Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

Indian Patent Search and Patent Prosecution firm offers a series of free IP webinars in July 3 -September 3, 2020.  These 1-hour webinars are hosted on GotoWebinar Platform, and held 11:00 AM | 5:00 PM CET | 8:30 PM IST

Note: The company provides an option to subscribe to all or selected webinars and get access to recorded webinars in a single registration at the bottom of the hyperlinked page.

Below is a selection of upcoming webinars of interest:

Hybrid Patentability Searches™ – An Innovative Way to Ensure Quality at Significantly Lower Costs and Turnaround

Hybrid Patentability Searches™ is a rational approach of increasing ROI [on innovationwhile keeping costs in control. In this webinar, we introduce a working model to shortlist submitted ideas, in a cost-optimized manner such that only worthy ideas go for protection, yet no idea goes waste. We will also look at some AI based tools, our hands-on experience with them and how and when to use them. This approach has already been well received by some of the most IP conscious firms.

 Key points: ...3. How patent creation can be continued at an optimized cost model? 4. Business case proving the overall cost of obtaining a patent is reduced.

A link for registration/access to recording after event (July 9, 2020 11 AM EDT, 5PM  CET,  8:30 PM IST)

30 Questions You Must Ask When Choosing a Patent Search Vendor (July 16, 2020)

AI Powered Patentability Searches (July 17, 2020)

Mega Trend / Technical Monitoring to Identify What Type of Patents are Filed in The Domain of Interest (July 22, 2020)

How US Firms Ensure Compliance with Export Control Regulations When Offshoring Patentability Searches (July 23, 2020)

Contemporary Patentability Searches^TM – Comprehensive returns on New Inventions [Novelty + FTO / Novelty + State-of-the-Art Search] (July 29, 2020)

Competitor Monitoring to See What Competitors are Filing and Where Their R&D is Heading Towards (August 5, 2020)

Contemporary Patent Invalidation Searches™ – A 360° Approach to Litigation (August 6, 2020)

Contemporary Landscapes: An Efficient Tool Providing Simultaneous Business and Legal Insights for Better Investment Decisions (August 13, 2020)

[See a sample of Sagacious IP’s IP “Landscape Search on Meal Replacement Food Products , 9p.; performed using Questel-Orbit databases]

Monitoring Technical Domains for In-Licensing Options and Opportunity Identification (August 20, 2020)

Monitoring Competitors Patents for Risk Mitigation (Legal Status Monitoring) and Strategize for Opposition/ Licensing (September 3, 2020)

Selected recorded webinars (hyperlinked to GotoWebinar website for webinars recorded on or after May 20, 2020,  or to  Sagacious IP website)

All About 4 Types of Patent & Market Watches + 5 Ways Global Market Leaders Use it to Their Benefit (July 8, 2020)

...How does monitoring helps with risk mitigation; R&D strategizing; commercialization/licensing strategies. Sagacious Case Studies.

Speaker: Devika Saini, Assistant Manager LSC, Sagacious IP

Evolution of AI and Automation in IP and How IT is Shaping The Future of Intellectual Property Industry (July 3, 2020)

AI and Machine Learning are revolutionizing IP practices all over the world. But have you wondered how these emerging technologies will impact the IP workforce? What are the new opportunities that lie ahead through digital transformation?

Speakers: Sumit Prasad, Group Manager, ICT & Prateek Mohunta, COO, Sagacious IP

Top Tips to Comprehensively Search Indian Patents (June 15, 2020)

Does IPCs correctly assigned to Indian patents; Is assignee information reliable?; What is best search method searching Indian patents (IPC only, IPC + keyword, Keyword only, etc)?; What are best databases to Indian patents? Which databeses update legal status information?

Speakers: Manish Sinha (Gridlogics), Ginish George (Relecura), Kavita Poddar, (Senior IP Director, Questel Orbit), Rohit Joshi & Rajat Gulati (Sagacious IP)

(see a post at PIUG-PF at Jun.16, 2020).

Performing Prior-Art Search in Pharmaceutical Domain – A Structured Approach (May 20, 2020)

Challanges: Compound could be disclosed by  its IUPAC Name, common names, salts, exact or Markush structurs, crystalline or enantiomeric forms;  The role of inactive agents in the composition; Whether the formulation or the composition needs to be searched; Whether the route of administration/ or use is important for searching...

Key points: Differences in performing different type of prior-art searches in Pharmaceutical Domain; Considerations for performing prior-art search in Pharmaceutical Domains (Structure Search + Keyword Based Searching; Considerations for analysing patents

Speakers: Pooja Chhikara & Harsha Agarwal , Project Managers LSC, Sagacious IP

What are the Current Diagnostics, Therapies, and Vaccines in Pipeline for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Key findings from our report: Therapies in pipeline; Current partnerships; Diagnostic Techniques. Demonstration of Relecura Tech Explorer for COVID-19. Introduction to Sagacious Coronavirus IP Research Assistance Program [Pro Bono 1000 Hours of Free multi-lingual Patent/ Literature Information, offered 19 Mar 2020]

Speakers: Dr. George Koomullil, Founder & CEO, Relecura; Faiz Wahid, Regional Head – Europe, Harsha Agarwal, Project Manager – Life Sciences and Chemistry, Ankur Gupta, Head – Life Sciences & Chemistry, all of Sagacious IP)

Note: A related document [A Detailed Guide on Coronavirus (COVID-19) History, All Current/ Pipeline Treatments & Ongoing/ Past Research/Patents (Sagacious IP(India)/Aagami Inc.(USA)), Updated Apr. 30, 2020, 20p.] could be downloaded from Sagacious IP website. It also includes “Quick Patent Landscape” at pp.11-17. See also Relucura's on PIUG-DF post  (May 29, 2020) on Relecura’s COVID Analyzer.

3 Most Effective Ways to Spot Tech Trends Using Patent Intelligence

Why it is important to identify future tech trends?​ Method and frameworks for identifying tech trends​. What data is critical for such an analysis?​ How patent information adds important intelligence for identifying tech trends?​ Interpretation of data to predict the key insights​. How can companies benefit from the intelligence drawn from the such trends in making strategic decisions?

Speakers: Faiz Wahid​, Regional Head – Europe​ & Dhananjay Das, Manager – ICT Licensing Sales, Sagacious IP

A Proven Approach to Identify Quality Patents in Any Industry

…How you can identify key patents and the patent owners? What data is critical for such an analysis? How to interpret the analysis to generate key insights? How to check if the key-patents are owned by not-so-known companies or an NPE? How can companies benefit from the intelligence drawn from such analysis in making strategic decisions?

Speakers: Abhinav Mahajan & Dhananjay Kr. Das, Managers, ICT, Sagacious IP

How to choose & get most out of your IP search partner in 2020

Important parameters of evaluating your IP search partner that are relevant in 2020; Parameters that may appear relevant – but are not that relevant, at least in 2020; Pointers to enable you to get more from your existing search providers; How the right search partner can help you impact your topline, bottom-line and intellectual asset value.

Speakers: Anant Kataria, CEO of Sagacious IP & Ben Pezzlo, President at Search-Center (Fredericksburg, VA, USA)

See also Jun. 16, 2020 press-release on IPWatchdog.com on collaboration between  and Search-Center to “deliver a suite of state-of-the-art IP services to the market”

About  Sagacious IP (Sagacious Research):  “One of the largest IP solutions provider globally, helping organizations monetize, defend and expand their IP portfolios. Locations: US: Chicago Seattle Boston CANADA: Toronto CHINA: Shanghai JAPAN: Tokyo EUROPE: Eindhoven INDIA: Gurgaon Bengaluru Nagpur”

See also information about experience of Sagacious IP key people.

Note: This post in PIUG-PF is for informational  purposes only and not for endorsement of any services of Sagacious IP and its partners.

Updates: July 8, 2020: Information on July 8, 2020 webinar on Hybrid Patentability Searches™ has been added.

July 3, 2020: Links to several recorded webinars has been added or updated.