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• PIUG Course - Essential Patent Search Techniques For IP Professionals

  • Start
    05 May 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • End
    31 Dec 2027
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    The Drake Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, IL 60611
  • Spaces left
    85

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  INSTRUCTOR: John Zabilski Chair, PIUG Education & Training Committee

  Registered US Patent Agent (No. 59,626)

  Qualified Patent Information Professional (No. 20190010100257)

  Build a strong foundation of essential patent information and techniques for effective patent searching.

  Learn necessary patent law concepts, bibliographic search skills including ways to identify expert witnesses, comprehensive keyword approaches for specific search types, and basics of alternative strategies including classification, citation and semantic searching.

  While this course is ideal for newer searchers including paralegals and patent agents it also provides a strong refresher for more experienced IP professionals. Included are practical applications and opportunities to reinforce concepts with interactive search examples.

  Some of what is included in this course:

  • Types and parts of patent publications
  • Basics of U.S. Patent Law
  • Essential International Patent Law
  • Patent timelines covering publication stages
  • Identifying patent search resources
  • Database coverage, content and structure
  • Search approaches including bibliographic, keyword, classification, citation, full-text and indexed content
  • Building comprehensive search statements using search operators and command language techniques including nesting, truncation, wildcards and stemming
  • Contrasting search features across free and commercial resources
  • Necessary steps for different search types: Patentability, Freedom to Operate and Validity
  • Practical search examples and opportunities to apply these techniques

  This course is offered as in-person or virtual participation. Note: Those members who are registered for the PIUG Conference as well are given an additional $50 discount.  Virtual registrants for the course will be sent a link for the course within one week prior to the start.

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• Teach Patents to Speak Your Company’s Tech Language: Best Practices for Using Custom Fields

  • Start
    29 Jan 2025
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2027
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    370

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  PIUG announces a FREE webinar scheduled for January 29, 2025 11 AM ET for all paid PIUG members.

  Presenter:       Andrew Klein, Principal Solution Consultant at Minesoft

  The patent literature is an invaluable resource for understanding technology landscapes and gaining insight into competitors. However, it has also traditionally proven difficult to organize, analyze, and present that “speaks” to people who aren’t patent information professionals.  One strategy for overcoming this difficulty is utilizing custom fields, a feature in many patent research platforms, to overlay a company-specific taxonomy on the standard patent data available. In this session, Andrew Klein, Principal Solution Consultant at Minesoft, will present best practices for using custom fields to make several common patent intelligence workflows easier:

  ·         Identifying prior art for patentability

  ·         Filtering large datasets

  ·         Monitoring/alerting on technologies of interest

  ·         Creating visualizations for analyzing patent data by technology

  Given the cost of the webinar and the potential savings to your patent searching practice, how can you not attend this remarkable event?

  Register HERE to watch the live webinar on January 29,^, 2025 – 11 AM ET

  The session will be recorded and available on demand at  PIUG Education and Training

  Please share this announcement with your colleagues and post to your professional association calendars.

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• Essential Patent Search Techniques

  • Start
    19 Feb 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    28 Feb 2030
  •  
    11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Instructor:  John Zabilski

  Learn essential information and techniques to effectively search for patent information.

  • Understanding database coverage, content and structure
  • Balancing precision versus recall
  • Comparing search types including bibliographic, keyword, classification, citation, full-text and indexed content
  • Building comprehensive search statements using search operators and command language techniques including nesting, truncation, wildcards and stemming
  • Contrasting search features across free and commercial resources
  • Considering necessary steps for different search types: Patentability, Freedom to Operate and Validity
  • Practical search example applying these techniques

  NOTE:  Before registering for any of the individual webinars , please consider registering for the complete series to save money.  Register for the Series HERE!

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• PIUG Course - Essential Techniques for Finding Freedom-to-Operate (FTO)

  • Start
    04 May 2025
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    3:00 PM
  • End
    01 Jan 2030
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    87

  Registration is closed

  INSTRUCTOR: John Zabilski Chair, PIUG Education & Training Committee

  Registered US Patent Agent (No. 59,626)

  Qualified Patent Information Professional (No. 20190010100257)

  It’s known by several names including Freedom to Practice or a clearance search. Without Freedom to Operate you may not be able to make, use or sell your invention. An FTO search looks for in-force patents in a geographic area of interest to avoid potential infringement. Discover what is required to complete a comprehensive search and identify what is still legally protected to better inform business decisions. This course provides understanding of the fundamental concepts of FTO, identifies essential resources for finding FTO and includes search examples demonstrating suggested approaches for FTO searches. Also learn how to utilize freely accessible resources to determine what is legally in-force such as INPADOC and national patent office registers as well as vendor-based alternatives. Whether you are new to performing FTO searches or more experienced, this course provides focused techniques that save your time and make you more effective in achieving accurate results.

  This course is offered as a virtual course for those not attending the PIUG 2025 Annual  Conference in-person or participating as a virtual registrant of the conference.

  Available live in-person/virtually online or access on-demand afterwards!

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• PIUG 2026 Joint Annual and Biotech Conference

  • Start
    19 May 2026
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    9:00 PM
  • End
    21 May 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Convene Conference Center, Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19103

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  PIUG 2026 Joint Annual and Biotech Conference

  Tuesday, May 19 - Thursday, May 21, 2026

  Convene Conference Center

  Two Commerce Square

  2001 Market Street

  Philadelphia, PA 19103

  As papers are submitted and the program develops, be sure to check for updates to the preliminary program and other related conference webpages.

  The plenary sessions will begin after a Welcome Reception and run through through late Thursday afternoon, but you’ll have many great opportunities to learn and connect throughout the conference. More details will be posted later as the program is developed.

  • Tuesday, May 19: Welcome Reception, Plenary Sessions and Opportunities for informal dine-arounds in the evening. 
  • Wednesday, May 20: Plenary Sessions and Opportunities for informal dine-arounds in the evening. 
  • Thursday, May 21: Plenary Sessions.

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