Master Patent Search with Espacenet (2024)

Espacenet is a global patent database managed by the European Patent Office. It boasts of an extensive 150 million patent documents across the world from over 100 countries. It has patent data from the 19th century upto the current week!

It is a tremendous repository to validate and develop your ideas. To conduct market, technology and industry analysis. What’s more, it is free of charge and publicly available!

But Patent Search can be tricky. You need to be aware of important patent concepts to make good use of this amazing source of technology information. This course takes you step by step through the journey to master patent search. It covers:

1. Key Patent Concepts

2. Searching with Patent Numbers

3. Searching with Patent Classification

4. Keyword Search Fundamentals

5. Boolean Operators

6. Grouping

7. Proximity operators

8. Field Identifiers

9. Type I and Type II errors

10. Espacenet Advanced Search builder

11. Patent landscape and analytics with Espacenet

12. Prior art search exercises and case study

13. Prior-art search template

The course is completely hands-on! There are plenty of exercises and case studies to hammer home the concepts.

Course suitable for:

• All students and faculty to validate and develop their inventions

• All researchers and phd students to perform technology and industry analysis

• IPR professionals to learn advanced patent search concepts

The course contains 7 professionally recorded videos. Hope you enjoy the journey of patent search 🙂

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

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