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Tuesday June 19, 2012
Patents 101: The Best of the Best Free Search Services
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific)
The PLL Intellectual Property Subgroup is proud to announce this Patents 101 webinar! Targeted to beginners in patent research, this presentation will discuss major free Web databases such as Esp@cenet, WIPO's Patentscope, the US full text databases at patft.uspto.gov, Japan's IPDL (Intellectual Property Digital Library) and its PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan) English interface. The presentation will cover 2 major alternative versions to the US databases, google.com/patents and Freepatentsonline.com. Sample searches will illustrate the strengths and disadvantages of each of these databases, including differing ease/difficulty of displaying and downloading, flexibility of searching, field searching, and options for proximity search in Freepatentsonline and Patentscope. Sources for assignment and legal status will be included, but this presentation will not be geared to legal issues beyond brief mention of Public PAIR, online image file wrappers, and INPADOC. Major emphasis will be on Boolean, field, citation and proximity search, and how those can greatly aid patent classification searching.
Speaker Bio:
Jim Miller, Reference Librarian at University of Maryland Engineering & Physical Sciences Library since 1980 (Senior Reference Librarian since 2000), is subject specialist for 7 engineering departments, Tech Reports, and Patents/Trademarks. He is the College Park Patent & Trademark Resource Center Representative, and was the 18th Patent & Trademark Depository Library Program Fellow at USPTO from June 2001 - June 2002. He is Treasurer of the Patent & Trademark Resource Center Association (PTRCA, formerly PTDLA), and is active in their discussion list. He has been a member of PIUG (Patent Information Users Group) since 2002.
Course Level: Beginner
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will understand the basics of searching for patent documents, including specialized classification systems.
Participants will become familiar with free search tools to find patent information, including patent documents themselves, translations of patent documents, and patent prosecution histories.
Cost: FREE
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