DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Freedom
to Operate Searching - Intellectual Property" conference has
been added to Research and Markets' offering.
A comprehensive one day seminar covering topics such as:
- Background and motivations to searching freedom-to-operate
- Understanding the background, defining terms and objectives
- Fundamentals of FTO search scope
- Methods for searching for claimed features
- Using basic legal status tools to assist evaluation
- Understanding and reporting the results from an FTO perspective
Agenda:
09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Background and motivations to freedom-to-operate searching; extent, timing, caveats
- Understanding the background to a search
- Terminology variation and search objectives
10.45 Refreshments
11.00 Fundamentals of FTO search scope
- In-force patents
- Other IP rights
- Pending applications
- Recently lapsed rights
- Expired rights
- Non-patent literature
- Analysing the search question; multiple aspects or features
- Understanding the results from an FTO perspective; multiple aspects or features
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Methods for searching for claimed features; full text and
text segments, extended classifications
Using basic legal
status tools to assist evaluation; finding amended claims
After the
subject search; verifying status of patents
15.45 Refreshments
16.00 Reporting aspects for an FTO search
17.00 Close of seminar
For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ztwhvm/freedom_to
