AIDB periodically organizes workshops, study days, and practical exercises on technical topics related to patent documentation. The workshops are typically led by internationally recognized professionals working in the field of patent information.

Video recordings of the workshops listed below are available to all members upon request.

2024

The Use of Classifications for Design Searches (February 28, 2024), Guido Moradei (Quaestio)

Espacenet: New Ways to Analyze Patent Publications and Their Challenges (March 28, 2024), Domenico Golzio

Upcoming:

FTO Patent Searches (May 23, 2024), Antonio Tarquini (Notarbartolo & Gervasi)

 

2023

Patent Information and Technological Innovation (March 2, 2023), Filippo Ghiraldo (BEP)

IPR, Patent Information, and Sustainability (March 30, 2023), Filippo Silipigni (Politecnico di Milano Foundation)

 

2022

Patent Families: The Potential and Challenges of Databases (February 10, 2022), Guido Moradei (Quaestio)

Blockchain & IP (March 10, 2022), Alberto Ciaramella (Intellisemantic)

Standard Essential Patents (May 19, 2022), Marco Camolese (Metroconsult), Saverio Celia (Sisvel Tech)

Prior Art Under U.S. Law: Differences from European Law (June 16, 2022), Paolo Provvisionato (Provvisionato & Co)

Statistical Analysis of Patents Using PATSTAT (July 7, 2022), Riccardo Priore (AREA Science Park/Patlib Trieste)

Designs in Databases and Patent Families (September 15, 2022), Guido Moradei (Quaestio)

AIDB for CEPIUG: Searching for Italian Patent Information (October 17–18, 2022), Guido Moradei (Quaestio), Loredana Guglielmetti (UIBM), Lidia Casciano (Studio Torta), Petra Gnemmi (freelance)

 

2021

Seminar Series on: Patent Classification Systems, Stephen Adams (Magister Ltd)

  • Review of the IPC; Methods for Identifying Marks for Use in Searches (January 28, 2021)
  • The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC); Comparison and Contrast with the IPC, Strengths and Weaknesses (February 11, 2021)
  • Japanese Patent Classification Systems; the Fi and F-Term Tools for Enhanced Retrieval (March 4, 2021)

Seminar Series on: Freedom to Operate Search & Analysis, Cambridge Information & Intellectual Property Meeting (CIIPM)

  • Fundamental (September 8–9, 2021)
  • Advanced (September 15–16, 2021)

Seminar Series on: Legal Status Information, Stephen Adams (Magister Ltd)

  • First Steps in Determining Legal Status (October 7, 2021)
  • Overview of Source Types for Legal Status Information (October 8, 2021)
  • A Deep Dive into Legal Status (October 20, 2021)
  • Interpreting Legal Status Records (October 21, 2021)

 

2020

Seminar Series on: Preparing Patent Analytics Projects and Patent Landscape Reports, Tony Trippe (Patinformatics)

  • The Linear Law of Patent Analysis, Patent Family Reductions, and Assignee Cleanups (June 11, 2020)
  • Using Pivot Tables and Microsoft Excel to Create Simple Charts, Graphs, and Tables (June 18, 2020)
  • Generating Spatial Concept Maps (July 2, 2020)
  • Producing patent landscape reports that will be read and used by senior management (July 9, 2020)

Seminar series on: Asian Patent Information, Jutta Hausser, Jürgen Mühl (European Patent Office). Only the slides from this series are available.

  • Patent information from Korea (September 10, 2020)
  • Patent information from Japan (September 24, 2020)
  • Patent information from China (October 8, 2020)

Seminar Series on: Document-Based Research, Luca Falciola (Scibilis)

  • Literature Search in PubMed (October 29, 2020)
  • Literature Search in EBI: Chembl, Uniprot, Surechembl (November 12, 2020)
  • Documentary Research on Lens.org (November 26, 2020)

Smart Approaches for Efficient Patent Searching (December 10, 2020), Andrea Davis (Bodkin IP)