event and full-text data sets
– PATSTAT: databases enabling sophisticated statistical analyses of bibliographical and legal-event patent data from leading industrialised and developing countries
Presenters: Johannes Schaaf, Patrick Le Gonidec (EPO)
Agenda
15:00 CET/ (9:00 AM ED) Introduction
15:10 Use Espacenet to filter and analyse your search results
▪Identify technical areas based on key word searches
▪Analyse competitors and their filing behaviour
15:40 Make the best out of Global patent index
▪Detailed searches combining bibliographic data, legal events and full text
▪Regular monitoring of technical areas and competitors, with preliminary data quality assessments
▪Customised display and download for improved user experience and effective use of result sets
16:10 Use PATSTAT for more advanced statistics on
▪Citation flows
▪Legal event data
16:20 Conclusions
https://www.epo.org/learning/training/details.html?eventid=13989
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Update 4/12/2021 10:09 Information on registration deadline has been removed
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