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Essential Patent Search Techniques (19 Feb 2025)

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:00:00 GMT

Learn essential information and techniques to effectively search for patent information.

Understanding database coverage, content and structure
Balancing precision versus recall
Comparing search types including bibliographic, keyword, classification, citation, full-text and indexed content
Building comprehensive search statements using search operators and command language techniques including nesting, truncation, wildcards and stemming
Contrasting search features across free and commercial resources
Considering necessary steps for different search types: Patentability, Freedom to Operate and Validity
Practical search example applying these techniques

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Patsnap PIUG Silver Sponsor Webinar (28 Oct 2026)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

PIUG MONTHLY Calendar - October 28, 2026

Beyond Boolean: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Patent Search

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FREE Patsnap PIUG Silver Sponsor Webinar

Wednesday October 28th at 10 AM EDT

Live Event Open to the Public

PIUG Members Can Also Access the Recording After the Meeting

Patent search is moving fast, from matching keywords to understanding concepts to AI agents that plan, search, and refine. But the bigger shift is what happens next: search is becoming part of a connected innovation workflow.

Matthew Birch, European and UK Patent Attorney and Patsnap's AI Solutions Lead for IP, draws on 15+ years of prosecution and litigation experience to explore the evolution from Boolean to semantic to agentic search. He examines how AI trained on years of deep technical and legal data is bringing search and drafting together, with discoveries informing drafting decisions and patent strategy within a single platform. The session explores what this convergence means for patent information, IP strategy, and R&D, and how organizations can turn expanding AI capabilities into better-informed decisions, stronger patents, and new opportunities.

Biography

Matthew Birch is a European and UK Patent Attorney with more than 15 years of experience in IP. Before joining Patsnap, he worked at leading European and global firms, specializing in patent prosecution, opposition and litigation across medical devices, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. As AI Solutions Lead for IP at Patsnap, Matthew leads the product roadmap for the company's agentic patent drafting solutions, bringing a practitioner's perspective to how AI can support high-stakes patent work.

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Advanced Patent Search Strategies: What to Use When All Else Fails (17 Nov 2026)

Tue, 17 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Advanced Patent Search Strategies

What to Use When All Else Fails

PIUG MONTHLY Calendar - November 17, 2026

PIUG MONTHLY Calendar - November 19, 2026

Learn advanced search strategies to try when you’ve used the typical search methods and you want to make sure you did not miss something important. These strategies are also useful to help determine when a search is as near complete as possible, indicating that the searching may soon end. While the typical search methods including keywords, classification codes, citations and advanced systems will be briefly reviewed, the main focus will cover what to do after using these initial strategies.

View an introductory video from course instructor Ron Kaminecki

VIDEO

This two-part series presented by Ron Kaminecki covers multiple techniques including:

The Building Block Approach: categorizing concepts to modify a strategy
Successive Fractions: paring a search down by concepts
Recombination of Elements: narrowing piecemeal results to avoid duplicates
Terms of Art: identifying the most important terminology
Linking: extending the search to other database sources
Pearl Growing: expanding results starting with only a single result
Cherry Picking: using a few documents to locate more information
High-Precision Networking: Using minimal terms in a specially focused format to open up a search
Analogous Arts: using alternative sources to locate the information

Advanced Patent Search Strategies: What to Use When All Else Fails (19 Nov 2026)

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT