Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

The following online patent information and related events are offered Mon-Fri.. Nov. 15-19, 2021. See also below information about other upcoming training events  (Nov.22 – 26, 2021)

Conferences this week: The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference (GTM2021)“Mining Science & Technology Information Resources in a Digital Environment” 17-19 November 2021 (Registration, $10) (See a highlights of the program in a separate PIUG-PF post, selected presentations are also listed below)

International Forum “Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management” November, 18-19 November 2021, Sirius, Russia (onsite & online broadcast)( (Registration (Russian language interface only), choose “Премиум” ( Premium, 10 000 ₽~ $137 or Standard 5 000 ₽~ $68 or). Also Live on Youtube


This week summary
11/15/2021 11:00AM EST Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow): New Regional Systems: Protecting Trademarks and Designs in the Eurasian States
11/15/2021 12:00 PM EST Kilburn & Strode Drafting Masterclass 2. European patent drafting – masterclass for patent experts
11/16/2021 4:00 AM EST EPO Patent families and their key features
11/16/2021 4:00 AM EST EPO/EUIPO Packaging as a product: an IPR perspective

11/16/2021 8:00 AM EST EPO Introduction to PATSTAT online
11/16/2021 8:00 AM EPO Advanced lecture series on green technologies: Developing an IP strategy
11/16/2021 10:30 AM EST (also 10:00 AM CET) Gridlogics Identifying the emerging players in CRISPR-Cas9 and comparing their portfolio strengths using PatSeer Pro X
11/16/2021 11:00 AM EST Cohausz & Florack Unified Patent Court & Unitary Patent
11/16/2021 11:30 AM EST WIPO Building complex queries in PATENTSCOPE
11/16/2021 7:30 PM EST American Patent Agency webinar series@MITApplication Process & Prosecution II (#10)
11/17/2021 5:00 AM EST Clarivate How to Think Like A Professional Patent Sea Session Chair - Hongshu Chen rcher
11/17/2021 5:45 – 10:00 AM EST GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 1 (New)
11/17/2021 12:00 PM EST ML4Patents.com Webinar Series with Averbis (Episode 6)
11/17/2021 1:30 PM EST USPTO TXRO Meet the Patent Experts: Class Five  (patent searching, searching strategies)
11/18/2021 2:00 -10:20 AM  EST Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management"
11/18/2021 2:30 AM EST WIPO Building complex queries in PATENTSCOPE 
11/18/2021 4:00 AM EST EPO  Special focus Espacenet – Advanced search
11/18/2021 5:00 – 9:15 AM EST GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 2 (New)
11/18/2021 11:00 AM-3:30 PM EST USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee quarterly meeting

11/18/2021 12:00 PM EST USPTO PTAB Inventor Hour Webinar
11/18/2021 2:00 PM EST USPTO Path to a Patent Part V: Understanding the role of claims in a patent application
11/19/2021 2:00 -10:20 AM  EST Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management"
11/19/2021 4:00 AM EST EPO A deep dive: INPADOC legal event data
11/19/2021 6:00 – 9:35 AM EST GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 3 (New)
11/19/2021 10:00 AM EST Oblon Patent Term Adjustment - A Dollar Won is Twice as Sweet as a Dollar Earned (also 11/18/2021 8:00 PM EST)

Monday, 11/15  Tuesday 11/16 Wednesday 11/17 Thursday 11/18 Friday 11/19


Monday, Nov.15, 2021

11:00 AM -12:00 PM EST | 5:00 - 6:00 PM CET
Lexology/Gorodissky & Partners (Moscow) New Regional Systems: Protecting Trademarks and Designs in the Eurasian States  (Registration)
Speakers: Alexey Kratiuk, Partner, Head of Trademark Department & Viacheslav Rybchak, Partner, Head of Design Department, Gorodissky & Partners
...The issues relating to the scope of protection of Eurasian brands and designs;… Application requirements procedures and timelines; and Post registration invalidation and cancellation options


12:00 PM -1:00 PM EST | 6:00 - 7:00 PM CET
Kilburn & Strode Drafting Masterclass 2. European patent drafting – masterclass for patent experts (RSVP)
Speakers: Jim Miller, Marco Morbidini, Kristina Cornish, and Gareth Fennell, Partners, Kilburn & Strode
...The European “golden standard” of disclosure (i.e., problems with "added matter"); The smallest commercialisable setup; Clarity; Multiple independent claims and categories; What is the two-part form; Surgery, therapy, and diagnostics ; Functional language, including means plus function


Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021
4:00-5:00 AM EST | 10.00 -11.00 AM CET
EPO Patent families and their key features  (KL38-2021) (Registration)
Learn about the concept of patent families and their key features, including priorities. The seminar ...will introduce the general concept of patent families and the way they are used at the EPO for Espacenet,...and other products. Examples and case studies will illustrate how patent families are created and how they can be interpreted by patent information users.
See also:
EPO. Patent families  Webinar, 21 Feb. 2020, (48:57), presented by Sofie Leplae and Fenny Versloot-Sppoelstra, EPO
EPO. Patent families at the EPO (October, 2021, 6:17)
EPO Patent families (Discusses DOCDB simple patent family and INPADOC extended patent family)




4:00-5:30 AM EST | 10.00 -11.30 AM CET
EPO/EUIPO Packaging as a product: an IPR perspective (OS15-2021) (Registration)
Speakers: Fernaud Folliard (EUIPO), David Grondin (EPO); Cécile Fayos (EPO, moderator)
 ...what makes an invention in packaging patentable; why are relatively few packaging shapes granted trade mark protection; where does the packaging end and the product begin?

8:00 – 9:00 AM EST | 2:00 – 3:00 PM CET
EPO Introduction to PATSTAT online (KL39-2021) (Registration)
The PATSTAT product line provides a unique basis for advanced analyses of patent data, opening new opportunities for a sophisticated assessment of new technoligies, market trends or the competitive environment.
See also: PATSTAT Online - Beginners interface, Jul.10, 2019, (28:23) (Johannes Schaaff); PATSTAT Online  September 2020 (51:48)


8:00 – 9:00 AM EST | 2:00 – 3:00 PM CET
EPO Advanced lecture series on green technologies. (AS09-2021) (Registration)
Lecture 2 Developing an IP strategy: practical and post-grant aspects of green tech patents
… Which IP-related issues should you focus on if you are a growing start-up in green tech or an established company that is switching to green solutions?
Speaker: Nyske Blokhuis, Dutch and European patent attorney  EP&C, the Netherlands
Other lectures: 3. IP related challenges for an in-house IP team (11/23/2021)...


10:30 – 11:30 AM EST | 4:30 – 5:30 PM CET | (also 10:00 AM CET, Registration)
Gridlogics Identifying the emerging players in CRISPR-Cas9 and comparing their portfolio strengths using PatSeer Pro X (Registration)
Speakers: Rohit Joshi, Customer Success Manager and Ila Sutavane, Customer Success Executive, Gridlogics
In this webinar, learn how PatSeer Pro X leverages portfolio strength and quality metrics to identify the emerging and strongest players in the CRISPR-CAS9 technology space.....The webinar will also show examples of how the scores can be used across filters, charts, and matrices to find hidden and non-obvious insights in a technology area.

11:00 – 12:30 AM EST | 5:00 – 6:30 PM CET
Cohausz & Florack/Lexology Unified Patent Court & Unitary Patent (Registration)
Speakers: Gottfried Schüll, Dr. Arwed Burrichter, Jan Ackermann, and Dr. Natalie Kirchhofer, Patent Attorneys and Partners at COHAUSZ & FLORACK
...At this point in time, it is estimated that the UPC will start operations around mid-2022.
Talking points include: Structure of the Unified Patent Court, Procedures at the Unified Patent Court, Important considerations regarding the Unitary Patent, Opt-out: Pros and cons
See also:
Herbert Smith Freehills. (Dec. 2020- Sep. 2021) The Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent: Navigating the new EU patent system (Legal Briefings) [Introduction; UPC: Jurisdiction and "opt-out"; UPC Structure – local, regional and central divisions; The UPC Rules; UPC: Costs and Fees; How to get a Unitary Patent; Where will a UP have effect?; Prepare and Protect your Portfolio"]

11:30 AM– 12:30 PM EST | 5:30 – 6:30 PM CET (also at 11/18/2021 at 8:30 CET, Registration)
WIPO Building complex queries in PATENTSCOPE (Registration)
Presenter: Sandrine Ammann, Marketing & Communications Officer, WIPO
See presentations of the previous webinars “Complex queries in the PATENTSCOPE search system” in Oct. 2019 (74 p.) or Oct. 2018 (82 p.) (In depth presentation of the interfaces, fields, syntax and tools to build complex queries).
See also presentations on Patentscope Summer course, Session 1 (Jul. 7, 2021, Search fields, operators and nesting, slides, 63 p.) and Session 2 (Jul. 21 2021, Caret, stemming, wildcards, truncation and fuzzy searches, slides, 111 p.)           


7:30 - 8:30 PM EST | 1:30 - 2:30 AM CET
American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Application Process & Prosecution II (#10) (Registration)
Instructor: Stephen Hou, Patent prosecution advisor at American Patent Agency LC.
This session discusses case studies of various US patent applications undergoing examination and prosecution.
 Note: This is the 10^th of 14 lectures of this webinar. See recording of the previous lectures at the course website. (until Jan.6, 2022)



Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021
5:00-6:00 AM EST | 11:00 AM -12:00 PM CET
Clarivate How to Think Like A Professional Patent Searcher (Registration)


5:45 – 10:00 AM EST | 11:45 AM– 4:00 PM CET
GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 1 (Registration, $10 for a conference)
6:45 -7:45 AM EST | 12:45 PM-1:45 PM CET |

GTM2021. Advanced Bibliometrics, (Session Chair - Hongshu Chen, Beijing Institute of Technology)
COVID-19 knowledge deconstruction and retrieval: Solutions of intelligent bibliometrics. Mengjia Wu (Univ. of Technology Sydney), Yi Zhang, Mark Markley, Caitlin Cassidy, Nils Newman and Alan Porter
See:  Porter, A. L., Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., & Wu, M (2020). Tracking and Mining the COVID-19 Research Literature. Frontiers in research metrics and analytics, 5, 594060. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2020.594060
VantagePoint Dashboard “Corona Virus — Exploring Causes and Cures through Literature Based Discovery’
Mapping Canadian Patented Inventions Mazahir Bhagat, Sean Martineau and Daouda Sylla (CIPO, Canada)
See an abstract and a copy of Mazahir’s presenation an AI-SDV 2021 (Oct 4.2021) website.
https://whova.com/embedded/session/gtc_202111/1973039

6:45 -7:45 AM EST | 12:45 PM-1:45 PM CET

GTM2021.Session Embeddings  (Session Chair - Yi Zhang)
Using machine learning approaches for the global tech-mining of B5G [beyond  5G] related technologies and applications Amy J.C. Trappey, Ann Y.N. Wei [National Tsing Hua University, TW], Kuo-An Li and L.P. Hung
...
https://whova.com/embedded/session/gtc_202111/1973040



12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST | 6:00 -7:00 PM CET
ML4Patents.com Webinar Series with Averbis (Episode 6) (Registration)
... Patent Monitor or its predecessors are successfully used in … Authorities like the European and Swiss patent Office
Additional  Info:
Averbis GmbH (Germany) Patent Monitor (see three screenshots and three quick tutorial videos (Apr. 9, 2021): Parts 1. Configuring the Patent Monitor (3:29);  2: Creating category systems and training the classifier (4:47); 3: Generating results (4:12))


1:30 – 2:30 PM EST | 7:30 – 8:30 PM CET
USPTO – Texas Regional Office Meet the Patent Experts: Class Five  (Registration)
Class Five covers the basics of patent searching and an introduction to searching strategies.

Thursday, November 18, 2021
2:30 AM EST | 8:30 CET
WIPO Building complex queries in PATENTSCOPE  (Registration) (see information above, 11/16/2021 at 11:30 AM EST)

2:00 -3:20 AM EST | 8:00 -9:20 AM CET | 10:00 -11:20 MSK
Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management" Day 1 Patent Analytics for the Government  (Registration, fee, Live on Youtube)
Plenary session: "Patent Analytics as a Factor of Global Technological Development"

4:00 AM EST
EPO  Special focus Espacenet – Advanced search (KL40-2021) (Registration)
In this online seminar we will have a closer look at the various aspects associated with the Advanced search feature of Espacenet. We will introduce the different functionalities and demonstrate them with practical examples.

6:15 PM-7:15 PM CET | 12:15 PM-1:15 PM CET
GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 2
Panel Discussion: Standard Essential Patents and their Identification
Moderator  Alfred Radauer,  IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Panelists: Martin Bader, Partner and Co-Founder, BGW AG Management Advisory Group; André Herzberg, Research Associate, University of Bremen; Tim Pohlmann, CEO & Founder, IPlytics
  ....What novel techniques may serve the identification of SEPs? Training of machine learning to differ between SEPs and nSEPs? Comparing patents to technical standards?  Analyzing patent characteristics to detect path dependencies which serve standard setting characteristics?

Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management" (contd.)
7:00 8:40 AM EST | 1:00 -2:40 PM CET | 15:00 -16:40 MSK
International Online Conference "Patent Analytics. Global Think Tank"
International speakers include Prof. Yuya Kajikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Irene Kitsara (WIPO), Dr. Bernice Oh (IPOS International),  Marco Richter (LexisNexis PatentSight), Anthony Trippe  (Patinformatics, LLC),  Dr. Lei Wang (CNIPA).

8:15 PM-9:15 PM CET | 2:15 PM-3:15 PM CET
GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 2 (Registration, $10 for a conference) (New)
Session: Machine Learning for Patent Analytics (Session Chair - Christopher Harrison)
Predicting standard-essential patents by machine learning: The use case of 5G technology Andre Herzberg [University of Bremen], Nils M. Denter and Martin G. Moehrle
Patent summarization using Generative Adversarial Netoworks(GNAs) Sunhye Kim and Byungun Yoon [Dongguk university] "
Explainable AI (XAI) model for patent novelty analysis Hyejin Jang and Byungun Yoon [Dongguk university]

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM  EST | 6:00 - 7:00 PM  EST
USPTO PTAB Inventor Hour Webinar  (Meeting link, Password: virtual)

2:00 – 3:30 PM EST | 8:00 – 9:30 PM EST
USPTO Path to a Patent Part V: Understanding the role of claims in a patent application (Registration)


8:00 – 9:00 PM EST
Oblon Patent Term Adjustment - A Dollar Won is Twice as Sweet as a Dollar Earned  (Registration) See details below 11/19 at 10:00 AM


Friday, Nov. 19, 2021

4:00 AM EST  | 10:00 AM CET
EPO A deep dive: INPADOC legal event data  (KL41-2021)(Registration)

... We’ll be looking at the INPADOC categories and the possibilities they offer, e.g. How to filter the events using the categories, and how to monitor the latest events. You’ll also get the latest news on coverage and updates to the INPADOC legal event data in 2021 like the EP register codes recently introduced.

Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management" (Day 2 Patent Analytics for the Business)  (Live on Youtube)

5:40 -7:30 AM EST | 11:40 AM  -1:30 PM CET | 13:40 -15:30 MSK
Professional Patent Analytics Tools

7:50 -9:20 AM EST | 1:50 -3:20 PM CET | 15:50 -17:20 MSK
Tech Consulting Provided by the FIPS Project Office [Master Class]

6:30 – 7:30 AM EST | 2:30 -3:30 PM CET
GTM2021 The 11th Annual Global TechMining Conference, Day 3 (New)
Panel Discussion. Digitalization: Upcoming trends for the Next Period of Time
Panel Moderator - Nils Newman, Search Technoloyg, Inc.
Panelists: Nils Denter, University of Bremen, Amy Trappey, Professor of National Tsing Hua University (TW); Tony Trippe, Patinformatics, LLC

7:20 -9:00 AM EST | 1:20 -3:00 PM CET | 15:20 -17:00 MSK
Rospatent (RU)   International forum "Patent analytics As a Tool in Science, Technology and Innovation management"
Scouting and Technology Transfer

10:00 – 11:00 AM EST | 4:00– 5:00 PM CET (also 11/18/2021 8:00 PM EST)
Oblon Patent Term Adjustment - A Dollar Won is Twice as Sweet as a Dollar Earned  (Registration)
In this webinar we will discuss the important topic of patent term adjustment (PTA) under 35 U.S.C. §154(b)...

Other upcoming events (Nov.23 – Nov.26, 2021)
11/22-23/2021 IP Service World, Convention & Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
11/23/2021 4:00 AM EST EPO Inventor’s certificates – a forgotten source of prior art?  (New)
11/23/2021 8:00 AM EST EPO Advanced lecture series on green technologies: IP commercialisation
11/23/2021 7:30 PM EST American Patent Agency webinar series@MITPost-Grant Proceedings (#11)
11/25/2021 10:00 AM EST Elsevier Big Data in Chemistry: A Universal Approach to Reaction Informatics (Prof. Leo Cronin, Univ. of Glasgow) (New)
11/26/2021 8:15 AM EST EPO BoA and key decisions 2021: Inventive step: views from national judges and board members (fee) (New)