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The following online patent information and related events are offered Mon-Fri.. Nov. 1-5, 2021: See also below information about other upcoming training events  (Nov.8 – 19, 2021) and conferences.

There is EPO Knowledge Week, Nov., 2-5, 2021. Registration is free and  open until Nov. 4, 2021 (7 p,m. ET). A separate Oct. 31, 2021 PIUG-PF post highlights the program of the conference, but many presentations repeated in this post as well. Also EPO has published a list of upcoming webinars for Nov. 9 - Dec. 14, 2021 (also see below, marked as New).

This week summary
11/1-5/2021 Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session
11/2-5/2021 EPO Knowledge Week
11/2/2021 12:00 PM ET J A Kemp IP for Plants and Plant Protection Products in Europe and UK
11/2/2021 7:30 PM ET American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Patentability Requirements V: 103 (Non-Obviousness) (#8)
11/3/2021 10:00 AM ET STN Coffee Lecture: AI-based prior art technology in STNext
11/3/2021 11:00AM ET PIUG Patent Classification (Stephen Adams)
11/3/2021 3:00 PM ET USPTO  Learn how to protect your technology abroad
11/4/2021 10:00AM ET Dennemeyer - The IP Group [Octamine]. .Unravelling the mystery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the IP Industry
11/4/2021 11:00 AM ET Iris.ai Automatic abstractive summary with AI (Live demo of summarization tool, powered by artificial intelligence)
11/4/2021 1:00PM ET WIPR/IPRally AI to find prior art: patentability & invalidation searching & patent drafting
11/4/2021 2:00 PM ET USPTO The Path to a Patent, Part IV: Learn how to draft a patent application,



Monday, Nov.1, 2021
7:00 -9:30 AM ET | 12:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session, Day 1 (Agenda draft) (Day 1 Recording)
Agenda Item # 3 XML4IP Task Force Report CWS/9/3 (release of WIPO ST.96 Schema v.5 (Oct. 1, 2021), plans to develop a JSON Standard draft fot CSW/10, development of Priority Document schemas, Trademark/Design legal status schemas, Alloy composition schemas [KIPO&EPO]; Agenda Item # 6 Proposal of new ST.91 “Digital 3D Models and 3D Images in IP documentation”(see CWS/9/5 & CWS/9/6) (reported by Rospatent (RU), revised version of CWS/9/6 to be published): recommended format for submission 3 D models (one of STEP, IGES, U3D, OBJ or STL formats  for invention, utility models, designs,  integrated circuit topographies, etc. and  CVX of MOL formats for chemical structures), method of search of 3D models to be developed later,




Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021
EPO Knowledge week
5:00-6:10 AM ET | 10.00 -11.10 CET (Main Track)
 Session: From patent information to patent knowledge
The transition from patent information to patent knowledge. Richard Flammer, Principal Director Patent Knowledge, EPO
From Patent Information to IP Intelligence (The industry perspective on patent knowledge),Thorsten Zank, President, PDG (Head of Center of Information Excellence, BASF)
Mapping patents on health technologies for the public interest: the MedsPaL and VaxPaL databases. Amina Maillard, Medicines Patent Pool

5:10 -6:10 AM ET | 10:10 -11:10 CET (SME Track)
The economics of patent information, Yann Ménière, EPO
Key takeaways from innovation case studies, Ilja Rudyk and Thomas Bereuter, EPO

6:10 -6:40 AM ET | 11:10 -11:40 CET (SME Track)
Prior art search and basic patent statistics with Espacenet  - case study, Arzu Firlarer, Başkent University (BITTO), PATLIB Centre, TR, Engin Hazar, Krommetal Mühendislik Ltd şti 
Monitoring and freedom-to-operate searches with GPI - case study with a medical devices company, Björn Jürgens, PATLIB Agencia de Innovación y Desarrollo de Andalucía, ES , Marina Schoenemann, DSruptive, ES

7:00 -9:30 AM ET | 12:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session, Day 2 (Agenda draft) (Webcasting)
From Agenda: # 6 Proposal of new ST.91 (contd.); #7 Blockchain for IP ecosystem, CWS/9/7, CWS/9/8 with Annex; #8 Legal Status Data CWS/9/9 [ST.27 revision]; #9 Sequence Listings, CWS/9/11 [ST.61 revision];  #10 Patent Authority File, CWS/9/13 (for minimum PCT documentation).
Related: WIPO meeting: Blockchain Whitepaper for IP Ecosystems (video, 3:19:06 + 10 presentations)

EPO Knowledge week
8:00-9:30 AM ET | 13.00 -14.30 CET (Main Track)
An in-depth look at Espacenet , Roland Feinäugle, EPO

8:45 -9:05 AM ET | 13:45 -14:05 CET (SME Track)
Trend monitoring - how to do it yourself, Johannes Schaaf, EPO

8:00-9:30 AM ET | 13.00 -14.30 CET (Main Track)
Artificial intelligence and IP - friends or foes?. Alexander Klenner-Bajaja, Head of Data Science,  EPO, Samuel Davis, amplified.ai (Discussants)

 9:05 -9:25 AM ET | 14:05 -14:25 CET (SME Track)
The Unitary Patent in the starting block , Michael Fröhlich, EPO


12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 5:00– 6:00 PM CET
J A Kemp (UK) IP for Plants and Plant Protection Products in Europe and UK (Recording, 61:20)
Speakers: Andrew Bentham & Chris Milton, Partners, Patent Attorneys, A Kemp
Topics include: Patenting plant protection products such as herbicides and pesticides; … inventive step at the EPO for plant protection products; SPCs and regulatory data protection for plant protection products; Patent-eligibility of plants and agricultural microbes under the EPC; Plant variety rights (PVR) in the EU and UK; Brexit considerations.

7:30 - 8:30 PM ET | 1:30 - 2:30 AM CET
American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Patentability Requirements V: 103 (Non-Obviousness) (#8) (Registration)
Instructor: Stephen Hou, Patent prosecution advisor at American Patent Agency LC.Hosted by MIT Graduate Student Council.
… This session discusses the patentability requirements from 35 USC 103 (non-obviousness). Goals: – Understand and apply the standards the patent office and the federal courts use to gauge the non-obviousness of inventions. – Develop strategies for overcoming claim rejections due to obviousness.
 Note: This is the 8^th of 14 lectures of Patent Strategy for Entrepreneurs: Fall 2021 Webinar Series @ MIT. The webinars held every Tuesdays 7:30 PM (1 hour plus Q&A) until  December 14, 2021. See description of the course, recording of the previous lectures at the course website.



Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021
EPO Knowledge week
5:00 – 6:15 AM ET | 10.00 – 11.15 CET (Main Track)
Session: Patent landscaping, analytics, statistics and everything about gaining more insight
A short history and outlook for the patent data and analytics industry, Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge.
Patent analytics at the EPO: insight reports within the framework of FETA (future and emerging technology analysis) activities, Sonia Kaufmann, EPO
The making of the energy transition report, Yann Ménière, Chief Economist Unit, EPO

5:00 – 6:00AM ET | 10.00 – 11.00 CET (Patent attorney track)
Patents in the new era of artificial intelligence, Susanne Hantos, Davies Collison Cave
From patent information to patent knowledge and beyond, Dietmar Pressner, European patent attorney
More than ticking a box - some ideas on further integrating patent information, Eric de Cock van Gimst, SONION Nederland BV


7:00 -9:30 AM ET | 12:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session, Day 3 (Agenda draft) (Webcasting)
From Agenda: #11 Design Representation CWS/9/15 [ST.88 rev.]; #12 Survey on public access to patent information, Part 2 CWS/9/16)

8:00-9:30 AM ET | 13.00 -14.30 CET (Patent attorney track)
Patent families: does the information that is currently available really meet the needs of stakeholders? Guido Moradei,.  QUAESTIO
The European Patent Register and associated alerts. Yolanda Sánchez García, EPO
Access to court decisions related to patents and the ECLI, Ignacio Muñoz Ozores, EPO
Recent Chinese patent law changes - what European applicants can expect, Ming Deng, CPA Munich Office

9:00 -9:10 AM &  9:25 -9:30 AM (Q&A) ET | 14.00 -14.10  & 14:25 -14.30 (Q&A) CET (PATLIB track)
Synergies between the EPO and PatCom Roland Feinäugle, EPO, Paul Peters, PatCom

10:00 -10:15 AM ET | 3:00 -3:15 PM CET
STN Coffee Lecture: AI-based prior art technology in STNext (recording, 17:00,  presentation, 9 p.)
Presenter: Paul Peters, ACS International
CAS has developed an AI-based prior art search technology which makes use of the controlled terminology and substance indexing as well as IPC classifications of an initial patent publication that serves as the starting point. The result is a set of closest prior art patent and non-patent literature references published prior to the starting patent document.
Note: CAS Prior Art Search Engine (PaSE) has been originally as Intelligent Prior Art Search (IPAS) for Brazil’s INPI,  successfully used to decrease a backlog of pharmaceutical patent application and has received 2021 PIUG The Stu Kaback Business Impact Award. Technology is protected by US10891321B2 “Systems and methods for performing a computer-implemented prior art search”(Issued Jan. 12, 2021) and pending in some other countries (as well as divisional application published as US20210089563A1). See attached a screenshot from the Nov. 3, 2021 presentation demonstrating how PaSE works.


11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET | 4:00 -5:30 PM ET
PIUG Patent Classification
Instructor: Stephen Adams, QPIP, Magister Ltd. (UK)
This session will provide an overview to the effective use of patent classifications.  The systems covered will be the International Patent Classification and its derivatives, the CPC and the FI systems.  You will encounter illustrations of usage for different types of patent information retrieval.  There are several mechanisms to enable the user to identify the classification marks which may be suitable for each subject-based search; tools for this will be discussed, relevant to each of the distinct classification systems covered.  The revision cycles will be described together with means for keeping your knowledge up-to-date.


3:00 – 5:00 PM ET | 8:00 – 10:00 PM CET
USPTO Learn how to protect your technology abroad
Presenter: Layla Lauchman, Special Programs Examiner, International Patent Legal Administration, USPTO
Presentation includes:... Direct filing (Paris Convention); The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT System, PCT Chapters I and II, The national stage of the PCT); Hague System for Industrial Designs.
See additional information in Sep.23, 2020 PIUG-PF post


Thursday, November 4, 2021
EPO Knowledge week
5:00 – 6:15 AM ET | 10.00 – 11.15 CET (Main Track)
Session: Legal insight for patent searchers
One small step for a man, an inventive step for the patent office?. Eric de Cock van Gimst, Sonion Nederland B.V.
The Unitary Patent in the starting block. Michael Fröhlich, EPO
Claim interpretation tips for patent information professionals.Susanne Hantos, Senior Patent Counsel/Manager, Patent Intelligence Services, Davies Collison Cave


7:00 -9:30 AM ET | 12:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session, Day 4 (Agenda draft) (Webcasting)
From Agenda: #19.Exchange of information on digitalization activities (the last item on the agenda for Day 4)

EPO Knowledge week
7:05 – 7:15 AM ET | 12.05 – 12.15 CET  +Q&A (University Track)
Overlooked but essential: prior art from Asia . Jutta Haußer and Jürgen Mühl, EPO

8:00-9:05 AM ET | 13.00 -14.05 CET (Main Track)
Patent data insights
Patent data insights overview. Sofie Leplae, EPO
Overview of EPO's bulk data products and services. Vesna Vajsbaher, EPO
In historical outlook on prior-art data at the EPO.  David Horat, EPO
Legal event data: Status and outlook; INPADOC classification. Christian Soltmann and Sonia Kaufmann, EPO
European Publication Server Webservices and Linked Open Data. Patrick le Gonidec, EPO

8:30 – 8:50 AM ET | 13.30 – 13.50 CET +Q&A (University Track)
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine: technology transfer in real time, Matt Carpenter, Oxford University Innovation Limited


10:00 -11:00 AM ET | 3:00 -4:00 PM ET
Dennemeyer - The IP Group [Octamine]. Unravelling the mystery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the IP Industry  (Registration)
Speakers: Dr. Michael Natterer, Managing director of Dennemeyer Octimine and Dennemeyer Innovation, Kuan-Fu Lin, Data Scientist with Dennemeyer Octimine …

In this webinar, we will open the black box and reveal the magic of this cutting-edge technology [AI], discuss its drawbacks, challenges and future automation potential. After reviewing the current state of AI in IP, we will guide you through the inner workings of a neural network in an intuitive way. Without dozens of formulas, but with simple words and visualizations, we will explain how a neural network really works using real patent cases from the fields of environmental technologies and robotics.



11:00 AM -12:00 PM ET | 4:00 -5:00 PM CET
Iris.ai Automatic abstractive summary with AI (Live demo)
Presenters: Kimberly Holtz, Business Development Manager & Ronin Wu, Research Lead, iris.ai
…In this webinar you will learn: The functionality and technology behind automated text summarization; How the accuracy of an abstractive summarization can be measured; About the difference between a single and multi-document summarization…We use abstractive summarization, which generates a short and concise summary, creating new sentences that may not appear in the text and captures the context of the source text. (See an example of a patent description summarization).
Iris.ai The AI researcher. AI tools and applications to allow humans to make sense of all of the world’s scientific knowledge — and apply it.



1:00 - 2:00 PM ET | 6:00 -7:00 PM CET
WIPR/IPRally AI to find prior art: patentability & invalidation searching & patent drafting (Recording, 1:06:15)
Presenters: Sakari Arvela (IP Rally), Thomas Freitag (Melexis), Jeremy Kriegel (Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP)
… In this session, IPRally will share best practices learned from customers, focusing on: Invalidation searching (45:11-55:06 see Marshall Gerstein IP Invalidity Approaches 'Old' ways (at 48:01)) Patentability searching. (See: Boolean (@29:32) vs. with AI (@31:07))…
See also:
Arvela, Sakari. Employing knowledge graphs and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for patent research. AI and Patents Workshop at ICAIL 2021. June 25, 2021 (video, 17:41)
ML4Patents.com Webinar Series with IP Rally (Episode 5) (video,1:01:38, Oct. 27, 2021)


2:00 - 3:00 PM ET | 7:00 -8:00 PM CET
USPTO The Path to a Patent, Part IV: Learn how to draft a patent application (Registration)
Attend this virtual workshop and learn from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) experts about the formalities and requirements of drafting a patent application, as well as how to avoid common mistakes

Friday Nov 5, 2021
EPO Knowledge week (Asia Track) (Registration, free by Nov. 4, 2021, 5:00 PM ET)  

5:10 – 5:30 AM ET | 10.10 – 10.30 CET
Who's who? Challenges when searching Asian documentation for applicants and owners, Philippe Bodart, Total Energies

5:30 – 6:10 AM ET | 10.30 – 11.10 CET
Panel discussion: Getting to know Asian patent filers
Transliteration versus translation in Asian names - the perspective of a linguist. Jutta  Haußer, EPO 
The importance of standardising of names - the perspective of industry. Arndt Mecke, Siemens 
Applicant names and the art of citing Asian patent document - the perspective of an examiner. Christoph Wirner, EPO .
Change of ownership - the perspective of a commercial provider. Kim Donghyun, Lexis Nexis
Asian names in the EPO's databases - the perspective of a data specialist . Tania Malmierca, EPO

6:10 – 6:40 AM ET | 11.10 – 11.40 CET
Glimpses at the EPO's workbench 
Applicant names and non-patent literature. Jenny Olausson, EPO 
Crossing borders: applications with different Asian applicants. Kati Clarke, EPO 
Applicant names in DOCDB. Tania Malmierca, EPO 
Creating patent families - the impact of dual filing in China. Sofie Leplae, EPO
6:40 – 7:00 AM ET | 11.40 – 12.00 CET
Monitoring innovation in Asia: case studies using the national offices´ databases, Jutta Haußer and Jürgen Mühl, EPO

7:00 -9:30 AM ET | 12:00 - 2:30 PM CET
Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) Ninth Session, Day 4 (Agenda draft) (Webcasting)
From Agenda: #19.Exchange of information on digitalization activities (the last item on the agenda for Day 4) Agenda Item #20. Consideration of the Work Program and Tasks List of the CWS, CWS/9/23


Other upcoming events (Nov.8 – 19, 2021)
11/8-10/2021 WIPO IPC Union - IPC Revision Working Group, Forty-Sixth Session
11/8/2021-12/3/2021 EPO Behind the scenes | PU11-2021 (Fee, by 11/4/2021)  (includes Nov. 8-12, 2021 - Behind the scene – Search)
11/9/2021 4:00 AM EPO Search Basics (KL34-2021)
11/9/2021 8:00 AM EPO Introduction to the European Patent Register  (KL35-2021)
11/9/2021 8:00 AM EPO Advanced lecture series on green technologies: Patenting in green technologies (AS09-2021) (4 lectures: + 11/16,23,30/2021)
11/9/2021 7:30 PM ET American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Application Process & Prosecution I (#9)
11/10/2021 4:00 AM ET Clarivate: What’s New in Derwent Innovation
11/10/2021 4:00 AM ET SHIGA International Patent Office: Patent Term Extensions for Pharmaceutical Inventions in Japan (New)
11/10/2021 11:00AM ET PIUG Introduction to Patent Analytics and Technical Intelligence
11/10/2021 & 11/12/2021 10:00 AM ET CIIPM: Freedom to Operate Search & Analysis – Advanced (Fee)
11/10/2021 11:00AM ET Big Data in Chemistry: Understanding the history of chemical space through big data [Reaxys]
11/10/2021 3:00 PM ET Clarivate How to Think Like A Professional Patent Searcher
11/11/2021 4:00 AM ET EPO Introduction to Espacenet (New)
11/11/2021 8:00 AM ET EPO A beginner’s guide to INPADOC legal event data (New)
11/15/2021 11:00AM ET Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow): New Regional Systems: Protecting Trademarks and Designs in the Eurasian States
11/15/2021 12:00 PM ET Kilburn & Strode Drafting Masterclass 2. European patent drafting – masterclass for patent experts
11/16/2021 4:00 AM ET EPO Patent families and their key features (New)
11/16/2021 8:00 AM ET EPO Introduction to PATSTAT online (New)
11/16/2021 8:00 AM EPO Advanced lecture series on green technologies: Developing an IP strategy
11/16/2021 10:30 AM ET Cohausz & Florack Unified Patent Court & Unitary Patent
11/16/2021 10:30 AM ET (also 10:30 AM CET) Gridlogics Identifying the emerging players in CRISPR-Cas9 and comparing their portfolio strengths using PatSeer Pro X
11/16/2021 7:30 PM ET American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Application Process & Prosecution II (#10)
11/17/2021 12:00 PM ET ML4Patents.com Webinar Series with Averbis (Episode 6)
11/17/2021 1:30 PM ET USPTO TXRO Meet the Patent Experts: Class Five  (patent searching, searching strategies)
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See information on forthcoming conferences in Oct.23, 2021 PIUG-PF post