Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

The following online patent information and related events are offered Tu-Thu, Dec. 14-Dec. 16, 2021 and Tue, Dec. 21


This  and next week summary
12/14/2021 4:00 AM EPO Searching post-grant data from Asia: China   
12/14/2021 4:00 AM ET Clarivate What’s New in Derwent Innovation
12/14/2021 10:00 AM ET IPlytics The Role of Standard Essential Patents for Smart Energy applications  (also 12/16/2021 8:30 CET)  New date Jan. 11 2022
12/14/2021 11:30 AM ET WIPO PATENTSCOPE: retrospective of 2021 and plans for 2022
12/14/2021 3:00 PM LexisNexis. Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential

12/14/2021 7:30 PM ET American Patent Agency webinar series@MITPatent Valuation & Business Considerations  (#14)
12/15/2021 8:00AM -11:30 ET Cambridge Information & Intellectual Property Meeting (New date: Mar.9, 2022)
12/15/2021 10:00 AM ET CAS SciFinderⁿ IP Search Tips (also at 4:00 AM ET and 4:00 PM ET)
12/15/2021 11:00AM ET PIUG Finding and Understanding Legal Status Information
12/16/2021 2:30 AM ET WIPO PATENTSCOPE: retrospective of 2021 and plans for 2022
12/16/2021 12:00 PM ET USPTO PTAB Inventor Hour Webinar
12/16/2021 4:00 PM ET Univ Utah PTRC B2B Webinar: Patent-Search Best Practices
12/21/2021 4:00 AM ET Clarivate Research Patent in a Specific Domain

Tuesday 12/14  |   Wednesday12/15  |  Thursday 12/16 |  | Tuesday 12/21


Tuesday, Dec.14, 2021
Tuesday, Dec.14, 2021
4:00-5:00 AM ET | 10:00 -11:00 AM CET
EPO  Searching post-grant data from Asia: China (KL47-2021)(Registration)
Overview of possible post-grant events in China. Searching post-grant data in Espacenet and search tools provided by the CNIPA. The session includes several case studies
See also:
 Overview of Chinese patent information (Christine Kämmer, EPO, Nov. 19, 2019, video , 44:20, presentation, 42 p.)
Protection beyond 20 years - SPCs, term extensions and adjustments Session 3: China (Jütta Haußer, Jun. 16, 2020, video (39:29- 52:53), presentation, pp.39-48) [out-of-scope of Dec. 14, 2021 webinar]
See also EPO handouts: Online file inspection in CNIPA's “China and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry. Jan. 2020, 12 p. (http://cpquery.cnipa.gov.cn/) [From 2010] ; Retrieving legal status information from CNIPA's Chinese gazette. Jan. 2020, 14 p. (http://epub.cnipa.gov.cn/gjcx.jsp); Retrieving invalidation/re-examination decisions from CNIPA's Re-examination and Invalidation Department, Dec. 2020.,  8 p. (http://reexam.cnipa.gov.cn)
INPADOC CN post-grant event codes and coverage (W49/2021).



4:00-5:00 AM ET | 10:00 AM -11:00 PM CET
Clarivate What’s New in Derwent Innovation (Registration)
The June to November release of Derwent Innovation introduced some valuable new features into Derwent Innovation namely :
Claims charting; Changes in claims between grant and application;  INPADOC family timeline; Ability to enter a publication number into Smart Search;  Patent coverage expanded; Language – specific fields for export, alerts; text clustering search to find similar documents in DWPI
This session will look at these features in detail

11:30 AM  - 12:30 PM ET | 5:30 - 6:30 PM CET
WIPO PATENTSCOPE: retrospective of 2021 and plans for 2022 (Registration)
See Patentscope News Archive for major Patentscope development in 2021: New full-text national collections: EE(Estonia), FI, KZ, NZ &  PL; Extended patent families, Markush search, NPL, etc.


3:00 -4:00 PM ET| 9:00 -10:00 PM CET
LexisNexis. Diving Deeper into Legal Research Potential (Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts)
Hosted by Alameda County Law Library  (1 California MCLE credit)
Learn advanced online legal research methods to harness your potential as a researcher and maintain a standard of competency: ... Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content; Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes; ... Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher; Statute research; Acquire archived materials in multiple ways;  Find connections between results of separate searches


7:30 - 8:30 PM ET | 1:30 - 2:30 AM CET (Dec. 15. 2021)
American Patent Agency webinar series@MIT Patent Valuation & Business Considerations  (#14) (Registration)
Instructor: DanHussein, Founder & Registered Patent Agent, American Patent Agency LC. Hosted by MIT Graduate Student Council.
Startups often ask how they may generate revenue from their patents. This session discusses how potential investors and dealmakers view patents, and the relationship between patent portfolios and company valuation. Goals: – Identify the relevant factors that determine a patent's value. – Appreciate the value that patents provide to make a business more attractive to investors.
 Note: This is the last of 14 lectures of Patent Strategy for Entrepreneurs: Fall 2021 Webinar Series @ MIT.See description of the course, recording of the previous lectures at the course website.(Available until Jan.4, 2022)



Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021
4:00 – 4: 45 AM EST | 10:00 – 10:45 AM CET (Registration)
10:00 - 10:45 AM EST |  4:00 - 4:45 PM CET (Registration) 
4:00 – 4: 45 PM EST | 10:00 – 10:45 PM CET (Registration)
CAS SciFinderⁿ [Patent] Search Tips  
Speakers: Dr. Ernst Aichinger (FIZ Karlsruhe), Darryl French and Dr. Anne Jones (CAS); Live Q&A with Paul Peters.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about: practical suggestions for narrowing down your results while not losing relevant hits; expanding the scope of freedom to operate searches to include broader or related applications
Comment: [New/old] features demonstrated/discussed: Boolean queries (AND,OR, parenthesis, but no proximity operators) in keyword search, query expansion for terms within Lexicon hierarchy), double basics indexed for initial national (CN) and PCT filings with more chemistry indexed in the latter, or vice versa; shortcuts in Structure Query Editor, combination keyword and structure queries in a single search, combination (NOT) of saved broader and narrow Markush search results, etc. AI Prior Art Search tool. Pre-recorded session followed by excellent pre-recorded Q&A by Dr. Aichinger on patent-related  topics, as look-up of legal status through direct link to Espacenet record; divisionals and continuations, IPC search in  pipeline, basic R groups (like Alk) in Markush queries, etc. (ab)



11:00AM  -12:30 PM EST |7:00AM  -8:30 PM CET
PIUG Finding and Understanding Legal Status Information  (Registration, fee)
Instructor: Stephen Adams, QPIP, Magister Ltd
This session will provide a background to the importance of retrieving information on the legal status of patents and patent applications, both at the document level and in complete collections.  The differing models of patent prosecution will be outlined briefly, followed by developments in recording legal status at the national level and compiling it into multinational databases.  The key sources for major jurisdictions will be covered, together with information on federated databases and their searchable characteristics.


Thursday, December 15, 2021
2:30  - 3:30 AM ET | 8:30 - 9:30 AM CET
WIPO PATENTSCOPE: retrospective of 2021 and plans for 2022 (Registration)
(see notes  for Dec. 14, 2021 11:30 AM ET session)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 6:00 - 7:00 PM CET
USPTO PTAB Inventor Hour Webinar (Login: Meeting link, Password: virtual)
Inventor Hour webinars are for … those new to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice. The sessions will cover PTAB proceeding basics, i.e., ex parte appeals and America Invents Act (AIA) trials, as well as other useful information for practicing before the Board such as oral hearing protocols, statistics, and more
See also recordings and presentations of previous  Aug. 26, 2021, Sep. 23, 2021 and Oct. 28, 2021  webinars posted on PTAB website.


4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET | 10:00 - 11:00 PM CET
Univ Utah PTRC Bench to Bedside Webinar: Patent-Search Best Practices (Registration)
Understanding the patent landscape around a device can be crucial to planning the next steps for design and development. Join Alfred Mowdood and Tallie Casucci of the Patent and Trademark Resources Center (PTRC) at the Marriott Library will demonstrate best-practices for patent-searches Bench to Bedside teams can employ when developing their projects.


Tuesday, Dec.21, 2021
4:00-6:00 AM ET | 10:00 AM -11:00 PM CET
Clarivate Research Patent in a Specific Domain  (Registration)
Learn how to use the classification codes in Derwent Innovation which identify patents by technological subject matter. You can use these codes to describe a technology and research inventions that match that description.
See also: DWPI classification system and link to classification manuals in DWPI Reference Center.