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Management Forum
Patentability Training Course
A comprehensive and practical seminar covering the key aspects of patentability searching
23-24 April 2024 »
from £499
- Format: Live online
Course Overview
This course is part of our collection of IP & Patents Training Courses.
Who should attend?
- All those working in IP or patent information or patent engineer roles either in industry or legal businesses, including:
- IP managers
- Patent research specialists and analysts
- Patent attorneys
- R&D scientists and engineers wanting to ensure they are not ‘re-inventing the wheel’
- Customer service and training representatives in the commercial information provider community who want to know more about what their customers do with patent data
- All those wanting to consolidate and enhance their skills in searching
The Patentability course will cover:
Introduction to searching from first principles
- Specific challenges of dealing with patent documents
Critical success factors in quality patent searching
- Data and data sources
- Search methodologies
- The human interface
Search preparation
- What the law expects
- What the searcher needs to know
- What the inventor/attorney needs to know
Standard search protocols
- Basic and improved strategies for retrieval
Alternative approaches
- Domain-specific tools
- Principles underlying advanced search strategies
Stephen Adams
Magister Ltd
Stephen Adams is Director of Magister Ltd, a patents documentation consultancy and training service. For a number of years, he worked as a technical information searcher in the field of food science at the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Following a period as editor of ‘International Packaging Abstracts’ at Pira International, he moved to ICI Agrochemicals (later Zeneca Agrochemicals) to become their principal patent searcher. He founded Magister Limited in 1997. Between 2002 and 2006, Stephen served as the first non-US ‘Director at Large’ for the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG Inc). In 2014, he was re-elected as Vice-Chair of the same organisation. In May 2008, he received a Special Recognition Award from the PIUG. He is also on the editorial board of ‘World Patent Information’, the international journal for industrial property documentation, information, classification and statistics. In 2012 Stephen was named as the IPI-Award recipient by the Selection Board of the International Patent Information Award for that year. He is the author of ‘Information Sources in Patents’, as well as numerous publications and articles.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
- 30% off the 2nd delegate*
- 40% off the 3rd delegate*
- 50% off the 4th delegate*
Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates
23-24 April 2024
Live online
13:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
14:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
08:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 13629
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 823 979
Until 19 Mar
- 2 sessions of live online training
- Browser-based, no download usually required
- See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price.
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