Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

The following online patent information and related events are offered Tue-Thu..July 20-22, 2021. See also below information about other upcoming training events (July 27-Aug 5. 2021), conferences, patent search courses, and selected recent publications of interest

Tuesday, July 20, 2021
5:00-6:00am ET | 11:00 am -12:00 pm CET
Clarivate: 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

11:00am – 12:00 pm ET | 5:00  – 6:00pm CET
Clarivate: Insights into the AI hardware patent landscape (Registration)
In this webinar, Clarivate patent analysts Arun Hill and Aditi Varshney will be joined by Morgan Lewis patent attorney and AI hardware specialist Kannan Narayanan. Together, they will unpack their recent AI hardware patent landscape analysis. The panellists will discuss critical questions about the current AI hardware trends and technology improvements, the art and strategy of patent landscape analysis, and how any company can incorporate patent landscape analysis into their innovation strategy.
In this session we will cover:
Major AI hardware landscape analysis findings and methodology using Derwent Innovation’s advanced analytics capabilities
Strategies for incorporating patent landscape findings into your innovation program
Improvements in conventional hardware, specialized chips and circuits, and other technologies including neuromorphic architectures, memory-based analog acceleration, and optical computing.
Highlights of the 7/20/2021 presentation: 25% of patents owned by academic and university entities (2 time higher global benchmark, indication ongoing fundamental research; majority research originate from CN and US with former growing at higher pace; US offer highest grant rate with a shortest pendency; Technical dynamic modeling of core AI hardware entities: a packed competitive landscape, high influx of entities (see an attached screenshot); Application-focused AI hardware entities; Technology landscape: development pathway of hardware accelerators, optical computing, improvement to Graphical processing units (GPU), Tensor and Neural processing units (TPU and NPU); Future AI Applications: Autonomous Vehicle and Healthcare Applications. .A white paper is planned. (ab)
See also:
Clarivate Patent Analytics solutions: Patent landscapes (Technical review, Opportunity identification, Competitive review and benchmarking, Risk factor assessment)
Clarivate Patent Analytics reports: Inmuno-Oncology (webinar,52 min & presentation, 35 p., Bob Stembridge, May 2018) Graphene IP Landscape Report (2018), 5G Global Patent Landscape (.webinar 30 min., slides, 9 p. July.24, 2019, Ed White); Blockchain (webinar, 60 min, slides, 31 p., May 2019, Ed White with Nigel Clarke, EPO); Cloud Game industry (2020)

 
Wednesday, July 21 2021
10:00 -11:30 AM ET | 4:00 -5:30 PM CET
WIPO PATENTSCOPE Summer Course -Session 2 (Presentation, 111 p.)
Presenter: Sandrine Ammann , Marketing & Communications Officer, WIPO
This is the second of four sessions of PATENTSCOPE Summer Course. The session include a short introduction and multiple questions to students to be answered during the session. The correct answers are then presented and discussed. The session is for use of  stemming, wildcards and fuzzy searches (also WIPO PEARL and CLIR). The first session was held July 7, 2021 and related to Search fields, operators and nesting (see a presentation of the Session 1) . See information on Session 3 and in forthcoming events  section below.  Questions presented during PATENTSCOPE Summer Course questions is planned to integrate to Patentscope learning platform in September 2021.
See also:
Patentscope  Help: National Collections - Query Syntax (with additional info in Lucene Standard Query Parser documentation and on The Porter stemming algorithm)
Patentscope User Guide, March 2021, 66 p., Annex: Search Syntax, p.65-66
WIPO PEARL (a linguistic search: terms translated in different languages could be search directly in Patentscope, PEARL full record inludes a definition from patents and  a links to a concept map, see, for example, ski binding)
CLIR (Cross Lingual Expansion) (Note: a term expansion in a supervised mode would add IPC classes to a Patentscope search strategy, as ICF (main IPC class), for example ICF:(A63 OR F41B) for “ski binding”)
Wildcard vs Stemming  comparison tool.

 
Thursday, July 22 2021
9:00 -10:00 AM ET | 3:00 -4:00 PM CET and 2:00 -3:00 PM ET | 9:00 Thursday, July 22 2021 (Recording, 65 min & presentation, 49 p.),
STN International: Using the Derwent Manual Codes on STNext®
Presenters: Jim Brown, FIZ Karlsruhe Inc. and Andrew Klein, Clarivate
The Derwent Manual Codes are a powerful tool to be used for subject searching in the Derwent World Patents Index database. These codes are intellectually applied by the Derwent subject specialists, and cover the main inventive feature of the invention, as well as significant applications of the invention. This e-Seminar will explain the hierarchical structure of the Derwent Manual Code system, and will include examples on how to find and search the appropriate codes(s) for a particular search strategy. This e-Seminar is geared to searchers of all experience levels, from the novice to the most sophisticated of searchers.
See an additional info in Footnotes below, Note 1

11:00-11:30 AM ET
Sagacious IP [Oveview of Methodology of a Patent Licensing Study] (Recording, 34 min)
In webinar titled “Patent Licensing Strategies in Life Sciences” held July, 21, 2021, Devika Saini, Manager – LSC, Sagacious IP, provided detailed overview of methodology of a patent licensing studies, used by the company to address clients  questions on potential licensees and commercialization prospects; competition and market standing, IP valuation and market benchmarking of technology, etc.. Such studies include the following steps (see attached Slide 8): I. Patent Portfolio Analysis (scoring) (Slide 9); II. Market and Technology Evaluation: (1) Market size (Baseline, CAGR¹), market share and annual turnover generated by the technology (Slide11) (2) Evidence of use (identifying potentially infringement patents)(slide 12), (3)Alternative technologies (alternative products & competitors, relevant competitors IP, buyers) (Slide 13) (4)Competitors (leading and emerging players) (Slide 14); III.[Own] Patent Portfolio Validation ('competing prior art likely [relates to] product competitors or potential licensees') (Slide 16) ; IV. Portfolio Valuation (Market/Cost/Hybrid approaches). One of case studies discusses preparation of a report to a client for development effective licensing strategy (selection the most profitable patents for a target technology, ranking competitors with similar technologies and determining their potential as prospected licensees) (Slide 18).
See also related Sagacious IP articles and presentations:
Sagacious IP.How To Adopt An Intelligent Approach to Patent Valuation, May 24, 2021 (see market valuation factiors)
Agarwal, H., Sagacious IP Editorial Team, Technology Evaluation Reports: Who Needs it and Why? .Sagacious IP. Aug. 25, 2020
Sagacious IP. Evidence of Use (EoU)/ Claim Chart (Download methodology tab)
Sagacious IP,. F3 Analysis. . June 1, 2020;
 Sagacious IP, F3 Analysis of Patent Portfolios: A Solution for Strategic Optimization. (webinar transcript with slides),  2020
Sagacious IP. Monetizing Patents: Selling vs. Licensing, Core vs Non-Core. Sagacious. (webinar transcript with slides),  2020
 Sagacious IP, Patent Portfolio Pruning: Realizing Immediate Cost Savings. (webinar transcript with slides),  2020
¹ CAGR compound annual growth rate
 

7:00 – 8:00 PM ET | 3:00 - 4:00 AM CET (July 23, 2021)
Bay Area CHIZAI (IP): The Current State of Strategic Patent Buying and the Patent Market / SPIF
(1)The Current State of Strategic Patent Buying and the Patent Market (Kent Richardson, Richardson Oliver Law Group)
Why do companies buy patents? How do they justify their purchases (and sales)? Who are these companies, what do they buy, and what happens after a purchase? Kent Richardson will be presenting on the strategic rationale for buying, the return-on-investment model that operating companies use to justify purchases, and the current state of the patent market.
You will learn how companies build their return-on-investment models, what kinds of patents they buy, and the prices they typically pay.
Refs.
Richardson, K., Oliver, E., 2019. When Strategies Collide: Freedom to Operate vs. Freedom of Action in Converging Industries . IPWatchdog.com Blog, March 7, 2019 (Explains that for high-tech industries, in contrast to life sciences,  comprehensive FTO analysis is unfeasible, and "Freedom of Action" IP strategy is used to mitigate risk of infringement litigation)
(2) SPIF – A Simple Solution to Standardized Patent Identification (Erik Oliver, Richardson Oliver Law Group)
Whether it is licensing, buying, selling, transferring prosecution, or performing research, our industry still struggles with efficiently matching lists of patents from different data sources. For example, if you send a third party a list of 1000 patents, how often is it that they will only be able to match 950 of the patents on the list? Using existing standards, SPIF is a new, open, free, standard, non-partisan, and human readable format for solving this problem. Erik Oliver will be discussing the SPIF solution and how it can help you and how you can become involved.
Additional info in SPIF:
SPIF Patent Identification Information. Simple, free, human-readable. A standard format for patents, https://www.spif.group/
SPIF - Patent Identification Format. A Modest Proposal to Bring Sanity to Basic Patent Identification Information. Version: 0.1.1. Joint Development Foundation Projects, LLC. Jan. 29, 2021. 18 p. (http://static.spif.group/spif-spec-0.1.1.pdf) [Include specifications for IP5, note for KR AN and PN numbers, SPIF follows KIPO native formats]
Gallagher, Jennifer M . SPIF Launch Presentation, Mar. 23, 2021, 16 p.  © Richard Oliver, Insight LLC (Two attached slides from the presentation illustrate patent list problems and proposed SPIF format)
SPIF Patent data converter (powered by Cipher) (free, limited for 100 patent numbers)
Cipher SPIF Press release [[SPIF – launching Standard Patent Identification]. 2021
Cipher, n.d. SPIF Export Report (see an attached screenshot with a sample a report for Cipher customers)
Wild, Joff (IAM Editor-of-chief). Another brick in the wall towards patents becoming fully-fledged assets, 18 Mar 2021
Brachmann, Steve. SPIF Standard Launched to Help Reliably Identify Patent Assets in M&A and Other Transactions. IPWatchdog.com Blog, March 31, 2021

Other upcoming events (July 27 -August 5, 2021) (Updated)

7/27/2021 11:30 AM ET WIPO. Global Design Database: practical cases
7/28/2021 11:00 AM ET Lens Demonstration of the tools and features available on lens.org (Lens Patent 2.0) (also Aug.4 & 11,2021) (also for Asia & Oceania  7/28,8/4 & 8/11 @6:00 PM PST)
7/28/2021 10:00 AM ET LexisIP Using Patent Analytics to Identify Innovation Growth Areas:  A deep-dive analysis of innovation in the air taxi space
7/29/2021 11:30 AM ET WIPO. Global Brand Database: practical cases
7/29/2021 12:00 PM ET RWS/IPWatchdog Best Practices for Avoiding Patent Searching Pitfalls
7/29/2021 1:00 PM ET USPTO The Path to a Patent, Part III: Patent searching
7/29/2021 3:00 PM ET USPTO Patent and Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs)
8/3/2021 USPTO Trademark Basics Boot Camp, Module 1: Fundamentals
8/4/2021 4:00 AM ET Clarivate  Research Patent in a Specific Domain (Derwent Innovation)
8/4/2021 12:00 PM ET ML4Patents.com Webinar Series with Relativity Patents (Episode 1)
8/5/2021 9:00 AM ET PatSeer “How to reduce risks of R&D and how to find new ideas using PatSeer”
8/5/2021 1:00 PM ET USPTO The Path to a Patent, Part IV: Learn how to draft a patent application

Upcoming conferences of interest:
(New!) ACS Fall 2021 Meeting, Aug. 22-26, 2020 (Atlanta, GA & Online) (Technical Program, see CHAL patent law symposia (8/22-23); CINF Symposia: Chemistry Babylon (8/22); Natural products and food informatics (8/23); Reactions Informatics (8/22), ML & AI for Organic Chemistry (8/22), ML in drug discovery (8/24), etc.)
PATINEX 17^th Patent Information Expo, 6^th–10^th September 2021 (Korea, KIPI, online)
AI-SDV 2021, The Artificial Intelligence Conference on Search, Data and Text Mining, Analytics and Visualization. 3-5 October 2021, Nice, France & virtually. Preliminary Program
EPO Search Matters 2021, 6-8 October 2021 (Online, save the date)
Japan Patent Information fair & Conference 2021,  Nov. 23-24, 2021 (pending)
IP Service Word, Convention & Trade Fair, Nov. 23-24, 2021, Munich, Germany (see Agenda, incl. lectures on patent searching, etc.)


(New!) Patent searching courses:
SWAYAM [Ministry of Education Government of India], Patent Search for Engineers and Lawyers
Instructors: Prof. M. Padmavati, Prof. Shreya Matilal, IIT Kharagpur (Preview, 4 min)
Start Date : 23 Aug 2021, End Date : 15 Oct 2021 (8 weeks);  Free for audit (w/o exam)
Enrollment Ends : 23 Aug 2021. Registration link (need to open  a free SWAYAM account)
Course layout (8 weeks, abbreviated, see Syllabus (2021)): Inventions and Patent Eligibility; How to read a patent document - Patent Anatomy; Public search databases IPO EPO USPTO Patent Scope; Types of Patent search (3 weeks); nalysis of Patent Search with illustration; Patent landscape analysis
Books & References: 1. Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques by David Hunt, 2007; 2. Patent Search Work Book – Created by the course proposer.
See also materials of 2019 course: Videos (40 lectures), Assignments, Transcripts (see an additional annotation on a PIUG wiki page, Mar.7, 2020 with links to particular lectures on Youtube)

WIPO Academy. DL-318 Patent Information Search  (DL318E21S2) 01-Sep-2021 to 05-Dec-2021 120  hours , 8 modules (see program)
Registration :  19-May-2021 -  22-Aug-2021  Registration link Cost : see Fee list   
Next Exam :  26-Nov-2021 -  05-Dec-2021
From the program: Techniques for Searching Patent Documents; Patent Information Search Training; Efficient and Effective Searching; Specialized Searches; The Patent Search Report;...Final Exam (Academic support is provided throughout each module by experienced tutors who are expert practitioners in the field of intellectual property (IP))

Recent legal publications of interest:
Kunal Bhalla (PatInnovate Consulting LLP, India) Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) or Clearance search strategies for avoiding patent infringement Lexology, July 14, 2021. 3 p.(pdf)
Diakun, B. It will be a long time before non-patent professionals utilise IP analytics .IAM. July 10, 2021
Sperry, C., Metell, A., 2021. The USPTO’s Patent Classification and Search Systems Have Jumped on the AI Bandwagon. Mintz Viepoints Blog, July 8, 2021
Wang, S., Lutze, O., China update - patent linkage system in China: official implementation measures come into effect. Spruson & Ferguson. July 7, 2021
Loh, Christopher. New legislation requires certain patent information to be published in FDA Purple Book , Venable LLP, June 15, 2021
Li, Fan (CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office, China) Amendment to China Patent Law Offer PTA, PTE and Patent Linkage. Foley & Lardner LLP PharmaPatents Blog,, 28 June 2021
 

Footnotes
Note 1. Additional Information to the presentation "Using the Derwent Manual Codes on STNext®" (7/22/2021)
Clarivate DWPI Documentation:
DWPI manual codes (Introduction)( Sections A-N Chemical Patents Index (CPI), >8,000 codes; P&Q General & Mechanical Patents Index, (GMPI), >3,000 codes; S-X Electrical Patents Index (EPI), >15,000 codes)
CPI Manual Codes User Guide 2021 (542 p.Sections A-N, Appendices: 1.Nanotechnology. 2. Green Technology. 3. Genetic Engeenering; CPI Index);
EPI Manual Codes User Guide 2021 (Part 1: P to T, pp.1-474 [GMPI, pp.11-274]; Part 2: U to X, p.475-1033; and Part 3: Index and Appendices, pp.1035-1445 [Including: IPC to EPI Manual Code Approximate Concordance, Internet of Things, etc.])
Manual Code Lookup (includes [Boolean] keyword search in codes definition and scope notes;  results indicate codes status: current or retired)
Manual Code Revisions 2021 (6 p.)
Derwent World Patent Index -Manual Codes. 2020 Revision (18 p.) [includes summaries of manual code revision from 2006 to 2020]
Cf. DWPI classification system; DWPI Classification Guide. (2021, 68 p.)
STN-specific presentations and documentation:
Klein, Andrew (Clarivate), Brown, Jim (FIZ Karlsruhe), Using the Derwent Manual Codes on STNext. STN webinar presentation, July 21, 2021, 49 p.
Larner, B., Austin R., 2013. Improved patent searching using DWPI Manual Codes on STN. Thomson Reuters and STN e-Seminar presentation, 5 March 2013, Part 1, 41 p. (Brian Larner);  Part 2. (Rob Austin)) 19 p
Walter, D. (Thomson Reuters) Searching Derwent World Patents Index®(DWPI^sm) Manual Codes on STN®. A Deep Dive. Presentation, May 21, 2012. 66 p.
FIZ Karlsruhe, DWPI Reference Manual. STN Online User Guide. 2012. 253 p. (see Manual Codes, pp.150-152; note Engineering Patents Index;(EngPI) at p.150, cf. ProQuest Dialog)
WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX (Derwent World Patents Index®) Database Summary Sheet.January 2021. 33 p. (See search fields /FC File Segment [CPI, GMPI?,EPI],  /DC (DWPI Class and /MC (Manual codes), and footnotes 7-9, at pp.5,7 and 8)
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