Freedom-to-Operate Searching Training Course: Get to Grips with the Fundamentals of FTO - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Freedom-to-Operate Searching Training Course" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This must-attend, value-rich event, led by an expert in the field, will answer all your queries and ensure you're working effectively and comprehensively to get the best results for your business or client.

To excel in your searching role you need to get to grips with the fundamentals of FTO, understand the scope of a search and analyse the types of rights you will encounter. Critically, you also need to understand how to interpret and evaluate the results from an FTO perspective. Are you up to date with the latest searching methods and technologies? Can you verify the status of patents and report your FTO search accurately?

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

Agenda

Background and motivations to freedom-to-operate searching

• Understanding the background to a search
• Extent and definitions
• Terminology variation and search objectives
• Types of infringement
• Clearance
• Duties of the searcher
• Timescales and scope

Fundamentals of FTO search scope

• Considerations for source selection
• Understanding terminology in the prior art
• Analysing the search question: multiple aspects or features
• Understanding the results from anFTOperspective and interpreting claims: multiple aspects or features

Methods for searching for claimed features; full text and text segments, extended classifications

• Stages of the search
• The subject matter
• Scope and sequence
• Source selection and searchable claims
• Full text and text segments searching techniques
• Extended classifications and navigating the hierarchy
• Limitation of results
• Using basic legal status tools to assist evaluation - finding amended claims
• After the subect search - verifying status of patents

Reporting aspects for an FTO search

• Form of the report
• What to report - content and scope
• How to report it
• Follow-up possibilities

Speakers:

Stephen Adams

Director

Magister Ltd

Stephen Adams is Director of Magister Ltd, a patents documentation consultancy and training service. He worked in technical information for over 20 years, latterly for nearly 9 years with Zeneca Agrochemicals (now Syngenta) as their principal patent searcher. He is Director-at-Large for PIUG Inc.

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