Training event for patent search professionals

Search Matters is an annual event that not only showcases the EPO’s patent search strategies and techniques, but also offers an unrivalled look behind the scenes at the Office.

In 2020, Search Matters was supposed to be hold in the Hague, Netherlands, and is now proposed as a full online conference.

Search Matters 2020 will deliver its programme in the format of interactive online workshops and plenary sessions, with a special focus on disruptive technologies such as 3D printing (aka additive manufacturing), CII (computer-implemented inventions) and AI (artificial intelligence).

EPO examiners will provide an insight into how they tackle the complex task of searching the ever expanding prior art.

Further topics dealt with by the workshops on offer are:

• Advanced features in Espacenet
• Machine translation tool
• Asian prior art
• Interrelated patents and applications
• The problem-solution approach

Venue

Online conference

Registration deadline: 01 October 2020

Event language: English