Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

Summary: 6/28 McCarter & English, LLP/UConn TCS . Patent Law [Basics]@11 AM ET; 6/29 WIPO Global Design Database@11:30 AM ET; 6/30  Elsevier: Reaxys Patent Expansion (Part 2) @2AM ET; Derwent Innovation: How to think like a professional patent searcher@10 AM ET; WIPO: Global Brand[TM] Database@11:30 AM ET; Minesoft: FTO Searching@12 PM ET; Relativity: Patent Landscape Analysis @12 PM ET; 7/1 IPlytics: Determining Essentiality for Standard Essential Patents @12 PM ET

The following online patent information and related events are offered Mon-Thu..June 28- July 1, 2021:

Monday, June 28, 2021
11:00 AM -12:00 PM ET | 5:00 - 6:00 PM CET
McCarter & English, LLP/UConn. Patent Law [Basics]   (Registration)
In this webinar a patent attorney  David Silvia (McCarter & English, LLP) will discuss patent law basics, including the standards for determining patentability, i.e., utility, novelty and non-obviousness, and how those standards impact patent filing strategies, both domestically and internationally. [This webinar is the last  part of the UConn TCS Summer Seminar Series: Patents, Licensing, and how the Law Shapes the Process, June 2021]

Additional info:
Related recorded webinars:
1. Fish & Richardson P.C. (Atlanta, GA, etc.) The Basics of Patents. Recorded March 25, 2021. (video, 1:03:45, slides, 50 p.) In this webinar, Fish attorneys Indranil Sarkar and Sushil Iyer provide an overview of patents and the US patent system. Topics that were addressed include: What is a patent, and what rights does a patent provide? What can be patented? What are the types of US patent applications? What is the structure of a US patent application? What is the process for obtaining a patent in the US? What is the term of a US patent? Who owns an innovation?
2. Dehns Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys (London) An introduction to IP - The basics of the patent system. Recorded June 11, 2020 (video, 58 min) Hosted by Philip Webber, qualified UK and European patent attorney , this webinar covers patent claims, criteria for patentability and how to get patents granted.

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
11:30 AM  - 12:15 PM ET | 5:30  - 6:15 PM CET
WIPO: Global Design Database: how to read, save and share your results (Recording, 16 min)
Presenter: Sandrine Ammann , Marketing & Communications Officer, WIPO
Available materials of previous webinars on WIPO Global Design Database: An overview (slides, 58 p. Jan. 27, 2021; recording, 18:25, Dec.15, 2020); How to Search (slides: Mar. 11, 2021, 47 p. & July 30, 2019, 66 p.); Practical cases (slides, 76 p., Jan. 11, 2021); How to Read, Save and Share Your Results  (recording, 18:13, Oct. 29, 2020)


Wednesday, June 30, 2021
2:00 -3:00 AM ET | 8:00-9:00 CET | 11:30 AM- 12:30 PM IST
Elsevier: Reaxys Patent Expansion: Uncovering chemical compounds hidden in patents (Registration)
This is our second webinar in continuation to share more insights on patent content expansion in Reaxys….In this segment we will be sharing more insights on finding the chemical compound information hidden in patents directly from our speakers where Mr Honmute will be sharing his knowledge & experience on the challenges & importance of patent data in chemistry research and Dr Rane will showcase how this data can be easily discoverable in Reaxys with the new patent content coverage expansion.
See related publications/presentation of Elsevier authors/collaborators:
High quality critical information from Patents with Reaxys (Dr Mandar Bodas, Elsevier, Jun 7 2021 | 67 mins)  [Reaxys will offer broader bibliographic coverage often yields more comprehensive results for keyword searches on newly published patents in 2021 and across all patents in the backlog range as it is indexed through Q2-Q3.]
Reaxys Patent Expansion 2021: An improved Competitive Intelligence (May 25 2021 | 47 mins, Jen Teske, Solution Sales Manager and Robert Niebergall, Customer Consultant, Elsevier)
Elsevier. Chemical content from … patents
Elsevier. How data scientists are uncovering chemical compounds hidden in patents (By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten, Nov. 28, 2019)
Using machine learning to extract chemical information from patents (webinar, Oct. 7, 2020, 56 m, Saber Akhondi, Principle NLP Scientist, Elsevier) (see additional info and refs, at Oct. 4, 2020 PIUG-PF post)

10:00-11:00 AM ET | 6:00-7:00 PM CET
Clarivate [Derwent Innovation] How to think like a professional patent searcher (Registration)
You may never need to perform dozens of patentability and freedom to operate searches yearly, but after this session, you’ll have key insights learned from the experience of a former professional searcher that will enable you to find relevant references quickly and efficiently. In this session, you will learn how to deconstruct a search topic into concepts, how to develop keyword and classification strategies for each concept for maximum comprehensiveness, and how to combine those strategies for maximum relevancy.

11:30 AM ET - 12:15 PM ET | 5:30  - 6:15 PM CET
WIPO: Overview of the Global Brand Database [Trademarks]   (Registration)
Presenter: Sandrine Ammann , Marketing & Communications Officer, WIPO
Available materials of previous webinars on WIPO Global Brand Database: An overview (slides, 76 p. Jan. 25, 2021); How to perform searches  (slides, 52 p. Mar. 4, 2021); Image Search (slides, 57 p. Apr. 27, 2021);  Practical cases (slides, 62 p. Nov. 19, 2020); How to Read, Save and Share Your Results  (recording, 24:23, Jun. 23, 2021)


12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 6:00 -7:00 PM CET
Minesoft: Patent searching from conception to market: FTO searching (Recording, 56:08, "Design for patentability")
In the next installment of Minesoft’s Strategic IP Webinar series, we will be joined again by Al Etheridge – founder of Atlanta Patent Services. Al will be continuing his top tips for patent searching from conception to market, this time focusing on FTO searches.
See also:
Minesoft. FTO Case Study. Presented at PIUG Biotech Conference, 16-20 February 2015, 42 p.
See information about Al Etheridge in Apr.14, 2021 PIUG-PF post.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 6:00 -7:00 PM CET
Relativity: Patent Landscape Analysis: Practical Strategies for Any Budget  (Registration)
… Whether you’re a solo IP practitioner at a growing start-up, or part well-funded team at a major global corporation, you need to know the landscape for your own intellectual property and your competitors. How do you know where to look? How do you balance your time between proactive and defensive strategies? How do you add value when this work may not be billable, but is still strategically vital? And finally, how can technology help you, without breaking the bank?
In this webinar, we’ll discuss practical landscape strategies for outside counsel and in-house counsel, including creative ways to amplify your efforts. We’ll cover:

• Think like a troll—what public information can be used against you and your clients? How does it read against existing patents?
• How to organise your efforts
• How to fit in this important work when time- or budget-constrained
• How to evolve your approach as you and your clients grow—from start-up to global corporation
• How do you manage a portfolio, think about acquisition and licensing, and protective purchases?

 Speakers, Robert Lopes, VP, Patent Engineering, Comcast; Evan McAlpine, Senior IP Counsel, Relativity,  and Ryan Hynes, Attorney, Architect, and Co-Creator, Relativity Patents, Relativity
Additional Info:
IPWatchdog/Relativity webinar: Creating a Patent Landscape Game Plan: Identifying Strategic Threats and Potential Incoming Litigation (Recorded May 19, 2021, video  63 min, slides 10 p.)
Relativity Patents for Law Firms (@ the company website);
Apr. 14, 2021 PIUG-PF post

Thursday, July 1, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | 6:00 -7:30 PM CET
IPlytics/IPWatchdog Webinar: Determining Essentiality for Standard Essential Patents: Challenges, Benefits & Solutions (Registration)
One of the major challenges when licensing, transacting, or managing SEPs is that there is no public database that provides information about verified Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). Standard-setting organizations (“SSOs”) such as ETSI (4G / 5G), IEEE (Wi-Fi), or ITUT (HEVC/VVC) maintain databases of so-called self-declared patents to document the FRAND obligation. However, the SSOs do not determine whether any of the declared patents are essential, nor are the declarants required to provide any proof or updates. As a result, in course of licensing negotiations, patent acquisitions, or litigation, the question about which patents are essential and which are not, is one of the most debated when negotiating SEP portfolio value, royalties, or infringement claims. AI solutions support the process of understanding how patent claims relate to standards to assess larger SEP portfolios without spending weeks and months and significant dollars on manual reviews by technical experts and counsel.
Spearkers: Gene Quinn, President & CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc., Mang Zhu, Chief IP Strategy Officer at ZTE, David Yurkerwich, Senior Managing Director at Ankura, David Barkan, Litigation Principal at Fish & Richardson, Daniel Weinger, a Member at Mintz, and Tim Pohlmann, CEO of IPlytics.
See also:
IPlytics Best-in-Class Webinar Series Part 1 Unpacking 5G SEPs and standards contributions  (Presenation & copy of recordings, May 18, 2021) [Clear and comprehensive introduction into methodology developed by IPlytics for analysis of essentiality of patents declared SEP on an example of 5G technology]

Other upcoming events:
7/7/2021 10:00 – 11:30 AM ET WIPO PATENTSCOPE Summer Course -Session 1
7/8/2021 11:00 AM ET Pharma IQ Patent Scope Visualization - A Patent Mining and Visualization Platform for Antibody Claims
7/8/2021 1:00 PM ET SLW Digital Transformation Case Study: Due Diligence, Freedom to Operate Studies, Landscape Studies, Portfolio Curation, Portfolio Analytics, Landscape Analytics
7/13/2021 10:00 ET WIPO PATENTSCOPE Overview (and 7/15/2021  8:30 AM CET)
7/14/2021 10:00 ET WIPR/Minesoft: Would a [patent] citation by any other name still smell as sweet?
7/21/2021 10:00 – 11:30 AM ET WIPO PATENTSCOPE Summer Course -Session 2