Date

Starts: 10.06.2013 at 09:00
Ends: 12.06.2013 at

Location

Vienna, Austria

Organised by

• European Patent Office

Working language(s)

English

Description

Participants will get familiar with the background, contents and use of Y classification system in order to improve their skills in retrieving patent documents or data relating to sustainable technologies.

Learning objectives: participants will understand the Y02 tagging system and be able to retrieve the tagged data in Espacenet, the European Patent Register and the Global Patent Index. They will also gain an insight into the use of PATSTAT and be able to access and interpret statistical analyses performed therewith.

Target groups

• Students and faculty
• Technology transfer officers
• Public sector and university researchers
• Policy makers
• Patent libraries
• Interested public
• Investors
• Patent attorneys
• Judges and public prosecutors
• Industry
• Industry researchers
• Business consultants and advisors
• SMEs and start-ups
• IP lawyers
• IP authorities, patent offices, civil servants, customs officials

Level of expertise

Intermediate

Medium

Classroom training

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Payment

Seminar participants are required to pay the seminar fees prior to the course, via bank transfer, credit card or deposit account. The registration  for a seminar will  be accepted as soon as the payment of the participation fee has arrived at the EPO. You will be notified of this via e-mail.

Materials

All support material and handouts will be in English. However, all our trainers and our administrative staff are trilingual and would be pleased to answer any questions or give explanations in French or German, too.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the patent systemalong with good command of English.

Registration fee

The fee for this three days seminar is 810 EUR.

The price for students is 243 EUR (only applicable if student ID is valid  over the whole seminar time period). 

The fee covers participation in the seminar and includes the participant package with seminar support material, refreshments during the seminar as well as the welcome reception and the social evening event.

Objectives

Participants will understand the Y02 tagging system and be able to retrieve the tagged data in Espacenet, the European Patent Register and the Global Patent Index. They will also gain an insight into the use of PATSTAT and be able to access and interpret statistical analyses performed therewith.

Venue directions

Directions on how to reach the EPO and hotel accomodation.

Content

 

• The background of CCMT classification
• The Background of EPO's CCMT (Y) classification
• Its strenghts and weaknesses and how to handle them
• Use of Espacenet to retrieve data
• Examples

Venue details

European Patent Office
Rennweg 12
1030 Vienna
Austria
Tel. +43-1-521-26-0

Contact

Please contact Patent Information Training at pitraining@epo.org.

Max. number of participants

20

Reference

PI03-2013

Registration deadline

Deadline for registration is over.

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