This course will teach you the essential skills for conducting a comprehensive 'state of the art' patent search.
Our expert trainer will guide you through selecting the right content, putting together and executing an effective search strategy, and analysing and reporting your findings.
While the focus is on patent searching, the course also explores when and how to incorporate other technical literature into your state of the art review, depending on your specific field.
A state of the art search must be broader than a typical patentability search. You will learn how to balance recall and precision, ensuring relevance for optimal results. The course emphasizes practical techniques, including the use of patent classifications, patent citations, and name searching, to build a robust collection for an initial state of the art review.
Given that the state of the art is always evolving, the course will also cover how to stay up to date by setting up effective technology patent monitoring processes. This will ensure you remain informed about the latest advancements in your field.
Benefits of attending
By attending this course, you will:
- Expand your knowledge of the importance of State of the Art searching
- Learn when to carry out the search and how to select the content
- Get to grips with search techniques and how to analyse your results
- Understand how to report your results
- Clarify techniques to stay up to date with State of the Art
Certifications:
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course Content
Content selection
- Patents, NPL
- Dates
- Countries
- Search
- Database selection
Search techniques
- Concept definitions, preparing the strategy, and recording
- IR theory
- Relevance
- Recall and precision
- Broadening your search statements
- Narrowing your search statements
- Classifications
- Citations
- Name searching
- For specific technical fields (chemistry, biotech, mechanical, devices, telecomms)
Analysing the results
- Clean up
- Categorisation/classification/bucketing
How to report your search results
- Family counting
- Identifying trends, pivotal patents, key players, and emerging opportunities
- Reporting styles
Maintain awareness of the state of the art
- Setting up alerts
- Reviewing and re-running the searches
- Dissemination of the results
References for further study
Course Provider
Ms Jane List,
Consultant ,
Extract Information LimitedJane 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.
Who Should Attend
This course is for all those working in IP or patent information or patent engineer roles, either in industry or legal businesses, and wanting to improve and / or update their search skills.
The course will be of particular interest to:
- IP managers
- Patent research specialists and analysts
- Technology transfer officers
- R&D 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
