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Management Forum
Legal Patent Searching Training Course
An indepth look at the four types of patent search to help you build a successful IP portfolio.
13 December 2024
+ 30 January 2025, 26 June 2025, 20 October 2025 »
from £499
- Format: Live online
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course overview
This legal patent searching course provides methodology for patentability, opposition, invalidity and freedom to operate tasks, for successful IP practice.
Legal patent searching is a crucial step in the patenting process. It helps businesses make informed decisions to ensure their inventions are novel and eligible for patent protection. By using the searching methods to their full potential, a business can avoid infringement on existing patents and potential legal issues, and make strategic decisions about the best way forward.
The first half of this course focuses on aspects of search theory, the patenting process and patent information theory. This knowledge forms the basis for your search and patent analysis.
The second half of the course provides strategies for executing each type of search and gives guidelines on how to report your results for each type.
The expert trainer will give you insights into when and how to undertake the patent searches and how they can build into successful portfolio management. There will be ample time for you to ask your particular questions and gain insights from the trainer’s expert knowledge.
This course is part of our collection of IP & Patents Training Courses.
Benefits of attending
By attending this course you will:
- Learn about the different types of patent search
- Understand how these relate to building your IP portfolio
- Get to grips with search theory and the patenting process
- Master the strategies for executing each type of search
- Identify the best ways of reporting your results
Who should attend?
This course has been specially designed for all those working in IP or patent information, or patent engineer roles either in industry or legal businesses. It’s specifically for those wanting to improve and / or update their search knowledge and skills.
The course will be of particular interest to:
- IP managers
- Patent research specialists and analysts
- Patent information professionals
- Technology transfer officers
- R&D leads and technical product managers
- R&D scientists and engineers wanting to ensure they are not ‘re-inventing the wheel’
- Sales and support professionals of commercial information providers
This course will cover:
Patent terminology and the patenting process
- The patenting timeline and the legal search process
- Patent families, equivalents, and legal status
- The importance of dates
Patent terminology and the patenting process continued
- Understanding claims
- Prior art search tools
Search theory and search types for IP portfolio building
- Patentability, and other pre-filing searches
- Opposition search
- Freedom to operate search
Search theory and search types for IP portfolio building continued
- Freedom to operate search
- Monitoring cases
- Reporting your results
Course review and final questions
- Useful resources
Jane List
Extract Information Limited
Jane List founded Extract Information Limited, Cambridgeshire, UK, in 2013. Extract Information provides legal and industry focussed patent searching and reporting, IP management support for small companies, and product development consultancy for the information industry.
Jane previously worked in IP and Information analyst roles at The Technology Partnership (TTP) plc, Xaar plc and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. She also worked in the information industry where she held commercial, content, and product development roles at Lighthouse IP, ProQuest, and DataStar. Throughout her career she has provided training in the retrieval and analysis of scientific, technical, medical, commercial and patent information, most recently through CIIPM where she developed the courses in IP and Commercialisation. Jane has qualifications in Chemistry, Information Science, and IP Law.
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
13 December 2024
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14338
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 823 979
Until 08 Nov
- 1 day 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
30 January 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14339
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 823 979
Until 26 Dec
- 1 day 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
26 June 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14694
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 823 979
Until 22 May
- 1 day 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
20 October 2025
Live online
09:30-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-18:00 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-12:00 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14884
- GBP 499 599
- EUR 719 859
- USD 823 979
Until 15 Sep
- 1 day 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
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
* 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; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Run Legal Patent Searching Live online for your team
1 day
Typical duration
Pricing from:
- GBP 450
- Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
- Course tailored to your requirements
- At your choice of location, or online
We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.
Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:
