Week 1: Inventions and Patent Eligibility
Patentability criteria for inventions
Prior Art categories
Disclosure Norms
Patent Specification – Description and Claims
Week 2: How to read a patent document - Patent Anatomy
Introduction to Patent search
Fundamentals of Patent Search
Fields for Search -Keyword Search -Classification Search – IPC, CPC, USPC, F term -Combination Search -Concept based search
Week 3: Public search databases IPO EPO USPTO Patent Scope
Subscribed databases search
Differences between public search and subscribed database search
Week 4: Types of Patent search
Patentability Search
Validity Search
Week 5: Types of Patent search
Patent Landscape Search
Clearance Search Advantages and Limitations of each type of search
Week 6: Analysis of Patent Search with illustration (examples from different technology areas)
Week 7: Patent landscape analysis
Week 8: Value of Patent Search and analysis
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