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STN training courses free-of-charge in London. 

 

These new courses for Spring 2005 are all geared towards users who have experience of STN Basics. Attendees will have the opportunity to exercise the techniques discussed during skills practice sessions.

 

Venue: The Royal Society of Chemistry, Piccadilly, London 12/13 April

 

1. Citation Searching

Tuesday 12^th April 13.00 – 16.00

 

Find out what patents have been disclosed as prior art by the patent assigner or the examiner and what patents/literature have been used to oppose a patent application or granted patent.  What other patents have cited the same literature reference as the one you’re looking at?  STN has a wealth of cited references in its patent and literature files, and this workshop will describe the tools and techniques necessary to search and retrieve them.

 

2. Tracking Generics

Wednesday 13^th April 10.00 – 12.30

 

Competition from generic companies has never been stiffer!

Be proactive: find out what drugs will expire and when, and setup an alert to monitor them

Be reactive: Find out which drugs in your key target area are coming off patent by searching literature and conference proceedings.

 

This workshop will demonstrate techniques to monitor your competitors by searching for drug expiration dates in Inpadoc, IMSPatents and Diogenes.  The results of this search can be transferred into alerts in the business files.  Searching on target areas in the business, pipeline and regulatory databases on STN will also be covered.

 

3. Inpadoc Family and Legal Status Searching

Wednesday 13^th April 14.00 – 16.00

 

STN’s implementation of Inpadoc enables in-depth legal status searching,  such as transfer of ownership and supplementary protection certificate expiry dates. Inpadoc on STN has the advantage over public offerings with the ability to display very large families or just the members whose status has changed. Set up powerful alerts to monitor first examination reports, grants, divisionals/CIPs, refusal or withdraw of patent can be setup across the entire family, and tailor displays to show only country-specific members and their legal status updates.  Bring along your own examples to this practical session to learn how to use Inpadoc to its best strengths and advantages.

 

Please contact us stating which course(s) you would like to attend, and whether you would prefer to use STN Express or STN on the Web. Details will be sent out approximately 10 days before the date of the course.  Places are limited, and attendees will have to share PCs.

 

Lunch is not included.

 

STN Agency UK, The Royal Society of Chemistry,

Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road Cambridge CB4 0WF

 

Tel: +44 (0)1223 432110; Fax: +44 (0)1223 423623; E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Visit STN Agency UK at www.rsc.org/stn; Visit STN at www.stn-international.de/

 

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